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Harvard University, at Cambridge, Mass. His first work was ~ 
published 1834-1835, “ North American Graminee and Cyper- 
ace,’ two volumes, containing each one hundred species, illus- 
trated by dried specimens. It was followed by “ Elements of 
ey ” 1836; “ Melanthacearum Americe septentrionalis rey 
visio,” 1837; the “ Botanical Textbook,” 1842 (third edition, 1850); 
“Chloris Americana,” illustrations of new, rare and otherwise | 
interesting North Americam plants. Decade 1, with ten beautiful 
plates, 1846 (not continued). The first edition of his well-known ~ 
“ Manual of the Botany of the Northern States,” appeared in 1848, 
and was followed by many editions. ‘‘ Genera Flore Americ 
boreali-orientalis illustrata, Vol. 1 and 11, with 186 tables,” from 
Ranunculacezee to Terebinthaceze, was not continued. Already 
mentioned are many of his contributions in public documents, ` 
Smithsonian publications and scientific periodicals, too numeroni 
to be all named, but all of the greatest value. 
George Engelmann, born in 1810, in Frankfurt-on-the- Main, | 
came to America about the year 1834, and has resided since that — 
time in St. Louis, Missouri. Except his writings mentioned above, ~ 
he has published, in different periodicals, a number of mono- 
graphs of difficult orders and genera, e. g., Cactaceæ, 1856, Cusi 
cutæ, 1859. His papers on North American Juncus, Quercus, 
Yucca, some Coniferæ and Gentianæ are later. a 
-© Other active botanists of that period are -A. Wood, who p be 
gen a “ Classbook of Botany,” which is much in use. There is 
“ Botany of the Northern States,’ by L. C. Beck, professor mi 
‘Albay: who lived from 1798 to 1853; a “North American 
Botany,” by Eaton and Wright; an “ Introduction to Botany, — 
by Comstock ; an “American Flora,” by Strong; a “ rie -g 
the Southern Sites ” by Darby. « Ch-fa—n—— A 
Local floras and catalogues of plants were compiled, by Dewey 
1826, by Dr. L. C. Beck, and, 1843, by C. Geyer, with notes by Dr. 
Engelmann, both in Si/iman's Fournal, then 1845, by Dr. C. WwW 
Short in the Western Journal of Medicine. Much has been dont 
