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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 
chanee 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 
