Title: George Engelmann Papers (MSS041), 1864-1884
Predominant Dates:1864-1884
ID: MSS/MSS/041
Primary Creator: Engelmann, George, 1809-1884
Extent: 1.0 Boxes
Date Acquired: 02/07/1968
Languages: English
George Engelmann (February 2, 1809 – February 4, 1884) was a German-American botanist. He was instrumental in describing the flora of the west of North America, then very poorly-known; he was particularly active in the Rocky Mountains and northern Mexico.
Engelmann's botanical collection, valuable as containing the original specimens from which many western plants have been named and described, was given to the Missouri Botanical Garden. This gift led to the founding of the Henry Shaw School of Botany as a department of Washington University, St. Louis, where an Engelmann professorship of botany has been established by Shaw in his honor.
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Acquisition Source: Gift of the Academy of Science of St. Louis
Acquisition Method: Accession number 894
Preferred Citation: Name of the Collection, Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections
