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 Dr. Carl Alfred Felix Flugel 



In the death of Doctor Flugel, which occurred in Leipzig, Feb- 

 ruary 6, 1904, the Smithsonian Institution lost a loyal assistant .and 

 an intelligent and capable representative. Doctor Flugel was ap- 

 pointed agent of the International Exchange Service of the Institu- 

 tion for Germany, Austria, and the adjacent countries in 1855, a posi- 

 tion he filled for the remaining nearly fifty years of his life, lie was 

 the official successor of his father. Doctor Johann Gottfried Flugel, 

 who was made agent of the Smithsonian Exchange Service, at the 

 time of its organization in 1847, by Professor Joseph Henry, first 

 Secretary of the Institution, he also having filled the position until 

 his death in 1854. The son succeeded his father as United States 

 vice-consul in Leipzig also, this position under the government prov- 

 ing likewise a life appointment in the case of both father and son. 



Doctor Felix Flugel was scholarly in his tastes and occupations by 

 both inheritance and training, the father having been the first lecturer 

 in English in the University of Leipzig, where he received his doc- 

 tor's degree in 1824, publishing in the same year a Grammar of the 

 English Language, which remains a noteworthy record of the earlier 

 period of English philology in Germany. Both father and son were 

 persevering and laborious students in English, each publishing pam- 

 phlets and critical essays on the language, and each being the author 

 of an English and German Dictionary, that of the son having become 

 a standard work, which reached its fifteenth edition in 1891. 



The long tenure of office of Doctor Felix Flugel gave him an ex- 

 ceptional opportunity to further the exchange work of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution throughout central Europe, and, believing that the 

 system was an important medium of scientific intercourse between 

 the United States and Europe, he labored untiringly for its develop- 

 ment along practical lines, at the same time adding to exact business 

 methods the charm of a personal courtesy and kindness which won 

 many friends. 



It would be difficult to overestimate the intelligent and faithful 

 service rendered to the Institution for so many years by Doctor 

 Flugel, and the appreciation of his character expressed by those 

 officials whose fortune it was to come into personal relation with 

 him is a sincere tribute to his capability and worth. 



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