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 COKKESPONDENCE. 



Who Sent Mb. Tolles' Objective to Me. Crisp? 



To the Editor of the ^Monthly Microscopical Journal.^ 



Boston, 3fay 19, 1874. 



Mr. Editoe, — I find in tlie May number of this Journal that the 

 Eev. Mr. Brakey has indulged again in his favourite pastime of 

 describing the impossible, viz, the thoughts and motives of persons 

 three thousand miles * distant across the Atlantic Ocean. One wonders 

 if his clairvoyant medium is reliable ? 



He writes, " Mr. Tolles had constructed an objective which he 

 labelled with the astonishing angle of 180', and not only constructed 

 it, but in an evil hour sold it to Mr. Crisp, little tldiiking that in so 

 doing he was selling himself into the hands of the Philistines, to be 

 shown and made sport of." 



The truth is that Mr. Tolles had little to do with the sending of 

 that objective to England. It was sent by myself of my own motion, 

 expecting that some of the Philistines would break their heads against 

 it in their " sport"; and with a special request that it might be seen by 

 the most unbelieving Philistine of the Philistines — Mr. Brakey him- 

 self! Mr. Brakey should be acquainted with the history of the 

 Philistines, and may take warning l)y their fate after they aroused 

 Samson. 



I may add that the objective was not purchased by Mr. Crisp 

 imtil after he had seen it. 



In the future Mr. Brakey should be more cautious of writing what 

 he cannot possibly know, and then he may not so often be put into 

 such " ludicrous " positions. 



Charles Stodder. 



Mb. Pillischer's Eeply to Me, Beooke. 



To the Editor of the ^Monthly Microscopical Journal.' 



8, Lower Eock Gardens, Brighton, June 19, 1874. 



Sir, — Having been indisj)osed and away from home, Mr. Charles 

 Brooke's letter in the April number of this Journal, in reply to mine 

 in the March number, has only just come to my notice. 



Being still far from well, I should willingly allow Mr. Brooke's 

 letter to pass unnoticed, but for the glaring misrepresentation it con- 

 tains, which in order to refute, I have once more to ask your favour of 

 inserting this in the next issue of your valuable Journal, after which 

 I shall consider, as far as I am concerned, this matter at an end. 



Mr. Brooke is astonished at the tone of my letter, and says : " First, 

 as to nationality : my authority was a juror at Vienna," and regrets 



* Mr. Brakey says 2000 miles. His readers may wonder if liis knowledge of 

 optics is any more accurate than his knowledge of geography. 



