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obituaey. 
passed, and it is difficult to get many to believe to the contrary. I 
think you will agree with me that it is high time we had a protective 
clause, to prevent both the illegal use of the name M.R.C.V.S., and of 
the use of empty words being added thereto. 
Trusting you will kindly allow me space in your valuable Journal for 
my few remarks, I am, &c., 
To the Editors of the ‘ Veterinarian * Pro Bono Publico. 
OBITUARY. 
We deeply regret to have to record the death of Mr. Jno. Cuthbert, 
M.R.C.V.S., Leeds, on the 16th of March, aged 53. Mr. Cuthbert, who 
was a member of the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Sur¬ 
geons, obtained his diploma May 11th, 1848. 
Also, on the 16th March, at Bromley, Kent, William Frederick 
Chattell, M.R.C.V.S., from blood-poisoning, contracted in performing 
an operation. Aged 36. 
In the demise of the late John Steele, of Biggar, the profession has 
lost, with one exception, its oldest member. Few, indeed, there are, in 
any profession, of whom it can be said that for a period of half a century 
their energies were devoted to its practice and to its advancement. 
Graduating at the Edinburgh Veterinary College, John Steele obtained 
the veterinary certificate of the Highland and Agricultural Society, 
Scotland, in 1831, along with seven other students, the occasion referred 
to being the fourth examination held under the auspices of the Society. 
He also obtained the diploma of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons in the same year. At intervals for the last forty-eight, and 
continuously for the last thirty years, Mr. Steele attended the veterinary 
examination of the Highland Society, and for many years he was one of 
the most valued, and valuable, members of its examining board. Well 
versed in the nature of the diseases of all the domestic animals his 
especial forte was cattle pathology, and it was always a pleasure and a 
profit to the bystander to hear the shrewd practical questions put to the 
students by Mr. Steele and the late Mr. Aitken, of Kilmanock—one of 
his oldest friends—alternately; nothing pleasing them better than a 
plain practical answer to a plain practical question, and of them it may 
truly be said that they dealt not in catch questions or rejected a student 
if he did not know their crotchets. Beloved by his immediate relatives 
and friends, revered and honoured by his neighbours and clients, John 
Steele passed away on the 26th day of January, after much and acute 
suffering, at the ripe age of 74, and in the full possession of his in¬ 
tellectual faculties, regretting the day before his death that he would 
never again be able to attend the veterinary examination of the High¬ 
land Society. He was one of the closest friends and most ardent 
admirers of the late Professor Dick. 
ERRATA. 
In last month’s Veterinarian several typographical errors occurred in 
pages 215, 216, and 217, in the names of contributors to the Benevolent 
and Mutual Defence Society. They should be read as follows:—D. E. 
Rattee, G. H. Pyatt and Brothers, W. A. Taylor, James Martin, Richard 
Roberts, T. Aubrey, R. C. Trigger, E. H. Leach, W. Hy. McCaldon, 
Phillip Deighton, Henry Hogben, J. Osborn Hill, and J. H. Ferguson. 
