GEORGE ENGELMANN l6l 



Europe in 1856 and stayed there two years, di- 

 recting the engraving of the plates for this work. 



Many other papers on botany were also pub- 

 lished by him at different times: The Yucca, 

 The Agave, The Conifera, The American Oaks, 

 etc. His publications on the North American 

 vines deserve particular mention for their im- 

 portance to the grape-growers of this country 

 and of Europe. In 1856 he originated the St. 

 Louis Academy of Science, of which he was first 

 president. 



His name has been given to a monotypic genus 

 of plants, Engelmannia, by Torrey and Gray. 

 There are many letters to Engelmann in The Let- 

 ters of Asa Gray, and in one (1841) he refers to 

 a species named after his friend ; '' Eupatorium 

 Engelmannianum, sp. nov. Am. Bor., semina 

 misit Engelmann. Can this be it, think you? If 

 so, pray help me to it, and to anything else you 

 can, as I mean to give addenda et corrigenda to 

 the Gompositae at the end of the order if I ever 

 get through this formidable job. No wonder 

 seven years' labor at them ruined De Candolle's 

 health. You know he is dead? " 



There is another letter from the cheery Gray 

 worth quoting. Writing to Engelmann on July 

 4, 1 877, he says : 

 " Dear old E. : 



"Never mind if you are seventy; Hooker is 

 sixty, and I am between, and we are lively yet. 



