62 A. Gray—Memorial of George Engelmann. 
in Medicine in the summer of 1831. His inaugural dissertation, 
De Antholysi Prodromus, which he published at Frankfort in 
1882, testifies to his early predilection for botany, and to his 
truly scientific turn of mind. It is a morphological dissertation, 
founded chiefly on the study of monstrosities, illustrated by five 
’ plates filled with his own drawings. It was therefore quite in 
the line with the little treatise on the Metamorphosis of Plants, 
published forty years before by another and the most distin- 
inquiries after young Engelmann, who, he said, had completely 
apprehended his ideas of vegetable morphology, and had shown 
such genius in their development that he offered to place in 
this young botanist’s hands the store of unpublished notes and 3 
sketches which he had accumulated. 
The spring and summer of 1832 were passed at Parisin med- | _ 
ical and scientific studies, with Braun and Agassiz as compan- 
ions, leading, as he records “a glorious life in scientific union, 
in spite of the cholera.” Meanwhile, Dr. Engelmann’s uncles 
had resolved to make some land investments in the valley of 
the Mississippi, and he willingly became their agent. At least — 
one of the family was already settled in Illinois, not far from 
St. Louis. Dr. Engelmann, sailing from Bremen for Baltimore 
in September, joined his relatives in the course of the winter, 
made many lonely and somewhat adventurous journeys on 
horseback in Southern Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas, which 
yielded no other fruits than those of botanical exploration ; 
and finally he established himself in the practice of, medicine 
at St. Louis, late in the autumn of 1835. St. Louis was then 
voyage to Germany, and, fulfilling a long-standing engagement, 
for bringing to a frugal home the chosen companion of his life, 
Dora Hartsmann, bis cousin, whom he married at Kreuznach, 
on the 11th of June, 1840. On his way homeward, at New 
York, the writer of this memorial formed the personal acquaint- 
ance of Dr. Engelmann; and thus began the friendship and the 
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scientific association which has continued unbroken for almost | 
half a century. 
* The manuscript — of the Antholysis, in German, with the neat orig- 
inal drawings (the gift of the son), is now preserved in the Library of the Her~ — 
barium of Harvard University. 
