190 Ohitnanj — Charles Boeder — Robert Cairns. 



CHARLES ROEDER. 

 Born July 22, 1848. Died September 9, 1911. 



Charles Roeder was a native of Gera, Thuringia, and came to this 

 country wlien 21 years of age as a clerk in a Manchester sliipping 

 house. He later started in business for himself as an agent for several 

 important Continental and English manufacturers. 



He devoted a large measure of his spare time in research work 

 of various kinds, geology, hotany, philology, and history being his 

 chief subjects. Preliistoric archaeology, also, came in for a good share 

 of his time in later life. 



His geological investigations were b)' no means small, and one has 

 only to peruse the Transactions of the Alanchester Geological Society 

 and various other local journals in order to gain some idea of his 

 work in this science. 



The sections of Upper Coal-measure and Permian strata exposed in 

 cutting the railway from Fallowheld to Levenshulme, on the south 

 side of Manchester, afforded him excellent opportunities to pursue 

 one of his pet subjects. To him science is especially indebted for 

 a knowledge of these beds. With unflagging energy he examined and 

 measured this section inch by inch, collecting, often with considerable 

 difficulty, the various fossils contained therein, afterwards forwarding 

 the results of his labours to Messrs. Jones and Kirkby, Professor 

 Geinitz, and others, for expert examination and identification. In 

 his honour a new species of Ostracoda was named by Messrs. Jones 

 and Kirkby, viz. Carhonia roederiana. 



Mr. Koeder later presented a fine series of fossils from this and 

 many other localities at home and abroad to the Manchester Museum. 

 J. W. J. 



ROBERT CAIRNS. 

 Born 1854. Died December 29, 1911. 



Br the death of Mr. llobert Cairns, which took place from heart 

 failure at his residence. Hurst, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire loses 

 a well-known local geologist. The deceased came to Ashton from 

 Hawick, Roxbui'ghshire, about 1875, and for many years acted as 

 assistant to Mr. Abraham Park, J. P., at the Albion Schools. This 

 position he relinquished later in order to take over the headmastership 

 of the Hurst Undenominational (Old Jiritish) School, which he held 

 for the past thirty-five years. 



He was a man of wide culture and endowed with a strong 

 personality that brought him numerous friends. As an enthusiastic 

 geologist and conchologist he made a name for himself among a wide 

 circle of local naturalists. 



For many years he assiduously collected fossils from the numerous 

 coal-pits lying between Ashton and Oldham, and formed an extensive 

 and valuable coUectiou of fish and other remains. During the sinking 

 operations of the Ashton Moss pit, at Audenshaw, he took advantage 

 of the excellent opportunity afforded of collecting and studying the 

 various fossils met with, and by his unwearied labour got together 

 a fine series of interesting specimens. He also collected extensively 



