700 Obituary. 



He did not rush into print, and his observations were confirmed 

 over and over again before they were published. How different 

 from much of the trumpery " original research " of the present day ! 

 In 1880 Dallinger was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal 

 Society, and shortly after received an unsolicited grant of £100 

 to assist him in his researches. 



Dr. Dallinger joined the Society in 1871, and was President in 

 1884-5-6-7, and it was in his Presidential Addresses that he 

 communicated many of the important and interesting results of 

 his observations on minute organisms. But no one can read these 

 addresses without feeling how impressed he was with the " brass 

 and glass " side of the observations. 



His interest in the Society was always, even to the end, very 

 great, and he was rarely absent from its meetings until the last 

 few years of his life. In order to attend these meetings he often 

 travelled hundreds of miles. Thus when President he was Principal 

 of Wesley College, and during this period he usually travelled 

 back to Sheffield by the night mail after a meeting, in order to 

 undertake his duties at the College next morning : a convincing 

 example of conscientiousness and devotion to duty. 



There will be found very few men who, after holding the 

 supreme office, are willing to accept a subordinate position, as 

 Dallinger did when he allowed himself to be nominated Joint- 

 Secretary of the Society ; this condescension was of great service, as 

 his eminent name was in itself a pillar of strength. For some 

 years past his health was very precarious, and his attendance at 

 the Meetings so infrequent, that most of the more recently elected 

 Fellows knew him only by his reputation. 



In addition to being elected F.E.S. in 1850, Dr. Dallinger re- 

 ceived the following distinctions : LL.D. from Victoria University in 

 1884, D.Sc. from Dublin in 1892, and D.C.L. from Durham in 1896. 

 In 1890, 1891, 1892 he was president of the Quekett Microscopical 

 Club. In 1896 he published his well-known "Fernley Lecture" 

 on " The Creator, and what we may know about Creation " ; also 

 " Life Histories and their Lessons ; a Defence of the Uniformity 

 and Stability of Vital Processes as controlled by the Laws of 

 Evolution." He frequently contributed scientific articles to the 

 "Wesleyan Methodist Magazine"; but the work by which he is 

 best known to microscopists all over the world is his edition of 

 Carpenter on " The Microscope and its Pievelations," published 

 in 1891 and 1901, being the 7th and 8th editions of the original 

 work. In both of these he showed how conversant he was with 

 Brass and Glass and Biological sides of the Microscope. 



In conclusion, we would recall the prescient and prophetic 

 words of his address in 1888 : * 



* See this Journal, 1888, p. 177. 



