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War Office, Feb . 3, 1860. 
2d Dragoons.—The Commission of Veterinary Surgeon, 
Thornton Hart, to be antedated to the 4th of July, 1855. 
9th Light Dragoons.—The Commission of Veterinary 
Surgeon, Frederick Bailey, to be antedated to the 1st of 
June, 1855. 
14th Light Dragoons.—The Commission of Veterinary 
Surgeon, Henry Dawson, to be antedated to the 5th ol 
July, 1855. 
Royal Artillery.—James Woodyer Callow, to be Veterinary 
Surgeon vice Cochrane, deceased. 
War Office, Feb . 14, 1860. 
Royal Artillery.—The Commission of Veterinary Surgeon, 
James Lambert, to be antedated to the 12th of October. 
MISCELLANEA. 
Professor Edmund Davy lately read a paper to the 
Royal Dublin Society, on a cement, which he obtains by 
melting together in an iron vessel, two parts by weight of 
common pitch with one part of gutta percha. It forms a 
homogeneous fluid, which is much more manageable for 
many useful purposes than gutta percha alone, and which, 
after being poured into cold water, may be easily wiped dry 
and kept for use. The cement adheres with the greatest 
tenacity to wood, stones, glass, porcelain, ivory, leather, 
parchment, paper, hair, feathers, silk, woollen, cotton, linen 
fabrics, &c. It is well adapted for aquariums. 
OBITUARY. 
Mr. James Sewell, whose death°was recorded in our last 
number, was the elder and only surviving brother of the late 
Professor Sewell. The younger, however, was before the 
elder in the profession, he having in very early life become the 
pupil of the late Professor Coleman, and obtained his diploma 
in 1799. 
The late Mr. James Sewell was born at Church House, 
Aldham, Essex, from whence he went with his father to re¬ 
side at Reading, where he remained until nearly thirty years 
of age, when, probably being influenced in part by the sue- 
