OBITUARY. 
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Messrs. Jones, Withers, and the Secretary were named 
as the Committee of Supervision of this and the preceding 
meeting, and the proceedings terminated. 
John Jones, 
Samuel H. Withers, 
E. N. Gabriel. 
MISCELLANEA. 
PAPER CONTAINING ARSENIC. 
In these days, when the toxicologist is so frequently 
puzzled to know how the poison which his skill has detected 
has got into the organism, it may be not unimportant to 
know that a great quantity of the blotting-paper, which is 
frequently used for filtering, contains arsenic in considerable 
quantity. Yohl has found, in a grey kind of blotting-paper, 
upon an average, one grain of arsenic, five sixths of a grain 
of oxide of copper, and one grain and a quarter of oxide of 
lead per sheet. He attributes the presence of these poison- 
ous substances to the employment, in the manufacture of this 
kind of paper, of old carpet which had been dyed with 
Schweinfurt green, & c . — Reports of the Rr ogress of Chemisty, 
by W. Bastich , Esq., in the c Lancet .’ 
OBITUARY. 
Died, at Scutari, on the 7th March, Alfred H. Cherry, Esq., 
aet. 3 C 2, Veterinary Surgeon 1st Royal Dragoons, youngest 
son of the late Frederick C. Cherry, Esq , Principal Vete- 
rinary Surgeon to the Army. 
Mr. Cherry entered early in life as a student at the Borough 
hospitals, where he availed himself of the advantages these 
noble institutions afford for acquiring medical knowledge. 
In 1843, he proceeded to Edinburgh to study the Veterinary 
Art under Professor Dick, where he quickly obtained his 
diploma. He returned to London to finish his medical edu- 
cation at St. Thomas’s, where he dressed under Mr. Green, 
with a view to becoming a member of the Royal College of 
Surgeons. A commission, however, awaited him as vete- 
rinary surgeon to Her Majesty’s 16th regiment of Lancers, 
and in September, 1846, he joined the quarters of his regi- 
ment at Canterbury. He served for several years in Ireland, 
