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OBITUARY. 
The jury, after a retirement of about half an hour, agreed to a 
three-fourths verdict for plaintiff, and assessed the damages at 
£5.— Argus. 
APPOINTMENTS UNDER THE CONTAGIOUS 
DISEASES (ANIMALS) ACT. 
Mr. A. C. Cope, M.R.C.Y.S., and Mr. D. Dudgeon, M.R.C.Y.S., 
have been appointed Inspectors, under the above-named Act, by 
the Lords of the Privy Council. 
ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 
War Office ; July IZrd . 
Yeterinary Department. —The following Acting Yeterinary 
Surgeons to be Yeterinary Surgeons—George Digby Whitfield, 
Charles Clayton, Charles Witney Gillard, Henry Thomson. 
To be Acting Yeterinary-Surgeons—William Alfred Crow, vice 
W. E. Blanshard, promoted; James Joseph Philips, vice Whit¬ 
field; lies Matthews, vice Clayton; John Herbert Cox, vice 
Gillard; George Joseph Robert Rayment, vice Thomson. 
OBITUARY. 
We regret to record the death of Mr. Charles Messent Baker, 
M.R.C.V.S., late of Clapham. His diploma bears date May 22nd, 
1850. 
ERRATUM IN NO. 535. 
For <c an obscene cause,” read “ an obscure cause,” p. 475, line 19. 
