REPORT OB" THE SECRETARY. 35 



NECROLOGY. 



DK. lAKI, AI,KKi;i) FELIX FLUdKL. 



In the death of Doctor Fliigel, whiih occurred in Leipzit,^, February 

 <), UKH, the Smithsonian Institution lost a loyal assistant and an intel- 

 li»»-ent and capal)le representative. Doctor Flii^el was appointed agent 

 of the International Exchanj^e Service of the Institution for Germany, 

 Austria, and the adjacent countries in 1855, a position he tilled for the 

 remaining- nearly fifty years of his life. He was the official successor 

 of his father, Dr. Johann Gottfried Fliigel, who was made agent of 

 the Smithsonian Exchange Service, at the time of its organization in 

 1847, l)y Prof, rloseph 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 proving likewise a life appointment in the case 

 of both father and son. 



Dr. Felix Fliigel was scholarly in his tastes and occupations by both 

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

 Ejiglish in the University of Leipzig, where he received his doctor'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 persever- 

 ing and laborious students in English, each publishing pamphlets 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 Dr. Felix Fliigel gave him an excep- 

 tional opportunity to further the exchange work of the Smithsonian 

 Institution throughout central Europe, and believing that the system 

 was an important medium of scientific intercourse between the United 

 States and Europe, he labored untiringl}^ for its development along 

 practical lines, at the same time adding to exact business methods the 

 charm of a personal courtesy and kindness which Avon man}' friends. 



It would be difficult to overestimate the intelligent and faithful serv-' 

 ice rendered to the Institution for so many years by Doctor Fliigel, 

 and the appreciation of his character expressed by those officials whose 

 fortune it was to know him personall}^ is a sincere tribute to his 

 capability and worth. 



DR. HENRY CARRINGTON BOLTON. 



Doctor Bolton, who died on November 19, 1908, was an earnest worker 

 in the field of chemical bibliography. He unselfishly devoted many 

 years of patient personal toil to the preparation of reference books 

 of much value to all interested in the study of chemistry. He also 



