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Miscellaneous. 



skins of Mammalia, Mr. Fraser observes, lie had forwarded a Galago 

 which was shot at Cape Coast, close to the town, in a tamarind tree, 

 where he also found its nest, built, or rather laid, in a fork formed by 

 the branches. The nest was composed of loose leaves. The animal 

 resembled the Loris gracilis, but its limbs were stouter. The fol- 

 lowing monkeys, Mr. Fraser states, appear to be found in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Sierra Leone : Troglodytes niger, Colobus ursinus, Cerco- 

 pithecus fuliginosus, common, Cere. Sabcevs, and Cynocephalus Papio. 

 The banks of the beach are everywhere perforated with large round 

 holes, which the natives informed Mr. Fraser were inhabited by an 

 animal whicli they call the Ground-pig, which is the Aulacodus Swin- 

 derianus of Temminck. At Bassa, the author of the letter saw some 

 skins of Cercopithecus Diana, said to be common in that district ; he 

 also saw a skin of an antelope, apparently the Antilope Ogilbyi, 

 Waterh. At Cape Coast the Cercopithecvs petaurista is to be found, 

 and likewise the Colobus leucomeros . Skins of the last-mentioned 

 animal as well as of the Cercopithecus Diana were extremely plentiful 

 at Accra. 



Part X. of the SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS is just published ; and 

 contains amongst others, the following translations from the German, 

 connected with Natural History : — On the Distribution of Tempe- 

 rature on the Surface of the Earth ; by Prof. Dove of Berlin. — On 

 the Azotized Nutritive Principles of Plants ; by Prof. Liebig : — and 

 on numerous Animals of the Chalk Formation still found in a living 

 state ; and of the organization of the Poly thalamia ; by Prof. Ehren- 

 berg. 



OBITUARY :— Dr. Theodor Vogel. 



Science has to deplore, in the death of Dr. Vogel, the loss of a 

 zealous and accomplished botanist, and an amiable man. We learn 

 this melancholy news from a letter received from Mr. C. G. Roscher, 

 dated on board the Albert, January 27. Hopes had been entertained 

 that during his stay at Fernando Po he would have recovered from 

 the effects of African fever, which had proved fatal to so large a num- 

 ber of those engaged with him in the disastrous expedition up the 

 Niger ; but as a consequence of his previous attack, and of his 

 anxiety in any degree in his power to fulfill the purposes of his 

 journey, he was seized with a dysentery, which, notwithstanding the 

 careful attentions of Mr. Thomson, surgeon of the Soudan, and of 

 Dr. M 'William and Mr. Troschel, closed his earthly career on the 

 1 7th of December. His surviving fellow-travellers, by whom he was 

 highly esteemed for his kind and generous qualities, and truly 

 Christian virtues, committed his remains to the grave by the side of 

 those of Captain Allen. 



We learn that Dr. Vogel had diligently availed himself of the few 

 opportunities which had been afforded him of extending botanical 

 knowledge. He made an excursion of two days, in company with 

 Dr. Stanger, from Accra to the Aquapin hills, where he collected 

 many plants of great interest, several of which he considered as new ; 



