( .l^ TIIK BOTANISTS OF I'll 1 I. A DKI.I'II I A. 



GOTTHILF H. E. MUHLENBERG. 



The late Prof. .lolin M. Maisch. ill nil address on 

 Mnhlenliero' as a botanist. : emphasi/ed tin- frequency with 

 which his name is met in works of systematic character as 

 tliat of {in original descriher. 



Members of the Muhlenberu' family were conspicuous in 

 the early history of the 1'nited States. Pastor Heinrich 

 Melehior Muhlenberi;. who eMine to Philadelphia hy way of 

 ( 'harleston, S. ( '.. in 1742, was the patriarch of the Lutheran 

 Church in the Cnited States. His eldest son. Pastor Johann 

 Peter Gabriel, was a major-general in the Revolutionary War, 

 Vice-President of Pennsylvania, a member of the House of 

 Kepivsentatives of the t'nited Stales, a United States 

 Senator, and a well-known revenue otlicer. Another son, 

 Friedrich August, also a minister of the ospel. was a 

 memher of the Continental ( longress, a member and spc-aker 

 of the Pennsylvania Legislature, and a member of the 

 House of Representatives. 



Gotthilf Heinrich Krnst Muhlenbero-. the third son and 

 the botanist and scientist of this distinguished family, was 

 born in New Providence, Montgomery County. Pa., Xoveinl er 

 17, 17.".:;, and died in Lancaster. Pa.. May 23, 1815.f He 

 attended schools in his native place and in Philadelphia, to 

 which city his family removed in 17(il. When he was ten 

 years old he went with his brothers to Halle, to finish his 

 studies and prepare for the ministry. After a visit to 

 Kinheck. his father's native place, he entered a school in 



* Dflivnr.l iN-fniv iiu> I'iiuiiHT Vcivin lit' 1'h i l.-nU-l ] ill i;i . May n, I^N:, arid 

 ]'iitili>linl ill l>r. l-'r. Iliill'in.-iii'^ J'/iuritxn-i ntix<-/ir I; n . >ulx<-h it. .lunr. ls<(i; also 

 si'|i:ir:iti'ly. See /'"jiii/iii- ,sv< /(, Mn/itli/ii, XI. \', <'*.>. rurtrail>. 



6 I'urti-Mit in culiir. A |mrlniit nf him M]I]H-:II> in " !'icincfi> ul' Srirlin- in 

 America," rjlilnl :m.l l:r\ [8ed liy W. J. Viunnans. AH'IrtonX ixif.. \>. .">v. 



