192 The Life and Writings of 



It will readily be noted that this publication has 

 absolutely no scientific value. The full lists of notes 

 and articles by Rafinesque have been given with the 

 sole hope of thus furnishing additional basis for a 

 judgment concerning the value of his later work. 



175. A | Monograph | of the | Fluviatile Bivalve Shells | of the River 



Ohio, | containing | Twelve Genera & Sixty-eight Species. | 



| Translated from the French of C. S. Rafinesque, Prof. 



Bot. | and Nat. Hist, in Transylvania University. | | Phil 

 adelphia: | J. Dobson, 108 Chestnut Street. | 1832. (i2mo, 

 pp. i-vi, 7-72.) i, pi. unio verrueosa Ref. 



This is an English translation of Rafinesque s earlier 

 work on the shells of the Ohio River, published by his 

 friend Poulson, of Philadelphia. A favorable review by 

 Doctor Harlan, afterward a bitter enemy, may be found 

 in the Monthly American Journal of Geology, Vol. I, 

 No. 8, pp. 372-375, February, 1832. 



176. Visit to Big-Bone Lick, in 1821. By C. S. Rafinesque, Professor 



of Historical and Natural Sciences, etc. (The Monthly Amer 

 ican Journal of Geology and Natural Sciences, Vol. I, No. 8, 

 February, pp. 355~35 8 - l8 3 2 - 



A critique, with additional information, of an article 

 by William Cooper, in numbers four and five of the 

 same journal. Cooper gives a most excellent map of 

 the locality. 



