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A MEETING of the American Association in St. Louis is of special interest to botanists. When this city was little more than a frontier town, Dr. George Englemann became one of its citizens. In spite of his duties as a successful physician, he became one of our greatest botanists; in fact, in the days when taxonomy was practically the whole of botany, and our virgin flora was being explored, the great American trio of botanists was Asa Gray (of Cambridge, Mass.), John Torrey (of New York), and George Englemann (of St. Louis). Englemann's distinction was that he published no general botanical works, but selected a series of the most difficult problems in taxonomy, and in a masterly way organised for us many perplexing groups. With these groups his name will always be associated. To a botanist, therefore, St. Louis means the home of George Englemann.
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The Evolution of Botanical Research 1 . Nature 104, 581–585 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104581d0
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