GEORGE ENGELMANN, M,D. 3 



which he had accumulated," but death prevented Goethe from 

 accomplishing his design. 



Dr. Masters, at present the most prominent teratologist, in a 

 recent article in "Nature," compared this treatise to the elaborate 

 *' Elemens de Teratologic Vegetale" of Monquin-Tandon, and 

 declared that, "when we compare the two works from a philo- 

 sophical point of view, and consider that the one was a mere col- 

 lege essay, while the other was the work of a professed botanist, 

 we must admit that Engelmann's treatise, as far as it goes, affords 

 evidence of deeper insight into the nature and cause of the devia- 

 tions from the ordinary conformations of plants than does that of 

 Monquin." "It is a remarkable production for the time, and for 

 a mere student with botanical predilections," remarks one of his 

 distinguished friends; and it certainly has indicated not only the 

 influences of his former studies and associates, but already then 

 foreshadowed the tendency and future development of his sci- 

 entific pursuits. 



In Paris, where he remained the greater part of 1832 to enlarge 

 his stock of scientific knowledge and to perfect himself in surgery 

 and medical science in general, he met his cherished companions 

 of Heidelberg and spent with them "a glorious life in scientific 

 union in spite of the cholera." 



The glowing descriptions which Duden had published of West- 

 ern America, and dissatisfaction with the political situation of 

 Germany, had already induced some near relatives of young En- 

 gelmann to settle in the Mississippi valley near St. Louis. Their 

 continuous favorable reports excited their friends at home if not 

 to actual emigration, at least to a desire of making investments 

 in that beautiful and fertile country with a view to the future es- 

 tablishment of a permanent home. Young Engelmann readily 

 accepted the offer to become the agent of the parties ; he em- 

 barked at Bremen in September, 1832, for Baltimore, and went 

 directly from there to Philadelphia, which was then known al- 



