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OBITUARY. 
Died, a short time since, at his residence in London, John 
Burton Martin, M.R.C.V.S., late of Bakewell. His diploma 
bears date May 7th, 1836. 
Professor Delafond. 
It is with the deepest regret that we have to announce the 
death of Professor Delafond, which causes a great and deep- 
felt loss to science, and to the veterinary profession at large, 
There is hardly a veterinary surgeon, however limited his 
library, who does not possess some of his numerous works, 
which are a testimony to his untiring labour and researches 
on every scientific ^subject, and of his veterinary erudition, 
which is unfortunately very rare. 
All those who have attended his lectures well knowhow in¬ 
structive they were, and how much his hearers were benefited 
by the peculiar talent he had in elucidating his subject. His 
funeral took place on the 17th of December, and was attended 
by a great concourse of friends, as well as the representatives 
of all the scientific societies of which he was a member, also 
a great number of the civil and military members of the vete¬ 
rinary profession. Funeral orations, in which were briefly 
traced the arduous labours of the director of the Alfort School, 
were pronounced by M.M. Renault, Magne, Bouley, the 
Mayor of the commune of Maison-Alfort, and last, not least, 
one by a student of the school. This last discourse proved how 
much M. Delafond was beloved by those who pursued their 
studies under his direction. The orations will no doubt be 
published in the Recueil de Medecine Veterinaire, and we 
shall hasten to reproduce in the Clinsque, all we can to the 
memory of one who has rendered such great services to vete¬ 
rinary medicine, and who, no doubt, would still have rendered 
many more, as his death may be considered premature, he 
being only fifty-six years old .—Clinique Veterinaire, Dec., 1861. 
