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lishing of a savings. bank. This latter seems to have met with 
Success, but although it was in existence at the time of his death, 
his end came to him amidst surroundings of absolute poverty, 
alone, in a garret in a poor quarter of Philadelphia in 1840.* 
His estate consisted entirely of personal property—mostly 
books, unpublished manuscript and specimens of natural history. 
The latter had suffered much from his inability to properly care 
for them, and a large part of his plant collection was sold as waste 
Paper. Eight dray loads comprised the material which he left 
behind. Some of this is yet preserved in the National Museum; 
another portion was secured by the University of Pennsylvania 
through Mr, Isaac Burk, and many of his botanical specimens 
finally went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, and the Philadel- 
phia Academy of Natural Sciences. The final settlement of his 
estate left it indebted to the administrator in the sum of $14.43. 
This, in brief, is the outline of his life as given in the first sixty- 
nine pages of the volume. Accompanying this are two portraits, 
One taken from a painting in the collection of the Wisconsin His- 
torical Society, the date of which is uncertain, and another as he 
appeared in 1810 at the age of twenty-seven, besides which there 
is a photographic reproduction of one of his letters to DeCandolle, 
written in 1838. 
Following this is a bibliography, arranged in chronologic 
Sequence, enumerating 203 publications, containing 420 titles. It 
is almost impossible to conceive, in these days of specialization, 
the wide range of his mental activity of which these give evidence. 
Botany, Zodlogy, History, Social and Political Economy, Mete- 
orology, Geology, Poetry, Philosophy, Book Reviews, Jour- 
nals of Travel, Astronomy, Physics, Archaeology, Ethnology, 
Medicine and other subjects which might be classed as subdivi- 
sions of the above, all received his attention. 
There is also a chapter devoted to a list of publications in 
which Rafinesque or his works are mentioned by other authors 
and an appendix giving a copy of his will, which, in addition to 
the part describing as to how he wishes his property to be dis- 
* According to an article by Thos. Meehan, published in the Philadelphia Public. 
Ledger a few years ago, the exact date of which is unknown to me, Rafinesque is 
Said to have died September 18, 1842. 
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