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VETERINARY OBITUARY, 
Wherever the members of tire veterinary profession are scattered , 
there is not one to whom the memory of Dr. George Pearson is 
not dear. 
He was bom in 1751, and descended from a most respectable 
family near Rotherham, and from which he inherited consider¬ 
able landed property. He studied at Edinburgh and Leyden, 
and, having obtained his degree, settled in London. He was 
nearly fifty years physician to St. George’s Hospital, and almost 
forty a member of the Royal Society. Having become a lecturer 
on chemistry, the materia medica, and therapeutics, he kindly 
gave gratuitous admission to the pupils of the Veterinary College; 
and there were no lectures on which they attended so punctually, 
with so much delight, and with so great improvement. There 
was a peculiarity in his manner of lecturing, sometimes, perhaps, 
exciting a smile, but amply redeemed by abundance of important 
matter, clearness of arrangement and expression, the energy of a 
mind full of its subject, and desirous to communicate instruction; 
and these occasionally relieved by a quaintness of humour pecu¬ 
liarly his own, and perfectly irresistible. When the youngster 
who was not accustomed to him, after waiting five or ten minutes 
beyond the time, saw him enter the lecture-room, with his shirt 
collar and the knees of his breeches unbuttoned, and his stock¬ 
ings half way down his legs, and his face and hands guiltless of 
ablation, and his hair innocent of the comb; and the moment he 
had entered the door, and being behind some of us, stooping 
down to arrange his lower habiliments, and with his head almost 
to the ground commencing his lecture, and often suffering several 
minutes to elapse before he quitted this situation; and then, when 
every thing was set right, advancing towards the centre of the 
room, talking all the while, and that appropriately and well, and, 
still talking, beginning to shake one bottle and examine another 
mixture, and add to another solution, and read one memorandum, 
and examine the superscription of some letter, and then, suddenly 
throwing his spectacles high on his forehead, or holding them 
in one hand, and placing the other in the waistband of his 
breeches, which knew no braces, and his eyes fixed on vacancy, 
and repeating the latter part of his last sentence at least a dozen 
times, and then quietly pursuing his subject as if no interruption 
had occurred : when this scene was acted, as it frequently was, a 
smile would irresistibly steal over the countenance. Presently, 
however, when all was arranged, and he began to throw himself 
into his subject, and gave so logical, and yet so simple, so erudite 
and comprehensive, and yet so perfectly natural and consistent 
and intelligible a view of the matter, respect speedily succeeded 
to a feeling that might have bordered on ridicule. 
