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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



ing the difficulties and dangers, the poverty and hardships 

 under which his collections were made. He discovered and 

 made known to the scientific world an enormous number of 

 new species of plants from central Texas and many of these 

 will ever bear his name. The beautiful Ldndheimera iemna 

 is already not infrequent in ornamental cultivation and links 

 his name with the country of his adoption, while many plants 

 grown from seeds of his collection are found in the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden at St. Louis, in the Botanical Garden at 

 Cambridge, Mass., and elsewhere. His private herbarium at 

 his death came into the hands of Prof. Emil Dapprich of Mil- 

 waukee, Wisconsin, and was on exhibition at the World's 

 Fair at Paris. On Dapprich's death in 1903 it came into the 

 possession of the German-English Academy of Milwaukee, 

 where I understand it still remains. 



Mr. Lindheimer was a careful observer and a patient col- 

 lector, and the notes accompanying his collections add greatly 

 to ^their value. The specimens of his last collection (1849- 

 1851) will go to many herbaria in America and abroad and well 

 exhibit the care and faithfulness of his work. It is to be re- 

 gretted that time dealt not more leniently with them. A 

 number of his new species he himself described and named, 

 but many of the names he suggested were found preoccupied 

 and others given. 



Unfortunately many of Mr. Lindhcimer's most valuable 

 papers were published only in the Neu Braunfelser Zeitung 

 and the New York Staats-Zeitung, and arc all inaccessible to 

 readers except in the German tongue. A number of his 

 principal scientific, philosophical and historical essays col- 

 lected from these papers have been republished in Germany 

 under the title: " Aufsatze und Abhandlungen von Ferdinand 

 Lindheimer in Texas,"* but the greater part are unknown 

 and inaccessible to the general reader. In the "Aufsatze," 

 his simple, direct, philosophical style is always interesting 



* A volume of 176 pages published anonymously by one of his former 

 pupUs, Dr. Gustav Passavant, at Frankfort a. M. in 1879, the year of Mr. 

 Lindheimer's death. See the "Allgemeine Deutsche Biographic." 18: 

 697. Leipzig. 1883. 



