THE LATE Mil. JOHN FIELD. 35 
Wliat a noble thing would be a concours for the election of this 
third professor! 
How shall he be paidl How! Why, by increasing the ad¬ 
mission fee of the student to that below which it ought never to 
have sunk—by wiping away, ere it be too late, the indelible dis¬ 
grace of cheap and inefficient education, under which the College 
must otherwise inevitably labour—by demanding the medium fee 
of thirty guineas, little enough for the advantages the pupil would 
gain, and leaving something for other persons and other things. 
Y. 
THE LATE MR. JOHN FIELD. 
“ The loss of our friends impresses upon us hourly the necessity of our own 
departure.” 
In the prime and vigour of manhood, in the flower of his days, 
and, until within but a few days of his death, in the enjoyment of 
full health, died on Saturday evening, the 14th ult., at nine o’clock, 
John Field. On the very same evening, only a fortnight before, was 
he sitting at the head of his own table, surrounded by a score of 
friends, whom he was in his fullest spirits cheering and treating 
with that unaffected kindliness and hospitality for which every 
one who enjoyed his acquaintance knew him to be so conspicuous. 
He had been complaining a little before this occasion; and subse¬ 
quently to it, on complaining again, had been advised to keep 
quiet and in-doors, and particularly as the weather was so rainy and 
unfavourable. He, however, urged by business, exposed himself 
again one very wet day, and came home feeling very unwell at 
night. He took a warm bath, and went to bed: this was on the 
evening of the 4th. Next morning he was worse: he continued 
in bed—that bed he never again quitted. 
His disorder was low fever, attended with strange mental dis¬ 
turbance. From the very first, poor John Field had a presension 
that he should not recover, and so fixed was this sad presage in 
his mind, that no power was able to remove it—a presension which 
in his case proved, alas! but too true, although the writer of this 
obituary has had an instance in his own family in which a happy 
result followed the like impression. 
The death of John Field will prove a serious loss to a large 
circle of private friends and relations, to the veterinary profession, 
to the public at large. Not many years ago he succeeded his 
