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see and define properly ; and, iu liis anxiety to give his investiga- 

 tions every advantage that patience and skill could afford, he 

 studied the optical construction of the instrument, and the most 

 advantageous methods of its illumination and management, until 

 he became extremely skilful in its use and a great authority upon 

 these subjects, in \vhich he took a deep interest, it Avas probably 

 this which led him to edit the 7th and 8th editions, published 

 respectively in 1891 and 1901, of Dr. W. B. Carpenter's "The 

 Microscope and its revelations." For the 1891 edition Dalhnger 

 entirely re-wrote the \a hole of the first seven chapters, being the 

 part treating of the instrument itself and the preparation of 

 objects for examination by its means, and the same portion was 

 almost entirely rewritten for the 1901 edition. It is characteristic 

 of the patient and untiring nature of the man that, during the 

 transit of part of these manuscripts to the printer, an accident 

 happened to the box and a considerable portion of the manuscript 

 was lost : Dallinger at once quietly set to work to restore it. 



Dallinger wrote his well-known " Fernley Lecture " on " The 

 Creator and what we may know about Creation ' in 189(1 ; he 

 frequently contributed scientific articles to the ' Wesleyan 

 JNlethodist Magazine,' and he wrote some other papers of less 

 importance from time to time. 



When Dallinger was President of the Eoyal Microscopical 

 Society he was also Principal of the Wesley College, yet he rarely 

 missed a meeting of the Society, but used to travel back to Sheffield 

 by the night-mail after the meeting in order to be ready for his 

 duties at the College the next morning ; and after his term as 

 President expired he undertook the office of honorary optical 

 Secretary in order to assist the Society, and this otHce he held for 

 many years. 



Finally, Dr. Dallinger was a man who gained the affection of 

 most of those who knew him, and all those who were in any May 

 associated with liim in his scientific pursuits will remember his 

 constant readiness to help others and his anxiety to acknowledge 

 all assistance which he himself receiAod. [Albert D. Michael.] 



Felix Anton Dohkx, Foreign Member of the Linnean Society 

 since 1888, the founder of the famous Biological Station at Naples, 

 died in Munich on September 26th last, in his seventieth year. He 

 lived to see not onl}' his own Foundation grow famous, the 

 acknowledged rendezvous of biologists of all nations, but also 

 similar institutions for the prosecution of marine research spring 

 lip on the shores of almost every civilized country with a sea-board. 

 It is not too much to say that all these institutions, which are 

 BOW to be counted by the score, owe their existence largely to the 

 insight and courageous initiative of Anton Dohrn, who was the 

 first to conceive the plan of a Marine Biological Station, and to 

 prove it feasible in the face of much opposition and even ridicule. 

 It is therefore difficult to overestimate the part which he has 

 played in the great progress of marine biology during the past 



