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ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 
War Office. 
6th Dragoon Guards.—Veterinary Surgeon First Class F. F. 
Collins, from 1st Dragoons, to be Veterinary Surgeon, vice W. Hall, 
who exchanges. 
Ist Dragoons.—Veterinary Surgeon, W. Hall, from 6th Dragoon 
Guards, to be Veterinary Surgeon, vice Veterinary Surgeon First 
Class F. F. Collins, who exchanges .—London Gazette^ Oct. 19th. 
MISCELLANEA. 
AMERICAN CHEESE. 
The manufacture of cheese is carried on very extensively in New 
York, Ohio, Vermont, Massachusetts, Illinois, Wisconsin, and 
Michigan, and the returns from 224 factories in those States show 
that their aggregate product in 1869, ending August Ist, was 
179,014 boxes, each weighing on an average 6434‘-pounds. The 
daily make of these 224 factories is 4758 boxes, or an average of 21 
boxes each. It is estimated that there are, in the United States and 
Canada, 1000 cheese factories, which produce 117,250 boxes a week 
in the busiest times, but as the season advances the yield gradually 
falls off about 2000 boxes w'eekly. 
OBITUARY. 
We have to record the death of Mr. Josiah Nice, late of London. 
Diploma dated July 16, 1825. 
Also of Mr. Thomas M. Leech, of Bakewell, Derbyshire ; diploma 
dated May 15, 1844. 
We have likewise been informed of the death of Mr. James Tennant 
Crossford, Lanak, and Mr. William Nicholson, late of Liverpool, 
which took place a short time since. The diploma of the former 
bears date July 19, 1825, and that of the latter, April 25, 1865. 
ERRATA. 
Page 728, line 2(i,for “Barb. Aloes oiij,” read 
„ „ „ 33,ybr “ fluor.,” read “ Fleming’s.” 
„ 729 „ 17,/or “ twisting,” “bursting.” 
„ „ „ 21,/or “Zinzib. 3ij,” read “5ij.” 
