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four. Something induced him to ask my advice, and 

 to let me know the very ample fortune with which he 

 is to endow the garden, when he dies. I was in 

 doubt .whether all this was likely to be quite wasted, 

 or was in condition to be turned to good account for 

 botany and horticulture when Mr. Shaw leaves it and 

 his trust comes to be executed. I wished also to see 

 that dear old Engelmann's herbarium should be 

 properly and permanently preserved. So I went on 

 to St. Louis. Mr. Shaw took me into his counsel and, 

 without going here into details, without seeing a 

 chance for doing much while Mr. Shaw lives, which 

 cannot be very long, I see there is a grand oppor- 

 tunity coming, and I think that none of the pro- 

 visions he has made will hinder the right development 

 of the Mississippian Kew, which will hardly be " Kew 

 in a corner." And if he follows my advice and mends 

 some matters, there will be a grand foundation laid. 



We are expecting Ball toward the end of the 

 month. He will have time to travel and botanize 

 before the Montreal meeting. But I can't go with 

 him, nor, perhaps, could I much help him. . . . 



Dr. Gray's friend of many years, George Engel- 

 mann, M. D., died in February, 1884. He was a stu- 

 dent at Heidelberg with Schimper and Alexander 

 Braun in 1827, and again in Paris, in 1832, with 

 Agassiz and Braun. He came to America in 1834, 

 made some journeys on horseback in the West, and 

 settled as a physician in St. Louis, then a frontier 

 trading-post, in 1835. He lived to see it become a 

 metropolis of over four hundred thousand inhabi- 

 tants. Dr. Gray says in his memoirs of him, " In 

 the consideration of Dr. Engelmann's botanical work 



