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OBITUARY. 
banded in 1800, when he received from Colonel Villiers a 
high testimony to his ability and diligence, and the very 
great advantage the service had derived from his having been 
appointed. 
From this time, until 1804, he was unemployed, when he 
was appointed to the Ordnance in Ireland, in which he served 
until 1822, when he went on half-pay. He entered the 
regiment again in 1838, and went to Canada, from whence 
he returned in 1844, and served in Ireland and in England 
until 3 838, when he again retired on half-pay. He was 
President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for 
the year 1836, and for several years was an active member 
of the Council of that body. 
Mr. Stockley re-organized the Veterinary Museum at Wool¬ 
wich, and also gave veterinary lectures there in 1836 and 37. 
Of an earnest and warm temperament, he spoke as he felt, 
and was ever zealous for the advancement of the profession, 
and jealous of its rights. The bold expression of his feelings, 
it may be, at times, carried him away, for his physical ener¬ 
gies were seemingly as great as in the days of his youth, the 
adventures of which he w T ould recount with much animation. 
At the close of these remarks, w T e must be permitted to 
relate an incident which we consider redounds greatly to 
his credit, while it shows the spirit by which he was actuated. 
At the breaking out of the Crimean War, when several vete¬ 
rinary surgeons were required for the Royal Artillery—of 
which he was the senior V.S.—on their applying to him for his 
recommendation to the service, he would first ask them if 
they were members of the Ro} r al College of Veterinary Sur¬ 
geons, and if their reply was in the negative, his answer was, 
“ Until you become one, I cannot entertain your applica¬ 
tion and we believe he did not. Surely here was a step 
taken in the right direction, and one which, being followed up, 
would in the end have led to only duly qualified members 
being appointed in the army ever afterwards ; “ a consum¬ 
mation devoutly to be wished,” and one which we hope to 
see ere long determined on by the authorities. 
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, in- pace: 
ERRATA IN NO. 391. 
Tiie name of Mr. William Burt, of Brighton, was accidentally omitted 
in the list, published in our last number, of those who obtained their 
diplomas from the London School. 
For George Beilly, read Charles G. H. Reilly, York. 
