Profiles of Rafinesque / edited by Charles Boewe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boewe, Charles E., 1924-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840.

Rafinesque, C. S.

Naturalists--United States--Biography.

Naturalists.

United States.

Naturalists--France--Biography.

France.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xli, 411 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction: Evolution of the Rafinesque Biography / Charles Boewe xv

I. The Man

I. The Life and Work of Rafinesque / Francis W. Pennell 3

II. Genealogical Note on the Rafinesque Family / Georges Reynaud 67

III. The Last Days of Rafinesque / Charles Boewe 80

IV. Rafinesque Portraits / Charles Boewe 99

II. The Naturalist

V. Rafinesque among the Field Naturalists / Charles Boewe 111

VI. Rafinesque on Classification / Arthur J. Cain 125

VII. The Historical Background and Literary Sources of Rafinesque's Mammalian Taxonomy / Charles Boewe 143

VIII. Opinions of Rafinesque Expressed by His American Botanical Contemporaries / Ronald L. Stuckey 154

IX. Rafinesque: A Concrete Case / "Henricus Quatre" [Leon Croizat] 179

X. Rebuttal / Elmer D. Merrill 194

XI. The Fall from Grace of that "Base Wretch" Rafinesque / Charles Boewe 203

III. The Philologist

XII. Rafinesque's Linguistic Activity / Vilen V. Belyi 219

XIII. Unraveling the Walam Olum / David M. Oestreicher 233

XIV. Indian Languages and the Prix Volney / Charles Boewe 241

XV. The Beginning of Maya Hieroglyphic Study: Contributions of Constantine S. Rafinesque and James H. McCulloh, Jr. / George E. Stuart 271

IV. The Writer

XVI. The Medicine and Medicinal Plants of Rafinesque / Michael A. Flannery 295

XVII. Rafinesque's Sentimental Botany: The School of Flora / Beverly Seaton 323

XVIII. The Fugitive Publications of Rafinesque / Charles Boewe 340

V. The Legend

XIX. The Eccentric Naturalist / John James Audubon 367

XX. Who's Buried in Rafinesque's Tomb? / Charles Boewe 373.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1572332255

OCLC:

51770162