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OBITUARY. 
re-elected Treasurer, he read a paper on “ Azoturia,” the first 
installment of which was printed in the April Review, and 
which is completed in this number. One of the last acts which 
he performed was the revision of our proofs of this article, and,, 
as he explained in a private letter, it is a subject to which he has 
devoted many years of study, and the article itself well betrays 
his earnest application. 
The profession can ill afford to lose so valuable a member,, 
and to his bereaved family, consisting of a widow and ten chil- 
‘ dren, their heartfelt sympathy is extended. He was a brother 
of Walter R. Hart, D. V. S., a graduate of the American Veter^ 
inary College, who is also a prominent practitioner and associa¬ 
tion worker. 
Lucian T. Belu, M. D., V. S. 
The death of this well-known veterinarian occurred at his 
residence, 331 Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., on Friday 
morning, April 23d. He was born near Staunton, Virginia, 
May 18, 1850, and consequently would have been 47 years old 
this month. He received his early education in the schools of 
his native county, and when nineteen years of age entered the 
old New York College of Veterinary Surgeons, then located at 
205 Lexington Avenue. There was at that time a class of four 
students and but few graduated veterinary surgeons in the 
United States. He received his degree in 1871, before he had 
reached his majority, and returned to his native State; but 
there was but little appreciation of veterinary medicine in the 
South in those days, and he soon found his way back to New 
York City, locating in the Yorkville section. When the Amer¬ 
ican Veterinary College was established in 1875 he became 
identified with it and lectured and quizzed in various branches, 
taking his second diploma there in 1876, as did many of the 
former graduates of the old college. About this time he re¬ 
moved to Brooklyn, where he has practiced ever since, being, 
we think, the oldest graduated practitioner in that city at the 
time of his death. He was always persistent in his quest for 
knowledge, and to better prepare himself for his veterinary 
career he entered the Long Island Medical College, graduating 
in 1880. When the Federal Government, through General 
Patrick, inaugurated the first crusade against contagious pleuro¬ 
pneumonia of cattle, about 1876, Dr. Bell was one of his most 
trusted lieutenants, and when the present Bureau of Animal 
Industry began operations against the same disease in 1887 he 
