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September, 2005
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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
A Voice in the American Wilderness

By Leonard Warren
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Pp. xiv, 252. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $40.00.)

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque was arguably the oddest naturalist of his time. In the early nineteenth century he knew as much botany, zoology, and history as most men in those fields, and he published works on archaeology, linguistics, medicine, and banking as well. So how did this gifted man, a kind of walking curiosity museum, manage to outrage so many of his scientific contemporaries? Leonard Warren's biography of Rafinesque seeks to answer this question, and to further rehabilitate his scientific reputation. Warren does a fine job of illuminating Rafinesque and his obsessive drive to find and catalogue new species; what is more, the author examines in depth the troubling aspects of Rafinesque's character and work. . . .
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