xlii Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 
at the informal reunion of members after adjournment. 
In the Association of American Physicians he was the 
peer of acknowledged leaders in scientific medicine. Hon- 
orary distinctions came to him unsought; the giver more 
honored than the recipient. 
_ Dr. Baumgarten was a man of distinctively broad cul- 
ture. The Latin and Greek of a curriculum assimilated 
to that of the gymnasium lived anew in his terse and 
incisive English. His native German, formed on the best 
models, was equally the perfect mirror of his thought. 
He valued mathematics as the exemplification of close 
reasoning from defined postulates. Biology was in the 
widest sense the Science of Life. Literature was a cult 
and a recreation; the sympathetic characterizations of 
Fritz Reuter and the whimsical conceits of Jean Paul 
and of Stockton appealed strongly to his genial sense of» 
humor—humani nihil a se alienum putabat. 
Of the eighty-five active members of the Academy 
listed in 1867 only five were carried on the roll at the date 
of its semi-centennial celebration, March 10, 1906. The 
number is now reduced to four. In the days of relatively 
small membership and sparse attendance at meetings Dr. 
Baumgarten was its efficient Librarian and supervisor 
of the exchange of Transactions with affiliated societies. 
Later, as one by one old associates were removed, he 
ceased to frequent our meetings. His sustained loyalty 
to the Academy is attested by his remarkable record as 
an active member, from 1856, and by his unfailing appre- 
ciation of efforts to realize the high aspirations of its 
founders :—Engelmann loved him, and he revered Engel- 
mann’s memory. 
In all the relations of life, he was sans peur et sans 
reproche. In the circle of his chosen friends he was 
affable and often playful. All were better for having 
known him. If it were required to write his epitaph in 
a single phrase, it might well be in the finely appropriate 
words of Virgil:— 
MENS SIBI CONSCIA RECTI 
Q. 
