30T4fW* 
Weather Bureau was established they have 
in present day meteorological work. In 1S48 
upon the Cactaceae of Doniphan's Rio Gn 
trip 
and later the important reports upon the Cacti of the Pacific Railroad 
The 
Transactions of 
of Science of St. Louis, papers that rar 
botany. 
Engelmarm was a close friend of Henry Shaw and when the latter 
began the development of his garden he was able to direct Shaw's 
taste into profitable channels; the result was that Shaw's Garden 
IS really a botanical garden. From it has grown an institution of the 
greatest importance and interest— tiie Missouri Botanical Garden. 
Here are lodged Engelmann's herbarium, containing rich series of 
important type specimens. The Garden also possesses all of his 
4, 1884. 
ary 
DR. F. A. WISLIZENUS 
■Closely associated with Engelmann in all of his interests in the 
Academy of Science, as well as in the practice of medicine and his 
interests in botany and meteorology, was Dr. Frederick Adolphus 
Wislizenus. Dr. Wislizenus was born in 1810 in Koenigsee, in Schwarz- 
ourg - Rudolstadt, one of the numerous tiny German principalities 
of that period. He studied medicine at the University of Jena in 
1828 and later at Gottingen and Wurzburg and eventually obtained 
^^ M.D. degree in Zurich in 1834. Immediately following he sailed 
tor New York and in 1839 came to St. Louis. Taking advantage of 
!f opportunity to accompany an expedition of the St. Louis Fur 
Company he went far into the Northwestern country towards the 
source of the Green river in the Wind River mountains. Later he 
^';ossed the Rocky Mountains to Utah and, finding no guide to take 
^"^ to California, he returned to St. Louis. 
J Wislizenus was interested in meteorology, botany and mineralogy 
,gj^^^^^ subjects he contributed many original observations. In 
^ he wrote a book on his travels entitled. Bin Ausflug nach 
Jah 
Soci t ^nto English and published by the Missouri 
lety in 1912 as A Journey to the Rocky Mountains in the 
This was 
Historical 
Mexic 
Government nublished his Memoir of 
Wisl 
izenus died in St. Louis, September 22, 1889. 
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