6 TRANS. ST. LOUIS ACAD. SCIENCE. 



comparatively large number of German families already residing? 

 in St. Louis and its neighborhood. The results of his former in- 

 vestigations of the country, during his extensive travels, he elabo- 

 rately set forth in articles on the climatology, natural history, and 

 the rich resources of the Mississippi Valley, and brought them 

 out in the "Westland," a journal to which many of his congenial 

 companions contributed, and which was published in the interest 

 and to attract the attention of the population of Germany to the 

 yet uncultivated but exceedingly fertile plains of Western Amer- 

 ica. It was printed and published at Heidelberg in Germany, 

 but was discontinued after its third number. It seems that the 

 ability he exhibited for general affairs aided the rapid develop- 

 ment of his professional practice. In about four years he had 

 accumulated sufficient funds to enable him to leave his patients 

 in the care of his trusted friend, Dr. A. Wislizenus, and to re- 

 turn to Germany for the purpose of marrying his affianced bride. 

 Miss Dora Horstmann, of Kreuznach, to whom he had been 

 engaged for ten years. On the nth of June, 1840, he brought 

 his young wife to his newly-e&tablished, though humble, home 

 in St. Louis. 



Engelmann's energy, love of scientific work, and constant em- 

 ployment of the mind, could not have failed to procure for him 

 a prominent position in any community ; but his eminent knowl- 

 edge of medicine, his mild temper, his very gentle and confi- 

 dence-inspiring behavior at the sickbed, and his sincere devotion 

 to his friends, were traits of character which won him the esteem 

 of his fellow-citizens, and, with the constant growth of a well- 

 deserved popularity, his practice became very .remunerative. 

 This enabled him to satisfy his scientific predilections, and to 

 pursue his favorite botanical studies. He left St. Louis a second 

 time in the fall of 1856, in company with his wife, and devoted 

 nearly two years to travelling and the study of botany in the 

 Eastern States as well as in Europe, where he superintended tlie 



