OBITUARY. 
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cess of the Veterinary College, an institution of such permanent benefit 
to the interests of the public. 
(Signed) “ Joseph Henry Green. 
“ John Ayrton Paris. 
“ Enw. Stanley. 
“ Rob. Liston. 
“Rich. Bright. 
“Bransby B. Cooper. 
“March 20th, 1844/’ 
At the first meeting of the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons in April, it was resolved “ that a mixed temporary board be 
appointed to examine the pupils attending the Royal Veterinary .College 
of London, and the Veterinary College of Edinburgh, who now are, or 
who, between this and the first day of October next, may be ready for 
examination.” 
Mr. Green, in common with his late colleagues, was invited to take 
part in the duties of this temporary court, a request to which lie and they, 
with one exception, Dr. Paris, having been elected President of the Royal 
College of Physicians, had determined to retire altogether as an examiner, 
most readily assented. On the assembling of the Court, Mr. Green was 
unanimously chosen its chairman, a post he continued to occupy till the 
formation of a permanent board, when, having succeeded in assisting 
the body corporate through a most critical period of its existence, he 
tendered his resignation, receiving the thanks of the Council for his 
distinguished and eminently useful services. 
The death of Mr. Green, although at last sudden, was not altogether 
unexpected; for he had been labouring for some months under a 
severe attack of gout, complicated with disease of the heart, from 
which it was hoped, by the kind and skilful treatment of Dr. Brinton, 
his attached friend and physician, he had recovered. This gentleman 
had suggested the resignation of several offices held by the deceased, 
in order that, by affording rest, so valuable a life might be prolonged 
for some time, and he had so far recovered as to be able to visit 
his sitting-room, when on Sunday last he was suddenly seized with his 
fatal illness, which carried him off in his seventy-second year. He leaves 
a widow and a large circle of friends to deplore one of the greatest 
losses which the medical profession has sustained for many years. 
Thus one after another goeth hence, obeying the irrevocable decree. 
Death has been designated “Nature’s signal for retreat,” and’twould 
be well for us to remember the epitaph of the Roman captive, “ Non 
omnis moriar,” for soon we too must shuffle off this mortal coil, and some 
even now may feel their “ mud-wall cottage” shake. May it be ours when 
the summons comes to be ready to enter the portals of the grave as 
peacefully as one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies 
down to pleasant dreams. 
To sleep ! perchance to dream ;—ay, there's the rub ; 
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, 
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, 
Must give us pause. 
[We are indebted to The Times for that portion of the Obituary of 
the late Mr. Green which does not relate to his connection with the 
Veterinary College.] 
