OBITUARY. 
445 
Prof. G. Colin. Prof. G. Colin, the French veterinary 
physiologist, known all over the world, died at the age of 71 in 
the town where he had retired when he left Alfort, and where 
he was born. After a scholarity at the school of Lyon, where 
he revealed his superiority as a worker, he remained in that 
school as Chef de Service (adjunct) for some time and then went 
to Alfort, where he remained until he retired. The principal 
work left by him is his treatise of “ Comparative Physiology of 
the Domestic Animals,” to-day the only one of great value in 
our medicine. Member of the Academy of Medicine of Paris, 
and of numerous societies of learning, Prof. G. Colin was a pas¬ 
sionate adversary of Pasteur, Chauveau and Bouley. His death 
takes off the last member of the old faculty of"Alfort of 35 
years ago. 
George Leich, D.V.S.—The untimely death of this veter¬ 
inarian is recorded with much regret. He had worked hard to 
obtain his education in the profession which had ever been his 
ambition, which was accomplished at the examination in 1894 
at the American Veterinary College. He located at his home 
in Brooklyn, and was building up a lucrative practice by strict 
and conscientious methods. About two months ago, while dis¬ 
secting out a cancerous tumor from a horse his scalpel turned 
and cut his hand, which subsequently became the centre of in¬ 
fection of septicaemia, resulting in his death, at his home, 1540 
Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, on August 1st. He was 34 years old, 
and leaves a widow and two children. 
W. E. Smith, D.V.S.—The death from diabetes of this 
well-known veterinarian, at his home in Sedalia, Mo., is an¬ 
nounced. He graduated from the American Veterinary College 
in 1891, and had built up a large practice, being an especially 
practical veterinarian and well liked in his community. His 
practice has fallen into the hands of Dr. W. A. Porter, of Dunks- 
burg, Mo. 
Cast of a Living Horse. —An innovation was recently 
made by the sculptor Partridge in moulding the statue of Grant, 
unveiled in Brooklyn in April, in that he made a cast from a 
living instead of a dead horse. In his experiments he began 
with a black Kentucky horse of perfect lines, and it was very 
difficult to keep the animal sufficiently still, but finally they 
hammered upon one foot as though a blacksmith were driving 
on a shoe while a cast of the opposite leg was made. 
