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considerable violence. Mr. Pridharn was not hurt, but Mr, 
Karkeek w r as stunned, and did not recover his senses till some 
time afterwards, when he found himself in a farm house, and 
immediately requested to be taken home. He was driven 
very slowly homewards, and on arriving at Truro, it was 
found that he had received severe bruises about the hip. 
Subsequently an abscess formed in the bruised parts, and we 
regret to state that the accident terminated fatally, though no 
danger of that kind was at first apprehended.” The editor 
adds: “In private life Mr. Karkeek was a kind, hospitable 
friend, and a good husband and father.” 
The TVest Briton says, “ Our obituary of this week 
contains a record of the death of Mr. Karkeek, of Truro, 
and we should not do justice to his memory, or to our own 
feelings, without a more extended notice of his life and 
labours, and, we may add, our lament over his early and 
much-regretted death. By his talents, application, and 
straightforward integrity, he had obtained a position of 
singular usefulness in the county 3 and by his numerous pub- 
lications, in which he applied the knowledge gathered by his 
professional studies as a veterinary surgeon to agricultural 
improvement, he has deservedly earned a much wider reputa- 
tion. For many years he was one of the editors of the 
Veterinarian , and laboured diligently to develop the principles 
by which the best agricultural stock might be produced, kept 
in a healthy state, and how their energies for labour, or their 
capabilities for feeding, might be brought out. In 1842 the 
Royal Agricultural Society of England offered a prize for the 
best essay on ‘Fat and Muscle/ This was awarded to Mr. 
Karkeek, and is printed in the fifth volume of the journal of 
that society, and may be considered a text-book on that 
difficult subject (using the authoFs own language, which he 
modestly applies to another), ‘ holding up the torch of 
science, as it were, to the agriculturists, and teaching them 
the advantages to be derived from the union of practice with 
science/ When the same society offered a prize of £ 50 for 
the best essay on ‘The Farming of Cornwall/ it was felt that 
no one was so competent to undertake the subject as Mr. 
Karkeek. This he did with his usual zeal, intelligence, and 
success, and the essay appeared in the sixth volume of the 
journal. In it he traced the progress of Cornish agriculture 
since the report of Worgans, and opened up the capabilities 
of the soil by an admirable geological map and section. A 
further valuable paper from his pen — a prize essay — appeared 
in the 1 1th volume of the same journal, on ‘The Diseases of 
Cattle and Sheep, occasioned by Mismanagement/ To the 
