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RAFINESQUE was a peculiar character who, in the course of a vagrant life of fifty-seven years, worked according to himself as "a Botanist, Naturalist, Geologist, Geographer, Historian, Poet, Philosopher, Philologist, Economist and Philanthropist". But primarily he was a plant taxonomist, whose work. Dr. Merrill suggests in the foreword to this volume, has not received the attention that it deserves.
A Life of Travels
By C. S. Rafinesque. Being a verbatim and literatim reprint of the original and only edition (Philadelphia, 1836). Foreword by Elmer D. Merrill; Critical Index by Francis W. Pennell. (Chronica Botanica, Vol. 8, No. 2.) Pp. 291–360 + plates 5–8. (Waltham, Mass.: Chronica Botanica Company; London: Wm. Dawson and Sons, Ltd., 1944.) 2.50 dollars.
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BROWN, R. A Life of Travels. Nature 155, 496 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155496a0
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