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OBITUARY. 
We have to record the death of Mr. Augustus Crook, M.R.C.V.S., 
Bungay, Suffolk. His diploma bears date May 21st, 1845. 
To this we regret to add the death of Mr. John Keast Lord, 
M.R.C.V.S., the Manager of the Brighton Aquarium. Mr. Lord, 
who was a native of Tavistock, entered the College as a pupil in 
1842, and obtained his diploma in May, 1844. Subsequently he 
commenced practice in Tavistock, where, however, he only continued 
a short time. “ He afterwards joined the army, and served in the 
Crimean war, and took part in the battle of Balaclava. 
“ Mr. Lord seems to have always entertained an intense love for 
the study of natural history; and at the close of the Russian cam¬ 
paign he quitted the army for a field in every way more congenial 
to his tastes. He now devoted himself to the study of nature in 
good earnest, and spent some time in Vancouver Island. The 
results of his labours were afterwards given to the world in ‘ The 
Naturalist in Vancouver Islandand he subsequently published, 
among other works, c The Naturalist on the Amazons.’ 
“ Mr. Lord afterwards served on the North American Boundary 
Commission, and later on was engaged by the Viceroy of Egypt to 
report upon certain characteristics of that country. It was from 
Egypt, we believe, that he was called by the directors of the Aquarium 
to take the appointment he can now, unhappily, no longer fill, and 
for which he was so peculiarly fitted.” 
Mr. Lord had only attained the fifty-fifth year of his age. He 
was unmarried, and leaves an only brother, Mr. W. Barry Lord, 
who is also a member of the profession, and now on half pay as an 
army veterinary surgeon. 
Death of Dit. Cabal. 
The Paris correspondent of the Medical Times says that Dr. Cabal, 
recently appointed to the Veterinary School at Alfort, has come by his 
death in a most melancholy manner. His house, which is situated on 
the banks of the Seine, was inundated a few days ago, and he was 
obliged, in consequence, to leave it and take shelter elsewhere. Being 
desirous, however, to save some important papers he had left behind 
(among which was one on animal magnetism, which he intended to 
read before the next meeting of the Academy of Sciences), he re¬ 
turned in a boat to fetch them, taking with him his son, a lad of 17, 
and a boatman. The current was so strong that they were unable 
to pull against it, and when about the middle of the river the boat 
upset. The doctor disappeared almost immediately, and the son, 
who was a good swimmer, struggled for some time and then went 
down. The boatman, however, finding that any effort on his part 
to save his drowning companions would be of no avail, held on to 
the boat, which was soon driven to the shore. This sad event has 
caused a great sensation at Alfort, and his death is looked upon as a 
great loss to the Veterinary School, and to the scientific world at large. 
