Engelmann, George Mar. 23, 1857 [2] (seq. 4)

or any way; that he mistreated or hated
every body — botanist in Paris and would
so in America; he was spoken of with that
sort of haughty pity which is galling to
a sensitive mind; he was said to be half
demented in his suspicious character etc —
In Germany I have had a different version.
He was said to have been pushed aside
because not chiming in with those at the
head of his department etc. At all
events he seems to be a sensitive and
perhaps morbid mind, but should be en-
couraged, for we want in American help
in every branch of Science. Do you hear
any thing about him? or Torrey?

I have spent half of Decemb, Jan & Febr
with my old mother and my brothers and
sisters; unable to do any thing in
botany. Since March 1st I have been
to Goettingen and Leipzig much pleased
with the my reception there by Grisebach
and Mettenius, and by the medical
faculty. Poeppig has given up Botany
and works hard in Zoology. And now
I am here, where my wife & child came
to meet me. I spent a few days
in Braun's house till I could find
private lodgings ; he and his wife send
their compliments to you and Mrs Gray;
both of you are well and kindly remembered
in Braun's family. — My old friend has
grown very old, and is overwhelmed with
business other than scientifics. He is
deacon of the Philos. Faculty, Director of

the {botanical} garden etc and lectures a
good deal. He looks worn out. They
have preserved their South German, suebian
simplicity and kind heartedness with their
provisional dialect in this great Sodom;
he is universally respected and liked here,
but does not go much in Society, more than
is absolutely necessary; Humboldt, whom
I have not seen yet (he having been quite
sick — but has now recovered) does not seem
to favor him so much because his favorites
{Hermann} Schacht & Braun do not harmonize well.
Dr Caspari, now in Bonn, the intended of Marie
B's eldest daughter is here at presant; the
younger one, Cecilie, is a young lady of great
artistic talent and acquirements; they are
all very amiable, and the sons very kind
to Georgie. —

I found here several well known botanists,
{Hermann} Karsten of Venezuela, {Karl} Koch of the Caucasus,
Pritzel of the library and best of all {Johann} Klotzsch
of the Herbarium; poor K. sends his respects
to you; he is an acute botanist, but
perhaps too much of the closet — Kind — by
the way I like Grisebach's maxim, that
a botanist ought from time to time refresh
and rejunvinate his mind and his
eyes, dulled by looking at nothing but
mouldy on worm eaten herbarium specimens
by indulging in the delights of God's living
nature, by hunting up and examining
the plants as he madhe them etc. —

I say "poor Klotzsch" because he is
a doomed man, suffering from diabetes;
he holds a certain control over his disease
but it will finally kill him, and

I shall go from here to Paris and London in May. Chambray has critisized Agassiz part I
not very kindly.