OBITUARY. 
Death of Professor Quekett, F.R.S.—This eminent 
member of the medical profession died on the 20th inst., at 
Pangbourne, Berkshire. The deceased was Professor of His¬ 
tology in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and Cu¬ 
rator of the Hunterian Museum, having succeeded Professor 
Owen in 1856, on that gentleman’s appointment as chief of the 
Natural History Department of the British Museum. Mr. 
John T. Quekett was born at Langport, in Somersetshire, in 
1815. He commenced his professional studies at the London 
Hospital, in the medical school of which institution his brother, 
the late Mr. E. J. Quekett, was Lecturer on Botany. Having 
passed his examination at the College of Surgeons in April, 
1840, he competed for and obtained, in the following June, one 
of the Studentships in Anatomy at the College ; and, in 1843, 
was appointed Assistant-Curator of the Hunterian Museum. 
The deceased was a Fellow of the Royal and Linnean Societies. 
He took an active part in the formation of the Microscopical 
Society, and contributed many valuable papers to its 4 Trans¬ 
actions besides which he was the author of the following 
works :— 4 Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope, 
including the different Methods of Preparing and Examining 
Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Substances;’ and 4 Lectures 
on Histology, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons.’ 
Although known for his microscopical researches, Professor 
Quekett had devoted himself very successfully to the obser¬ 
vation of facts throughout the whole field of natural history 
science.— Lancet , Aug. 'Mith, 1861. 
Died recently at Melbourne, Australia, Robert Wordie, 
M.R.C.V.S., tet. 36. His diploma bears date April 22d, 
1845. 
Also, at Dairy, N. R., William Walker, M.R.C.V.S., aet. 
35. IT is diploma bears date April 23d, 1845. 
It is a singular circumstance that we should have to record 
in the same' number, the deaths of two members of the pro¬ 
fession, both pupils at the Edinburgh College, who were so 
nearly of the same age, and who passed their examination 
within a dav of each other. 
ERRATUM. 
We are requested by the Secretary to the Scottish Board 
of Examiners to correct a mistake which occurred in our 
June number, p. 366, in giving the names of those who had 
passed the examination of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons. Instead of D. McMeechan , it should have been 
Duncan M.cNab McEachran , Campbeltown, Argyleshire. 
