other and better hands— and I shall therefore confine myself more espe- 

 cially to his career and services, as connected with our Academy, to those 

 phases of his character that we all have witnessed and appreciated as from 

 time to time, during many years, he has come in and gone out before us> 

 and dropped those words of wisdom and instruction that have, I trust, 

 made us wiser and better from our associations with him. 



The founders of beneficent institutions are in every civilized society 

 justly held in high esteem and honor. The founders themselves soon 

 perish and pass away, but the institution lives on, and, if its object be to 

 enlighten, educate and elevate its members, or the people, it scatters its 

 blessings long after the projectors have ceased their labors; and yet in 

 such cases it remains true that all the subsequent benefits of the institution 

 are the result and fruitage of the planting and labors of the original found- 

 ers. Dr. Engelmann was not only one of the founders of this Instiution, 

 but, as an examination of its records and proceedings will show, he was 

 one of the most active and prominent, and if in the future it shall achieve 

 in the way of scientific research and discovery more than it has done in 

 the past it may well be attributed, at least in part, to his sagacity and 

 foresight. 



He helped to organize the Academy of Science of St. Louis on the loth 

 of March, 1856, and was chosen its first President; and the charter granted 

 by the Legislature of our State on the 17th of January, 1857, was accepted 

 on the 9th of February of the same year. There were other men of great 

 ability and scientific attainments associated with Dr. Engelmann in the 

 formation of this Academy, several of whom are still living; and of those 

 dead I may mention Drs. Hiram A. Prout, Benj. F. Shumard, M. M. 

 Pallen, Charles A. Pope, and M. L. Linton, upon the graves of each of 

 whom, well known to us, I would place a flower— a forget-me-not— while 

 speaking of their associate. Dr. Engelmann, more recently deceased. 



The published proceedings of the Academy show that from its first rep- 

 resentation down to the time of his death Dr. Engelmann was a constant 

 attendant at its meetings, and for the greater part of the time its President 

 and also chairman of the Committee on Library, on Publication, and, for 

 the last twenty-five years, of the Committee on Botany. 



The Transactions of the Academy are greatly enriched by articles from 

 his pen, mostly on botanical and meteorological subjects, in which fields 

 of study betook especial delight, and in which, also, he was almost with- 

 out a peer, especially when we consider that the time he had to devote to 



