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APRIL 4, 1884.] 
GEORGE ENGELMANN. 
GEORGE ENGELMANN was born in Frankfort- 
on-the-Main on the 2d of February, 1809. He 
died in St. Louis just after the completion of 
his seventy-fifth year, on the 4th of Februa- 
ry, 1884, very unexpectedly, and after an ill- 
ness which had kept him from his scientific 
work but a few 
days.* . 
Dr. Engel- ie 
mann received fee 
his medical  f& 
education and 
early scientific 
training at 
Berlin, Heidel- 
berg, and 
Frankfort. 
Agassiz, Alex- 
ander Braun, 
and Charles 
Schimper were 
among his col- 
lege-associates 
and lifelong 
friends. His 
determination 
to eStablish 
himself in the 
United States 
rust have been 
made early ; 
for he left Ger- 
many almost 
at once after 
graduation, 
reaching New 
York in 1832. 
His first visit 
was to Phila- 
delphia, at- 
tracted there 
by the scien- 
tific reputation 
of that city, 
where he 
was fortunate 
enough to make the acquaintance of Nuttall 
and other scientific men. His inclinations, 
however, still turned westward; and young 
Engelmann soon left the seaboard, to seek 
a home in the almost unexplored regions be- 
yond the Mississippi. He went first to St. 
Lonis, then scarcely more than a frontier trad- 
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1 ‘The announcement which appeared in a previous number of 
this journal, that Dr. Engelmann died on the 11th of February, 
was erroneous: he died on the 4th of February. 
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ing-post, influenced, no doubt, in this step by 
the fact that there was already a little colony 
of Germans located there. But Dr. Engelmann 
did not at once establish himself in St. Louis. 
With the deliberation and care which character- 
ized all the actions and studies of his life, he 
determined to see something of the western 
country before finally selecting a home. For 
this purpose he 
undertook a 
long and soli- 
tary journey 
on horse-back 
through south- 
western Mis- 
sourl, Arkan- 
sas, and west- 
ern Louisiana. 
This journey 
was probably 
made in 1833, 
and occupied 
six months. It 
nearly cost Dr. 
Engelmann his 
life; for the 
young travel- 
ler took a dan- 
gerous fever 
among the Ar- 
kansas swamps, 
into which his 
botanical zeal, 
no doubt, often 
led him. For- 
tunately he fell 
into the hands 
of a negro fam- 
ily, who nursed 
him faithfully 
through his 
long illness, 
which cut short 
further explo- 
ration, and 
hurried him 
back to St. 
Louis. 
Here Dr. Engelmann finally established him- 
self as a physicianin 1835. Hehad previously, 
however, gone to Germany, and on his return 
had brought back with him, to his new home, 
the faithful and devoted companion who shared 
his labors, his trials and triumphs, for more 
than forty years. From 1835 until his death 
Dr. Engelmann continued to live in St. Louis, 
and to devote to scientific investigations every 
moment which could be spared from a large 
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