George Engelmann Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-MS-ms041

Staff Only

The George Engelmann Papers consists of letters from Engelmann to Garland Carr Broadhead concerning nomenclature and classification of plant specimens collected by Broadhead, with occasional other botanical notes. Included is one letter, March 1906, from Broadhead to the Academy of Science of St. Louis, giving the letters to the Academy and explaining their origin.

Dates

Creation: 1864-1884

Creator

Engelmann, George, 1809-1884 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open

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Extent

1.00 boxes

0.25 linear feet

Additional Description

Biographical or Historical Information

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.