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seven miles, in search of specimens which he found in North Elkhorn 

 creek and to investigate the ancient Indian forts which traverse this 

 farm.&quot; 



A second valuable account has been furnished by 

 General George W. Jones, of Dubuque, Iowa, who was 

 a student in Transylvania University from 1821 to 1825. 

 He writes : * 



&quot; I recollect the learned Professor Rafinesque perfectly well and 

 his physiognomy and general appearance are now visible to my 

 mind s eye. He was in personal stature about the size and appear 

 ance of my deceased friend, the late John Quincy Adams, but I 

 think he had a full suit of hair and black eyes. . . . Professor 

 Rafinesque had a room in College proper, and was a man of 

 peculiar habits and was very eccentric, but was to me one of the 

 most interesting men I have ever known.&quot; 



And again, in a letter replying to questions con 

 nected with the genuineness of one of the portraits of 

 Rafinesque, which is published in connection with this 

 memoir, General Jones writes: 



&quot;I do not think that either of the pictures of Professor Rafin 

 esque f represents him correctly as I remember him when I knew 

 him as Professor of Natural History in Transylvania University, in 

 Lexington, Kentucky, from 1821 to July, 1825. The photograph is 

 certainly a better likeness than the other picture. I never saw him 



* Letters dated August 25 and August 30, 1894. 



t These were a photograph of the painting of Rafinesque in the Wisconsin 

 Historical Society, and said to have been made by the celebrated Jouett, and 

 the portrait of Rafinesque published by the Popular Science Monthly in April, 

 1892. The Popular Science Monthly portrait appears to have been copied, 



