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Correspondence from George Engelman to Garland Carr Broadhead 1864-1884
Correspondence from George Engelman to the Academy of Science of St. Louis 1906: March
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| Creator | Engelmann, George, 1809-1884 | |
| Title | George Engelmann. Papers, | |
| Dates: | 1864-1884. | |
| Quantity: | 40 items | |
| Identification: | MSS041 | |
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George Engelmann (2 February 1809 – 4 February 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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The collection consists of letters from Engelmann to 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.
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From the Academy of Science of St. Louis. Accession 894.
Interfiled within collection or by accession at end of collection.
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