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the following April, in order to resume his teaching of the sum- 

 mer classes of medical students in zoology. In May, word was 

 received by his family that he was ill. Mrs. Rogers, with two of 

 Prof. Rogers's brothers, took the first steamer to go to him, but 

 when they reached Liverpool they learned that he had died sev- 

 eral days before, of erysipelas. 



The following notices of Prof. Rogers appeared in Philadelphia 

 papers shortly after his death : 



" It is difficult and perhaps impossible in the compass of a notice 

 like the present to convey an adequate notion of the general at- 

 tainments of Prof. Rogers, or of his peculiar views in geological 

 science. As a geologist he might be termed a paroxysmist, al- 

 though he preferred to give full weight to the operation of those 

 ordinary causes which are gradually and silently working to 

 bring about the changes everywhere recorded on the surface of 

 the earth. But he believed that many of the more marked cos- 

 mical phenomena could not be sufficiently explained without a 

 resort to the doctrine of catastrophes, and he deliberately though 

 modestly announced his opinion in these respects. His acquire- 

 ments in all departments of physics were considerable, to which 

 he added the accomplishment of a large acquaintance with our 

 own literature and that of other countries. Accustomed to con- 

 sider closely the important social and ethical questions which 

 engage the attention of enlightened men, he brought to their 

 examination an accuracy and breadth of observation derived from 

 his habits of scientific investigation. 



" Prof. Rogers was a member of many learned societies both 

 in Europe and America, and his scientific brethren will amply 

 honor his memory. We may add that, though representing 

 America in a foreign university for many years, his patriotism 

 was fervent, and he was able to defend and maintain the cause of 

 the Union at all times and under all circumstances." 



Another paper said : 



" As a lecturer Prof. Rogers's excellences will long live in the 

 recollections of his Philadelphia auditors. His calm, impressive 

 tone, thoroughly well sustained and occasionally rising with the 

 swell of his subject to a high pitch of eloquence, his quiet, gentle- 

 manly bearing, his thorough mastery of and deep interest in his 

 subjects never failed to kindle even in the most indifferent listen- 

 ers at least a temporary glow responsive to the feeling of his own 

 breast. He has passed away, and left a name not soon to be for- 

 gotten by the cultivators of science, and a place among his friends 

 and associates that can not without great difficulty be supplied." 



" Of him whom we have lost," says the minute of the Ameri- 

 can Academy of Arts and Sciences, " suffice it to record here in 

 simplest and briefest phrase that he was a most accomplished 



