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upsetting of a boat on Lough Gill, whicli he and a friend, Mr. C. 

 Dickson, were using for the botanical exploration of the islands 

 in that piece of water. At the time ol^ his death he was Lec- 

 turer in Botany in the Cambridge University Medical and 

 Science Schools aaid at Grirton College, and Assistant Curator of 

 the Herbarium under the care of Prof. Babington. He was 

 elected P.L.S. December 7th, 1882; and read an elaborate memoir 

 on tlie Development of the Polliuium and Fertilization of 

 Asclepias Cornuti. Part has already been published in our 

 Transactions, and a concluding part is on the point of being 

 issued. In the illustration of this he was assisted by his wife. 

 A must promising career was unhappily cut short by accident. 



Dr. GtEOEge Engelmikk, wlio for many years had resided at 

 St. Louis, Missouri, taking a leading part in all matters relating to 

 his [)rofession, to science generally, and bot;inj in particular, was 

 born at Frank£ort-on-the-Maine February 2nd, 1809, graduated 

 in that city, but soon took up his residtnice in the United States. 

 It thus happened that lie was of necessity almost as well known to 

 British botanists as his associates and follow labourers, Torrey 

 and Grray, and those of a younger generation. Eugelmanu, 

 indeed, has helped forward in many ways the botany of his 

 adopted land. On the Conifers, the Oaks, the Agaves, the 

 Cactuses, the Vines, the Cuscutas, and sundry other groups he 

 had come to be looked up to as the leading authority. He was 

 a hard worker; and his time and knowledge were always at 

 the service of his friends and colleagues, a referee in whose 

 authority on certain subjects might be placed implicit confidence — 

 the more so as he was entirely free from dogmatism, and ready 

 at once to admit an error or oversight. 



His reputation, of course, extended beyond the English- 

 speaking countries ; for he had become the leading authority on 

 Conifers and other subjects. So completely had he identified 

 himself with systematic botany, that his earlier morphological 

 work has been forgotten by most people. Nevertheless it was 

 in his academic essay on plant monstrosities, ' De Antholysi Pro- 

 dromus,' in 1832, that the indications of the " calmness and 

 clearness of perception and judgment," which Goethe remarked 

 of him, that characterized him were first made evident. The 

 work in question preceded by a dozen years or more that of 

 Moquiu-Tandon, and, though written in rugged Latin, which 

 contrasts uufavuuiably with the elegant French of Moquin, is 

 remarkable for its clearness of statement and simplicity of 

 method. At that time the theory of the metamorphosis of plants 

 enunciated by Goetiie, which, from a purely morphological point 

 of view is uuafiected by the more modern cunceptions of evolu- 

 tion, was making but slow headway. Engclmann's treatise must 

 have been grateful to Goethe, as it furnished numeious confirma- 

 tions of his views, and elicited from the great philosopher, m 

 February 1833, that remariv as to Eugelmaun's mental powers 



