OBITUARY. 
539 
NEW REGISTER OE THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY 
SURGEONS. 
We are requested to inform the profession that a new 
Register of its Members has just been completed, and can be 
had, on application to the Secretary, at No. 10, Red Lion 
Square. 
ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 
VETERINARY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 
To he Acting Veterinary Surgeons,— Edwin Thomas Chees- 
man, gent. Joseph Dulley, gent. 
London Gazette , July 16, 1858. 
2d Dragoons . — Acting Veterinary Surgeon Thornton 
Hart to be Veterinary Surgeon, vice Opie Smith, who retires 
on half-pay. 
OBITUARY. 
Died, “On the 13th instant, at his house at Great Stan- 
more, Middlesex, suddenly, Mr. Francis King, aged 54 ” — 
Times. 
We much lament to have to record the death of Mr. F. 
King, M.R.C.V.S., there being few among those who have 
passed from among us who were more deservedly respected 
or whose loss will be more deeply regretted than that of our 
friend and companion. 
Mr. King held for some time the office of Treasurer to the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. He was also an 
active member of the original Committee for the obtainment 
of the Charter of Incorporation, and subsequently became a 
member of the Council, and was afterwards chosen one of 
the Vice-Presidents of the College. 
His Diploma bears date January 25, 1825. 
To this we have to add the deaths of Mr. Samuel Wilson, 
and Mr. Matthew Lucas, both of Liverpool. The former 
