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'''Change of Duties'''<br> There is a British Library catalogue entry '''IOR/F/4/661/18358 Mar 1821''' which appears to be in respect of Bengal: Appointment of J.T. Hodgson as Veterinary Surgeon to the Governor General's Body Guard - he is to select and train eight Assistant Apothecaries as Veterinary Surgeons for the Light Cavalry Regiments.
<br>''The New Annual Bengal Directory and Calcutta Kalendar'', available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, for the year 1823 has a listing on page 76 of the Army List, computer page 221, of "Assistant Apothecaries, Veterinary Students" at Ballygunge, Calcutta . For the year 1824 three of these students are shown as Sub -Assistant Veterinary Surgeons.<br>An advice from Fort William dated April 12, 1827 advised that following the decision to appoint regularly educated Veterinary Surgeons, Sub -assistant Veterinary Surgeons were to be given the choice of taking their discharge, or of entering the subordinate branch of the medical staff.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=PYcEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR111 ''Naval and Military Magazine Volume 3''], 1828, page cxi of "Naval and Military Miscellany"</ref> ===Uniforms===
*This [http://books.google.com/books?id=d22WUEmG49IC&pg=PA46-IA5 link]<ref>
[http://books.google.com/books?id=d22WUEmG49IC&pg=PA46-IA5 ''Poor relations: the making of a Eurasian community in British India, 1773-1833''], page 46, image 5, by Christopher Hawes 1996 Google Books</ref> shows a drawing of an Apothecary, First Class, c 1840
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044088755111?urlappend=%3Bseq=440 1849 ''Scott and Co.'s Bengal Directory and Register ''], page 396
**The Fibiwiki page [[Directories online]] has a number of Lists of Apothecaries which may be viewed online in publications on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. Those noted include:
::''Bengal Directory and Annual Register'' and ''Bengal and Agra Directory and Annual Register'' for most of the years: 1835, 18391823-1841, 1843, 1845-1846, 1848-1849, 1851and 1855 . Other volumes may also include Lists.
*Madras: ''Madras Quarterly Journal Of Medical Science'' (search within these volumes for ”warrant officers” or more generally for “medical warrant officers”):
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=ahe1AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PR17 Madras at 1 October 1860] (Page 17 of appendix at end of book)
