108 THE MICROSCOPICAL NEWS. 
the Rialto building. His funeral is to be held at Dr. Hale’s 
church at 12-30 to-morrow afternoon.” (Our informant is con- 
fident that his age was seventy-five, not seventy-seven, as above 
stated.—Ep.) 
Mr. Stodder was an occasional contributor to the journals, 
writing upon stands and objectives, and upon the Diatomacee, of 
which he had a considerable knowledge. He was well known as 
business agent for Mr. Tolles, of whose death he kindly sent us 
information only a few weeks before his own.—TZhe Microscopical 
Bulletin. 
Tue Late Mr. J. H. DaLLMEYER.—The death is announced in 
his fifty-third year of Mr. John Henry Dallmeyer, optician, whose 
name has been long associated with the production of some of the 
best optical work in England, especially lenses for different branches 
of photography. In 1849 he left Germany, his native country, and 
came to England, entering the house of the late Andrew Ross, the 
founder of the well-known optician’s business bearing his name. 
Mr. Dallmeyer’s attention was at first devoted principally to the 
construction of telescopes. * * * He was specially commissioned 
to provide several of the telescopes and photographic appliances 
used by the different Government expeditions for the observation of 
the recent transit of Venus, and his telescope object-glasses are in 
high repute among the leading astronomers. For some time past 
his health has been precarious, and while taking complete repose 
from work, on the voyage to New Zealand, he died on the 30th 
of December.—Zglish Mechanic. 
ANTHRAX.—An inquest recently held at Guy’s Hospital (says 
the Lancet) serves again to direct attention to the fact which the 
wards of that institution have shown often of late years, that anthrax 
(wool-sorters’ disease) occurs occasionally among the tan-yards of 
Bermondsey. ‘The subject of the inquiry was a tanner. 
THe Late Proressor RoLieston.—The Clarendon Press, 
says the Atheneum, will shortly publish in two volumes octavo 
““ Memoirs, Addresses, and Fragments,” of the late Professor 
Rolleston, arranged and edited by Professor W. Turner, with a 
biographical memoir by Dr. E. B. Tylor. These volumes contain 
a selection of the most important essays contributed by Professor 
Rolleston to the Zransactions of various learned societies and to 
scientific journals, together with several addresses delivered before 
the British Association and other learned bodies. 
“HISTOIRE D’UN SAVANT PAR UN IGNORANT.”—Lady Claud 
Hamilton is engaged, with the assistance of Professor Tyndall, on 
a translation of the account of the life and work of M. Pasteur, 
entitled “ Histoire d’un Savant par un Ignorant.” 
