516 GEORGE ENGELMANN. 



1882. It was completed in March, 1883. It was the last effort of 

 a life-long study. 



Since 1878 he had been appointed to the United States ]\Iint in 

 Philadelphia. In the spring of 1883 he made his last journey to 

 California. His health seemed to improve, then to fail again. lie 

 died on November 15, 1883, and was buried in West Laurel Hill 

 Cemetery in Philadelphia. His wife and two sons survive him. 



Le Conte's figure, his features and countenance, reminded one 

 strongly of his French descent. Concerning his character it is suffi- 

 cient to say that he had no enemy. lie was an honorary member of 

 the prominent entomological, and many other societies, as well as a 

 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publi- 

 cations will form a strong and enduring basis for all succeeding workers 

 to build upon.* 



His extensive collection was bequeathed by him to the Agassiz 

 Museum in Cambridge. It will forever be one of the most valuable 

 treasures of this institution. 



GEORGE ENGELMANN. 



In the death of Dr. Engelmann, which took place on the 4 th of 

 February last, the American Academy has lost one of its very few 

 Associate Fellows in the Botanical Section, and the science one of 

 its most eminent and venerable cultivators. 



He was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, February 2, 1809, and had 

 therefore just completed his seventy-fifth year. His father, a younger 

 member of the family of Engelmanus who for several generations 

 served as clergymen at Bacharach on the Rhine, was also educated 

 for the ministry, and was a graduate of the University of Halle, but 

 he devoted his life to education. Marrying the daughter of George 

 Oswald May, a somewhat distinguished portrait-painter, they estab- 

 lished at Frankfort, and carried on for a time with much success, a 

 school for young ladies, such as are common in the United States, but 

 were then a novelty in Germany. 



George P2ngelmann was the eldest of thirteen children born of this 

 marriage, nine of whom survived to manhood. Assisted by a scholar- 

 ship founded by " the Reformed Congregation of Frankfort," he went 



* Mr. S. Hensliaw lias published a "List of Le Conte's Entomological Writ- 

 ings," Cambridge, 1878, 4to ; and an Index to the Coleoptera described by Le 

 Conte, in Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc, 1881, vol. ix. 



