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It is a morphological study founded chiefly upon monstrosities, and it 

 had the honor of receiving the notice and approval of Goethe, who of- 

 fered to place in Engelmann's hands his notes and sketches, which 

 intention was frustrated by his death before it had been carried out. 

 This first paper has been very favorably commented upon, and com- 

 pared with much more extended and pretentious works of a similar 

 nature. 



The spring and summer of 1832 were passed at Paris in medical 

 and scientific studies with Braun and Agassiz as companions. He 

 then became the willing agent of his uncles, who had resolved to make 

 some land investments in the Mississippi Valley, and he sailed from 

 Bremen for Baltimore in September. He joined some of his relatives 



Fig. 10. Residence of Dh. Geo. Engelmann in St. Louis, Missouri : 

 by permission of the Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 



who had previously settled in Illinois near St. Louis, and made lonely 

 journeys on horseback through southern Illinois, Missouri and Ar- 

 kansas. He finally established himself in St. Louis as a doctor of 

 medicine late in the autumn of 1835. At this time St. Louis was a 

 frontier town of eight or ten thousand inhabitants. Beginning in 

 poverty, he soon built up a large practise and so established himself in 

 his profession that he was able to go back to Germany for some months. 

 While there he married his cousin. Miss Dora Hartmann, in June, 

 1840. 



Again in 1856 he left his practise for a two years' absence, devoting 



