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physician, &quot;took eight copies&quot;, another took &quot;a lot&quot;. 

 The books are now much sought after and possess a 

 certain intrinsic value which did not then seem to be 

 appreciated. The final settlement of the estate left it 

 indebted to the administrator in the sum of fourteen 

 dollars and forty -three cents. Rafinesque appears to 

 have been despoiled of his rights in nomenclature while 

 living; he was despoiled of his possessions when dead. 



THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF RAFINESQUE. 



There are living very few persons who have seen 

 Rafinesque. But since interest always attaches to the 

 physique of remarkable men, the attempt was made to 

 obtain descriptive accounts from such as still might be 

 alive. In this matter there has been a certain measure 

 of success. The portraits which, accompany this work 

 will disclose the rest. 



The published description of Rafinesque by Audubon* 

 has long been the only source of information as to his 

 personality, and is reproduced here because chronologic 

 ally the first. Audubon writes as follows: 



&quot;A long loose coat of yellow nankeen, much the worse of the 

 many rubs it had got in its time, and stained all over with the juice 



* Vide Ornithological Biography, Vol. I, p. 456. 



