Rafinesque's reputation: posthumous attacks

[John Bruner]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Jim Endersby wrote:
> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 03:18:29 -0500
> From: Jim Endersby <jje21 at CAM.AC.UK>
> To: TAXACOM at LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU
> Subject: [TAXACOM] Rafinesque's reputation: posthumous attacks
> Rafinesque's reputation: posthumous attacks
> I'm in the process of trying to finish a paper on Rafinesque's
> posthumous
> reputation and would be grateful if anyone who reads this list knows of
> any published attacks on him or his taxonomic work other than the one's
> I list below. Please feel free to email me directly (jje21 at cam.ac.uk)
> and I will post a summary to the list in due course. (And please don't
> send me your opinion as to why Rafinesque deserves to be condemned,
> unless you've published it somewhere!) Many thanks, Jim Endersby
> 1. Asa Gray "American Journal of Science" (1841).
> 2. J.D. Hooker "Flora Indica" (1855).
> 3. [various unpublished comments are collected in Stuckey, Ronald
> L. "Opinions of Rafinesque Expressed by His American Botanical
> Contemporaries", in Boewe's "Profiles of Rafinesque", 2003].
> 4. C.A. Weatherby "Kew Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information" (1935).
> 5. Henricus Quatre [Leon Croizat], "Archivo Botanico" (1948).
> 6. C.A. Weatherby at Seventh International Botanical Congress, Stockholm
> (1950).
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Dr Jim Endersby, Research Fellow
> Darwin College, University of Cambridge

Dear Dr. Jim Endersby:
        I would recommend the following book to you.  One of the
interesting points that comes out of this book is that Rafinesque's body
still lies underneath a soccer field in a Philadelphia park, and is not
buried in honor at the the campus of Transylvania University at Lexington,
Kentucky.

Boewe, Charles. (editor). 2003. Profiles of Rafinesque. The University of
Tennessee  Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. 456 pp., Illustrations.
Cloth Edition, $45.00s
Cloth ISBN: 1-57233-225-5
Status: In Print
Library of Congress No.: LC 2003004035
Publication Date: 6/18/2003

        John
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