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DEATH OF DR. VOGEL. 
as the island of Rollas. Most of the sick were 
benefited by this little change to the sea air, having 
an advantage over those who had been steeped of 
late in the pestiferous “ smokes” at Clarence. 
14^7i. — Every preparation w^as being made prior 
to leaving the island; getting stores on board the 
‘ Albert,’ dismantling the ‘ Soudan,’ and working up 
patent fuel out of the small coal, there being scarcely 
any fuel left. 
IQth . — This morning, Doctor Theodore Vogel — 
whose constitution, — which never rallied from the 
attack of river fever, rapidly broke down under 
the continuance of the uncontrollable dysentery — ■ 
breathed his last, adding another to the long list of 
those who have given themselves to the cause of Africa 
and the inquiry of science. Of Dr. Vogel’s acquire- 
ments as a botanist, it is unnecessary to speak ; his 
reputation was European, and had he been spared to 
complete the task he had undertaken, and was so ably 
fulfilling under numerous difficulties, no doubt he had 
left but little undone for future investigators of Africa 
in that branch of natural history. It may indeed be 
said he sacrificed himself on the altar of science, inas- 
much as he had preferred remaining at Fernando Po, 
to continue his labours, when in a most wretched state 
of health, rather than lose that opportunity, by pro- 
ceeding onto Ascension in the ‘Wilberforce,’ where the 
change of air might have prolonged his days. On 
examination, the lungs were found to have all the 
