> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 754](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120885) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/18505-1) LSID 18505-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214946) QID Q214946 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Engelmann, George (Georg) (Suppl.)|second entry]] for this author ### Author Engelmann, Georg (1809-1884), American physician and botanist of German birth who settled at St. Louis, Missouri. **Abbreviated name**: *Engelm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Engelm.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection MO|MO]]. – Part of the cultivated plants from the Engelmann herbarium may not be present at [[Collection MO|MO]]. Engelmann's detailed manuscript notes, containing much unpublished information (20.000 slips) are also preserved at [[Collection MO|MO]]. – The plates (steel engravings) for the "Cactaceae of the Boundary" are at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Plants from Engelmann's early years in Germany were in the Alexander Braun herbarium at [[Collection B|B]]. – Duplicates see IH. *Ref*.: IH 1 (ed. 6): 358, 2: 183. - White, Nat. Acad. Sc. Biogr. Mem. 4: 1-21. 1902. - Urban, Gesch. Berlin-Dahlem 271, 286, 298, 344. 1916. - Lawton, Missouri Bot. Gard. Bull. 56(6): 10-17. 1968. - Goulding, Rec. Auckland Inst. Mus. 11: 116. 1974. #### Bibliography and biography AG 1: 202; Barnhart 1: 510; BM 2: 531, 6: 303; Bossert p. 117; CSP 2: 498-499, 7: 613-614, 9: 798-7995 12: 221, 14: 847; DAB 6: 159-160; Jackson p. 543 \[index\]; Langman p. 263-264 (many refs. comb. work); ME 1: 182 \[biographies\], 3: 571-572 \[index\]; Merrill p. 695, 721; MW p. 108; NI 601-604; PR 2710-2716; Quenstedt p. 129. - Anon., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 11: 38-41. 1884 (from Science). - Anon., Flora 67: 225. 1884. - Urban, Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 2: xii-xv. 1884. - Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Sci. 19: 516-522. 1884. - Masters, Nature 29: 599. 1884. - Gray, Amer. J. Sci. ser. 3. 28: 61-69. 1884, also Scient. pap. 2: 439-446. 1889. - Sargent, Bot. Gaz. 9(5): 69-74. 184 (bibl.) - Sander, Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 4(4): 1-18. 1886 (portr.) - Anon., Popular Sci. Monthly 29: 260-265. 1886 (portr.) - Trelease and Gray, The botanical works of the late George Engelmann, Cambridge Mass. 1887, 2 vols, \[biogr. p. iii-vi\]. - Gray, Letters 2: 832 \[index\]. 1893. - Harshberger, Botanists Philadelphia 280, 282, 286, 1899. - Blum, Ber. Senckenb. naturf. Ges., Wiss. Abh. 1901: 19. - White, Biogr. Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci. 4: 1-21. 1902 (portr.) - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 124, 178. 1903, 3(3): 123, 194, *pl. 147.* 1905 (portr.) - Spaulding, Popular Sci. Monthly 1909: 125-129. (portr.) - Reynolds Green, Hist. Bot. 514. 1909. - Kelly, Some American medical botanists 157-162. 1914. - Kelly and Burrage, American medical biographies 365-366. 1920. - Bek, Missouri hist. Rev. 23: 167-206, 427-446, 517-535. 1929, 24: 66-86. 1930. - Rodgers, Noble Fellow Sullivant 347 \[index\]. 1940. - Rodgers, John Torrey 340 \[index\]. 1942. - Rodgers, Amer. Bot. 1873-1892, p. 327 \[index\]. 1944. - Rodgers, John Merle Coulter 313 \[index\]. 1944. - Geiser, Naturalists of the Frontier 291\[index\]. 1948. - Rodgers, Liberty Hyde Bailey 494. 1949. - McVaugh, Edward Palmer 423 \[index\]. 1959. - Dupree, Asa Gray 486 \[index\]. 1959. - Humphrey, Makers of N. Amer. Bot. 81-82. 1961. - Newton, Cactus and Succulent J. 17(3): 43-45. 1962. - Graustein, Thomas Nuttall 465 \[index\]. 1967. - Lawton, Missouri bot. Gard. Bull. 56(6): 10-17. 1968. - James, The trees of Bicton 108. 1969. - Ewan, Short History Botany U.S. 165 \[index\]. 1969. - Jackson and Spence, The Expeditions of John Charles Frémont 1: 829 \[index\]. 1970. - Beidleman, Horticulture 48(4): 42-43, 53. 1970. - Sutton, Charles Sutton Sargent 374 \[index\]. 1970. - Soule, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 57(2): 135-144. 1970 (Publ. 1971). - Lenley et al., Cat. arch. Coll. NYBG 154, 455. 1973 (letters to Torrey). - Mitich, Excelsa 4: 31-39. 1974. #### Composite works Engelmann contributed to various reports on expeditions and surveys: see BM 2: 531 and ME 3: 572. #### Eponymy *Engelmannia* Klotzsch (1841); *Engelmannia* L. Pfeiffer (1845). #### Handwriting Candollea 29: 493-494. 1974. ### Publications ##### n.1689. De antholysi prodromus **Title** *De antholysi prodromus*. Dissertatio inauguralis phytomorphologica auctore Dre. Georgio Engelmann Moeno Francofurtano. Cum xciii iconibus in tabulis v lithograptis. Frankfurt a.M. (H. L. Broenner) 1832. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Anthol. prodr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan-Feb 1832 (Lit. Ber. Flora 2: 64. Feb-Mai 1832), p. \[i\]-viii, \[9\]-68, \[i\]-vi, *pl. 1-5. Copies*: MO, NY. – A second copy at MO has a special cover for the Plates with text: "Icones florum antholyticorum, " Frankfurt a.M. 1832. *Ref*.: BM 2: 532; NI 601; PR 2710. ##### n.1690. Plantae lindheimerianae **Title** *Plantae lindheimerianae*; an enumeration of F. Lindheimer's collection of Texan Plants, with remarks, and descriptions of new species, etc. Boston (Freeman and Bolles) 1845-1850, 2 parts, Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Pl. lindheim.* **Notes** *Collector*: Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer (1801-1879), first set at GH. *Co-authors*: Asa Gray (1810-1888); Joseph William Blankinship (1862-1938). *Part 1*: Oct 1845, p. \[1\]-56. *Copies*: MO, US. – Independently paged reprint, with new t.p. \[1\], from.J Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 5: 210\[= 2\]-264\[= 56\]. Oct 1845. By Engelmann and Gray. *Part 2*: J. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 6: \[141\]-240. Jan 1850; no independent reprint known to me, Engelmann's own copy at MO is also the part of the journal itself. By Asa Gray. *Part 3*: by J. W. Blankinship, 25 Nov 1907 (cover), 18th. Ann. Rep. Missouri Bot. Gard. 123-223,. *pl*., 1 portr., biogr. of Lindheimer on p. 127-141. *Ref*.: BM 2: 531, 6: 303; Jackson p. 365; PR 2711. - Watson and Goodale, Amer. J. Sci. 136 (app.): 4-5. 1888. ##### n.1691. Description of the Cactaceae **Title** *Description of the Cactaceae* by George Engelmann... and John Bigelow..., *in *Whipple, A. W. and Ives, J. C, \[Report of\] explorations for a railway route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, \[vol. 4, part 5\] Report on the botany of the Expedition, Washington, D.C. 1856, Qu., no. 3, p. 27-58, \[2\], *plates i-xxiv*. **Abbreviated title**: *Descr. Cact.* **Notes** *Co-author*: John Milton Bigelow (1804-1878). *Publ*.: 1856 – Even though vol. 4, part 5, no. 4 \[Torrey\] is dated 1857, the first three numbers must be assumed to have been Published in 1856. The Utrecht copy has a special title-page for the Torrey paper dated 1857, not recorded in the usual bibliographies. – The plates accompanying the Engelmann (p. \[27\]-58) and Bigelow paper are uncoloured lithographs marked "Cactaceae, plate i\[-xxiv\]" by Paulus Roetter (in part after H. B. Möllhausen). *Copies*: MO, NY, U. *Ref*.: BM 2: 531; Jackson p. 358; NI 604. - Johnston, J. Arnold Arb. 24: 237-242. 1943. ##### n.1692. Synopsis of the Cactaceae of the territory of the United States **Title** *Synopsis of the Cactaceae of the territory of the United States* and adjacent regions... \[From the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. III\]. Cambridge (Metcalf and Company) 1856. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Syn. Cact. U.S.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1856 (after 13 Mar), p. \[1\]-59. *Copies*: MO, NY. – Reprinted from Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 3: 259-311. 1856. *Ref*.: PR 2712; IDC 7534. - Hooker, London J. Bot. 9: 86-88. 1857. - Anon., Flora 40: 416. 14 Jul 1857, 41: 125-127. 28 Feb 1858. ##### n.1693. Systematic arrangement of the species of the genus Cuscuta **Title** *Systematic arrangement of the species of the genus Cuscuta* with critical remarks on old species and descriptions of new ones... Extract from the Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis vol. I, no. 3, page 453. St. Louis (George Knapp & Co.) 1859. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Syst. arr. Cuscuta*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Oct 1859, in the Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 1 (3): 453-523. 1859. Reprints with a separate t.p., as above, dated 1859, have a double pagination: t.p. \[1\], inner margin 3-73, outer margin \[453-523\]. Engelmann's own copy of the detached pages of the Transactions 1 (3) is marked in his hand 'Publ. Oct 1859' \[G. B. van Schaack\]. *Copies* of reprint: MO, NY. *Ref*.: BM 2: 531; Jackson p. 130; PR 2715. - Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 18: 199-200. 1 Jun 1860. - Anon., Flora 43: 336. 7 Jun 1860, 345-348. 14 Jun 1860. ##### n.1694. Generis Cuscutae species **Title** *Generis Cuscutae species* secundum ordinem systematicum dispositae adjectis in prius jam notas observationibus criticis nec non novarum descriptionibus auctore Georgio Engelmann, M.D. Latine vertit Paulus Ascherson, M.D. Praefatus est Alexander Braun, Ph.D.... Berlin (Gustavus Bosselmann) 1860. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Gen. Cuscut. sp.* **Notes** *Publ*.: A Latin translation of the above Publication with additional notes and an introduction by Alexander Braun. Translation by Ascherson. Published 1 Mai-17 Aug 1860, p. \[i\]-viii, \[1\]-87, \[88, err.\]. *Copies*: MO, U. *Ref*.: Jackson p. 130; MW p. 108; PR 2715. - Schlechtendal, Bot. Zeit. 18: 292. 17 Aug 1860. - Garcke, Bonplandia 8: 289. 15 Sep 1860. ##### n.1695. Report on the botany of the Expedition **Title** *Report on the botany of the Expedition* by Dr. George Engelmann. \[headlines:\] Engineer Department, U.S. Army. Explorations across the Great Basin of Utah in 1859. In charge of Capt. J. H. Simpson, topographical engineers. Washington 1876. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Rep. bot. Exped.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1876, p. \[i, t.p. reprint\], \[433\]-447, *plates 1-3*, uncol. liths. by Paulus Roetter. Reprint *copy*: FAS. – Reprinted from: J. H. Simpson, Report of exploration across the Great Basin of the Territory of Utah... Washington 1876. Qu., 518 p., *24 pl*., appendix M. (see ME 3: 285-286). *Leader of expedition*: James Hervey Simpson (1812-1883). *Collector*: Henry Engelmann, geologist and meteorologist of the expedition, brother of George Engelmann. ##### n.1695a. Revision of the genus Pinus **Title** *Revision of the genus Pinus*, and descriptions of Pinus elliottii. St. Louis, Mo. (R. P. Studley & Co.) 1880. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Rev. Pinus*. **Notes** *Publ*.: Feb 1880 (t.p. reprint; Nat. Nov. Mai 1880), as a reprint with a special cover as t.p. and double pagination (1-29 + 2 unnumbered pages, and 161-189) on large paper, the size of the – unfolded – plates (27 1/2 × 42 cm). Also Published in the *Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis*, 4(1): 161-189. 1880. The three plates are lithographs by Paulus Roetter. *Copies*: FAS, MO. *Ref*.: Jackson p. 140; MW p. 108. ##### n.1696. The botanical works of the late George Engelmann **Title** *The botanical works of the late George Engelmann* collected for Henry Shaw, Esq. Edited by William Trelease and Asa Gray. Cambridge (John Wilson and son) 1887. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Bot. works Engelm.* **Notes** *Editors*: Asa Gray (1810-1888); William Trelease (1857-1945); Henry Shaw (1800-1889). *Publ*.: Apr-Dec 1887 (p. ii: 25 Mar 1887), frontisp. portr., p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-ix, \[11\]-548, plates Cact. Mex. Boundary: \[i, h.t.\], \[ii, text to frontisp.\], *nos. 1-75*, uncol. liths. by Paulus Roetter; plates Cact. Whipple's Exp. \[i, h.t.\], *nos. 1-24*, unsigned uncol. liths.; plates Cact. Simpson's Exp., \[i, h.t.\], *nos. 1-3. Copies*: MICH, NY, US. *Ref*.: BM 2: 531; NI 603.