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OBITUARY. 
14th Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon Henry Dawson, to be 
Veterinary Surgeon of the First Class; Dec. 4. 
Dec. 18, 1863. 
15th Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon Martin Mence, to be 
Veterinary Surgeon of the First Class; Dec. 4. 
Acting Veterinary Surgeon Thomas Cliannon has been 
permitted to resign his appointment; Dec. 18th, 1863. 
OBITUARY. 
In the Monthly Military Obituary we see the name of Veterinary 
Surgeon Mr. James Rainsford, half-pay, 4th Dragoon Guards. His 
diploma bears date Feb. 24, 1828. 
We have also to record the death, on Dec. 5th, 1863, of Mr. H. A. 
Truman, M.R.C.V.S., Old Sleaford, Lincoln, at the early age of twenty- 
eight years. His diploma bears date May 15, 1857. 
Death of Joseph Henry Green, Esq., F.R.S.—The medical pro¬ 
fession and the public generally will regret to hear of the death of this 
estimable and most learned member of that profession of which he has long 
been so bright an ornament. He died at his residence, the Mount, 
Hadley, near Barnet, on Sunday evening, the 13th inst. To the Council 
of Medical Education and Registration, of which he was president, and 
especially to that of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, of which 
he had been twice president, as well as a most active member, the loss 
will be irreparable. The deceased was an only child of wealthy parents, 
from whom he received a first-class elementary education, and as a rare 
instance of maternal solicitude it deserves to be mentioned that when 
sufficiently advanced in his studies, his mother (the sister of the cele¬ 
brated Henry Cline, then the principal surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital) 
accompanied her son to Berlin, where she remained during the whole 
time he was perfecting those studies which laid the foundation of his 
great fame. He acquired his professional knowledge at St. Thomas’s 
Hospital, under the auspices of his uncle, Mr. Cline, and was admitted a 
member of the Royal College of Surgeons on the 1st of December, 1815, 
having for two years previously acted as demonstrator, a sure proof of 
his proficiency as an anatomist; and so creditably were the duties at¬ 
tached to this office performed by him, that in 1818 he joined Mr., afier- 
wards Sir Astley Cooper, as joint lecturer on anatomy and physiology. 
In 1820, he succeeded the younger Cline as surgeon’to St. Thomas’s 
Hospital, and with Sir Astley Cooper then delivered lectures on surgery 
and pathology. As an operative surgeon, he was unequalled in the skill 
with which he performed that for lithotomy, having in 1827 operated in 
forty cases, and lost only one patient; this success created a great sensa¬ 
tion at the time, as it is unequalled in any country, and in any other 
person’s hands. In 1830 he was appointed to the professorship of surgery 
in King’s College, of which institution he was at the time of his death a 
member of council. In 1831 he wrote a pamphlet called ‘Distinction 
