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Army Veterinary Department
The Veterinary journal.
66 ~rmy
fttttrfullry i3epllrtmtllt. Gazette, ;\Iay 29th.
Inspecting '-eterinary Surgeon Charles Steel to be placed on retired pay. Veterina ry Su"rgeon (F irst Class) John Anderson to be Inspecting Yeterinary Surgeon, 7Ji ce Charles Steel, retired. In his final despatch to the Secretary of State for War, in alluding to the services of the different corps and departments under his command in the Suakin Field Force, Lieutenant General Sir Gerald Graham, K.C.B., mentions that" the Yeterinary Department was well managed and gave satisfaction. " Veterinary Surgeons E. E. Bennett, A. Jones, c. J . Gillard, and J. Baldock have been il1l'alided to England from the Soudan. The la st-named officer was so seriously ill from heat exhaustion, that on arrival at Portsmouth he had to be tr8nsferred to the Royal :\Iilitary Hospital at Netley. Veterinary Surgeons Gladstone, Griffiths, Dundon, Smith (S. M.), and T aylor have also been in hospital during th e campaign. Yeterina ry Surgeon \ Villows, who accompanied the Australian contingent to Suakin, has also been ill at tha t place. Veterinary Surgeons Aitken and Hagger have arri ved in England from Suakin in charge of the horses of the 5th Lancers and 20th Hussars. The Principal '-eterinary Surgeon had the honour of being invited to, and was present at, the State Dinner given by the :i\1arquis of H a rtington, Secretary of State for War, at Devonshire House, on the Queen's birthday. At the Levee held by th e Prince of \ Vales at St. James's, on iMay 9th, First Class Veterinary Surgeon J. B. 'v. Skoulding was presented by the Adjutant-General, Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., K.c.H.
Melchior Guzzoni, Professor of Sepicial Pathobgy and Clinical Director in the Milan Veterinary School, in February last, after a short illness, aged forty-one. C. Neuschild, Professor of Fa rriery in the Dresden Veterinary School, also died recently. The dea th is also announced of Dr. Karl v. Siebold, Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy in the University of Munich, whose name is well known to h clminthologists in connection with the natural history of tape-worms. The demise is reported of William Roberts, late Farrier-Major of the 4th Hussars, and one of the Balac1ava Six Hundred. He died at Nottingham, aged fifty-three.
66 ~rmy
fttttrfullry i3epllrtmtllt. Gazette, ;\Iay 29th.
Inspecting '-eterinary Surgeon Charles Steel to be placed on retired pay. Veterina ry Su"rgeon (F irst Class) John Anderson to be Inspecting Yeterinary Surgeon, 7Ji ce Charles Steel, retired. In his final despatch to the Secretary of State for War, in alluding to the services of the different corps and departments under his command in the Suakin Field Force, Lieutenant General Sir Gerald Graham, K.C.B., mentions that" the Yeterinary Department was well managed and gave satisfaction. " Veterinary Surgeons E. E. Bennett, A. Jones, c. J . Gillard, and J. Baldock have been il1l'alided to England from the Soudan. The la st-named officer was so seriously ill from heat exhaustion, that on arrival at Portsmouth he had to be tr8nsferred to the Royal :\Iilitary Hospital at Netley. Veterinary Surgeons Gladstone, Griffiths, Dundon, Smith (S. M.), and T aylor have also been in hospital during th e campaign. Yeterina ry Surgeon \ Villows, who accompanied the Australian contingent to Suakin, has also been ill at tha t place. Veterinary Surgeons Aitken and Hagger have arri ved in England from Suakin in charge of the horses of the 5th Lancers and 20th Hussars. The Principal '-eterinary Surgeon had the honour of being invited to, and was present at, the State Dinner given by the :i\1arquis of H a rtington, Secretary of State for War, at Devonshire House, on the Queen's birthday. At the Levee held by th e Prince of \ Vales at St. James's, on iMay 9th, First Class Veterinary Surgeon J. B. 'v. Skoulding was presented by the Adjutant-General, Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., K.c.H.
Melchior Guzzoni, Professor of Sepicial Pathobgy and Clinical Director in the Milan Veterinary School, in February last, after a short illness, aged forty-one. C. Neuschild, Professor of Fa rriery in the Dresden Veterinary School, also died recently. The dea th is also announced of Dr. Karl v. Siebold, Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy in the University of Munich, whose name is well known to h clminthologists in connection with the natural history of tape-worms. The demise is reported of William Roberts, late Farrier-Major of the 4th Hussars, and one of the Balac1ava Six Hundred. He died at Nottingham, aged fifty-three.