GEORGE ENGEI-MANN, M.D. 17 



largest portion of the $25,000 that ''was almost ready," but he 

 was disappointed in his judgment of others. 



His most cherished plan to see his beloved Academy located 

 in its own fire-proof building, endowed with sufficient funds to 

 defray its expenses and increase its library and museum, was 

 never realized; but he had the satisfaction at last, during 1881, 

 to find it holding its meetings at Washington University, which 

 event he celebrated on January 5th, 1SS3, as follows : 



"With sincere pleasure I congratulate you that on this, your 

 25th anniversary, you, for the first time in twelve years, meet in 

 your own hall, surrounded by your precious library and by the 

 germ of a museum. . . . You must at last feel that you have a 

 home where henceforth you meet with comfort and work with 

 the hope of success. . . . But in your new home it is expected 

 that your meetings will attract greater public attention ; you will 

 draw around you the promoters and lovers of science in your 

 city ; the scientific zeal now awakening all over the land will also 

 increase among us. The number of members will augment, and, 

 with the new forces they will bring, the meeting will be more 

 attractive, and the visible result of your work — your Transactions 

 — will bear the name of your Academy, and of the City that fos- 

 teis it, to all parts of the civilized world." 



Thus have I endeavored to depict by his own penciling the 

 great interest and devotion which Dr. George Engelmann inva- 

 riably exhibited for the Academy, and the very commendable 

 zeal which he constantly evinced and practically demonstrated 

 for its progress and ultimate success. If during his life-time this 

 success was not as brilliant as he desired and expected it to be, 

 it was simply because this incomplete success occurred in spite of 

 his constant efforts ; for it must be acknowledged that from its 

 foundation he was identified with the Academy to such an extent 

 .that a review of the last third of his life may be justly called a 



