140 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, 
ing the difficulties and dangers, the poverty and hardships 
under which his collections were made. He discovered and 
made known to the scientific world an enormous number of 
new species of plants from central Texas and many of these 
will ever bear his name. The beautiful Lindheimera texana 
is already not infrequent in ornamental cultivation and links 
his name with the country of his adoption, while many plants 
grown from seeds of his collection are found in the Missouri 
Botanical Garden at St. Louis, in the Botanical Garden at 
Cambridge, Mass., and elsewhere. His private herbarium at 
his death came into the hands of Prof. Emil Dapprich of Mil- 
waukee, Wisconsin, and was on exhibition at the World’s 
Fair at Paris. On Dapprich’s death in 1903 it came into the 
possession of the German-English Academy of Milwaukee, 
where I understand it still remains. 
Mr. Lindheimer was a careful observer and a patient col- 
lector, and the notes accompanying his collections add greatly 
to their value. The specimens of his last collection (1849- 
1851) will go to many herbaria in America and abroad and well 
exhibit the care and faithfulness of his work. It is to be re- 
gretted that time dealt not more leniently with them. A 
number of his new species he himself described and named, 
but many of the names he suggested were found preoccupied 
and others given. 
Unfortunately many of Mr. Lindheimer’s most valuable 
papers were published only in the Neu Braunfelser Zeitung 
and the New York Staats-Zeitung, and are all inaccessible to 
readers except in the German tongue. A number of his 
principal scientific, philosophical and historical essays col- 
lected from these papers have been republished in Germany 
under the title: “ Aufsitze und Abhandlungen von Ferdinand 
Lindheimer in Texas,”* but the greater part are unknown 
and inaccessible to the general reader. In the “Aufsiitze,” 
his simple, direct, philosophical style is always interesting 
* A volume of 176 pages published anonymously by one of his former 
pupils; Dr. Gustav Passavant, at Frankfort a. M. in 1879, the year of Mr. 
Lindheimer’s death. See the ‘‘Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.” 183 
697. Leipzig. 1883 
