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determinations seem to have been, as a rule, correct beyond the ordi- 
nary. He was a charter member of the Engelmann Botanical Club, 
and was its first vice-president. He was also a member of the Inter- 
national Association of Botanists, and was made one of its vice-presi- 
dents. 
Personallly, he seems to have had no enemies; he always remem- 
bered an injury, either real or fancied, and was unstinting in his ex- 
pression of dislike for those who had in any way incurred his displeas- 
ure. His love of botany and his fine herbarium made him well 
known to the local botanists, yet he never seems to have been on really 
intimate terms with many of them. He was always ready to exchange 
specimens of rare plants or local species, and his herbarium was thus 
greatly enlarged by exchange from other countries as well as from all 
parts of the United States. During early days he collected specimens 
for the purpose of selling them, but as he grew older he could rarely 
be induced to sell his specimens, preferring to exchange. 
His herbarium at his death was estimated to contain about 60,000 
specimens, and was considered very valuable. It was acquired by the 
Missouri Botanical Garden, and is at present being incorporated with 
the herbarium of that institution as rapidly as possible. His her- 
barium is especially valuable for the reason that it was the basis of a 
local flora published by Eggert in 1891 under the title “ Catalogue of 
the Phenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of the Vicinity 
of St. Louis, Mo.” His preface’is characteristic and self-explanatory, 
so that it may well be given: 
Since* the publication of Mr. Geyer’s catalogue of the Plants of cringe 
and Missouri, about 1842, no other effort has been made to publish a of 
ae growing in the vicinity of St. Louis but my own partial lists of seis 
found in former years. I hope my present catalogue of Plants growing i 
panies of about 40 miles around St. Louis will be welcome to botanists seit 
ocal flora is published. 
Since 1874 I have systematically looked over the ground in all directions, 
so that very few —. will have escaped my observation; but as I could only 
go out one day at a time, in places too far off from railroads, there still may 
be found something new. Railroads also will bring new immigrants from other 
regions when some of our own plants may have vanished, so that it will be a 
very ie or matter for later botanists to know what in former years was 
growing here. is idea mostly led me to have this catalogue printed. 
ith the oo of a few plants reported to me by Mr. Letterman, of 
Allenton, Mo., all plants are collected by myself. The catalogue contains nearly 
1,100 different pee and varieties, so that St. Louis need not be ashamed of 
her flor 
This Te of Mr. Egeert’s is by far the best and most nearly 
complete list of our plants which has yet appeared. Besides the above 
mentioned catalogue, a number of small lists of desiderata were dis- 
* Eogert, Henry, “Catalogue of the err scpeenrae te Vascular Crypto- 
gamous Piacte in the Vicinity of St. Louis, Mo.,” 1-16, 
