FOOTNOTES 
^ See Ralph S. Bates, Scientific Societies in the United States 
(New York and London, 1945), 1-2. 
2 
Science and Amat 
Royal Soc let y (New York, 1948). 
^ Bates, 2-3. 
* Bates, 7-8. 
5 
See Max Meisel, Bibliography of American Natural History : 
The Pioneer Century . 1769-1865 (Brooklyn, New York, 1926) 
II, for a list of these and other institutions. See also 
Bates, 20-84, passim . 
• American Journal of Science . I (1818), 203-204. 
' Act of Incorporation , Constitution and Bj Laws 
Academy of Natural Sciences (St. Louis, 1837), 14. 
• See Meisel, II, xi; III, ix; Bates, 51. 
Geological Report of An 
of the 
ington. Gales and Seaton, 1835. 
and Red Rivers. Wash 
Sess. , 
H^ Doc, V. 4, No. 513, Ser. No. 274. Also 23 Cong., 2 Sess 
Doc., V. 4, No. 153, Ser 
10 
George 
Years of American Geology. 
n 
(New Haven, 1924), 136-138, 161-165. 
Missouri Republican , March 6, 1836; Missouri Argus, Septen 
11, 25, 1836. It was printed in other western newspapers 
• Arkansas Gazette. July 21. 28; August 25; SeptemDer 1. 1 
^^ Merrill, 136-138, 161-165. 
as 
13 
14 
15 
XXXII (1837), 386. 
See Meisel, II, 275-387 for a list of the articles ^^ ^^^^ 
■' -' Science. See also Merrill. 127-208, passim 
As a boy of fourteen, George Engelmann ^f^ *"^!f ^/Ji^a^kfort 
ings of the Senkenberg Society of Natural History o „ 
am 
Ir^'Oeorle Engelmann Man of Science 
1 Review. XXIII, (1929), 168. 
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