The life of C.S. Rafinesque
Subtitle: a man of uncommon zeal
By: by Charles Boewe
Series: Lightning Rod Press American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge -- v. 7
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9781606189221
Subjects: Botanists; Biography; Naturalists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Constantinople to Marseilles to Philadelphia and return to Europe; title: Here I was then, in Sicily; title: Sicily's "fruitful soil" and "deceitful women"; title: Starting over in the new world; title: Floating down "La Belle Rivière"; title: The Athens of the West; title: Man of affairs; title: Leaving Kentucky; title: Getting settled in Philadelphia; title: Medical botany; title: Family news from abroad; title: A turn for the better; title: Frantic publishing activity; title: Demise of Rafinesque; title: Postmortem.