OBITUARY. 



KARL VOGT. 



Born July 5, 1817. Died May 6, 1895. 



HTHE death of Karl Vogt robs science of one of its masters and 

 J Switzerland of one of her most devoted friends. Vogt was born 

 at Giessen, and received his schooling in his native town. In 1833 

 he went to Berne, where he graduated in medicine, taking his doctor's 

 degree. In 1839 he became the collaborator of Louis Agassiz in 

 " l'Histoire naturelle des poissons d'eau douce," and from Neuchatel 

 went on to Paris, where he lived two years. After a brief visit to 

 Italy, he returned to Giessen, where he held a chair at the University. 

 A too ardent following of the democratic movement cost him his 

 professorship ; he had been deputy to the German National 

 Assembly, had supported the National Party, and had gained con- 

 siderable distinction as an orator. Retiring to Berne and to Nice he 

 pursued his zoological studies, and in 1849 became professor . at 

 Geneva, a position he still held at his death. In Switzerland also he 

 closely followed political life, and was a member of both the Federal 

 and National Councils. Vogt's name is associated with anthropology, 

 comparative anatomy, zoology, and geology, each group having been 

 illuminated by his genius. His "Science and Superstition" did much 

 to check religious bigotry, and his exposure of humanity in " Animal 

 Communities " created a considerable sensation throughout the 

 civilised world. 



KARL LUDWIG. 



Born October 29, 1816. Died April 24, 1895. 



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1 A HIS eminent physiologist was born at Wissenhaufen in Hesse. 

 He graduated at Marburg, receiving his doctorate at the 

 University in 1840, and resided successively at Marburg, Zurich and 

 Vienna. In 1861 he was appointed to Leipzig, where he remained 

 till his death. Of his numerous papers and books the best known, 

 perhaps, is his " Lehrbuch der Physiologic" He also edited the 

 annual, Gesammelte Arbeit des Leipzigev Physiologischen Instituts. 



Dr. Eugenio Duges, the eminent zoologist, died at Morelia, 

 Mexico, on January 13. He was born at Montpellier seventy years 

 ago, and was educated at Melun and Paris. In 1865 he went to 

 Mexico, and practised medicine at Guanajuato, later on proceeding 



