xlii Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



at the informal reunion of members after adjournment. 

 In the Association of American Physicians he was the 

 peer of acknowledged leaders in scientific medicine. Hon- 

 orary distinctions came to him unsought ; the giver more 

 honored than the recipient. 



Dr. Baumgarten was a man of distinctively broad cul- 

 ture. The Latin and Greek of a curriculum assimilated 

 to that of the gymnasium lived anew in his terse and 

 incisive English. His native German, formed on the best 

 models, was equally the perfect mirror of his thought. 

 He valued mathematics as the exemplification of close 

 reasoning from defined postulates. Biology was in the 

 widest sense the Science of Life. Literature was a cult 

 and a recreation; the sympathetic characterizations of 

 Fritz Eeuter and the whimsical conceits of Jean Paul 

 and of Stockton appealed strongly to his genial sense of 

 humor — humani nihil a se alienum putabat. 



Of the eighty-five active members of the Academy 

 listed in 1867 only five were carried on the roll at the date 

 of its semi-centennial celebration, March 10, 1906. The 

 number is now reduced to four. In the days of relatively 

 small membership and sparse attendance at meetings Dr. 

 Baumgarten was its efficient Librarian and supervisor 

 of the exchange of Transactions with affiliated societies. 

 Later, as one by one old associates were removed, he 

 ceased to frequent our meetings. His sustained loyalty 

 to the Academy is attested by his remarkable record as 

 an active member, from 1856, and by his unfailing appre- 

 ciation of efforts to realize the high aspirations of its 

 founders : — Engelmann loved him, and he revered Engel- 

 mann's memory. 



In all the relations of life, he was sans peur et sans 

 reproche. In the circle of his chosen friends he was 

 affable and often playful. All were better for having 

 known him. If it were required to write his epitaph in 

 a single phrase, it might well be in the finely appropriate 

 words of Virgil: — 



MENS SIBI CONSCTA RECTI 



