Rafinesque
Americannoun
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I’m entirely convinced that, as Rafinesque was with Audubon’s inventions, I’d be taken in by any of them.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2016
Rafinesque, an excellent piece in Atlas Obscura notes, “was an extremely enthusiastic namer of species: during his career as a naturalist, he named 2,700 plant genera and 6,700 species, approximately”.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2016
The piece on Rafinesque ends up with an expression of passionate connection with the Frenchman's strange pantheism.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2012
JJS’s best subject is himself, and the line goes a little slack sometimes when he’s not in play, as in his historical essay on the naturalist Constantine Rafinesque.
From Time ● Oct. 27, 2011
Rafinesque, an eccentric and visionary Frenchman, who passed the later years of his life in Philadelphia.
From Aboriginal American Authors by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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