GEORGE ENGELMANN. eae 
inhabitants. He lived to see it become a metropolis of over 
four hundred thousand. He began in absolute poverty, the 
small means he had brought from Europe completely ex- 
hausted. In four years he had laid the foundations of success 
in his profession, and had earned the means for making a 
voyage to Germany, and, fulfilling a long-standing engage- 
ment, for bringing to a frugal home the chosen companion of 
his life, Dora Hartsmann, his cousin, whom he married at 
Kreuznach, on the 11th of June, 1840. On his way homeward, 
at New York, the writer of this memorial formed the personal 
acquaintance of Dr. Engelmann; and thus began the friend- 
ship and the scientific association which has continued un- 
broken for almost half a century. 
Dr. Engelmann’s position as a leading physician in St. 
Louis, as well among the American as the German and French 
population, was now soon established. He was even able in 
1856, without risk, to leave his practice for two years, to de- 
vote most of the first summer to botanical investigation in 
Cambridge, and then, with his wife and young son, to revisit 
their native land, and to fill up a prolonged vacation in inter- 
esting travel and study. In the year 1868 the family visited 
Europe for a year, the son remaining to pursue his medical 
studies in Berlin. And lastly, his companion of nearly forty 
years having been removed by death in January, 1879, and 
his own robust health having suffered serious and indeed 
alarming deterioration, he sailed again for Germany in the 
summer of 1883. The voyage was so beneficial that he was 
able to take up some botanical investigations, which, however, 
were soon interrupted by serious symptoms. But the return 
voyage proved wonderfully restorative; and when, in early 
autumn, he rejoined his friends here, they could hope that 
the unfinished scientific labors, which he at once resumed 
with alacrity of spirit, might still for a while be carried on 
with comfort. So indeed they were, in some measure, after 
his return to his home, yet with increasing infirmity and no 
little suffering until the sudden illness supervened which, in 
a few days, brought his honorable and well-filled life to 
a close. 
