BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Raffles, Thomas Stamford Bingley (Sir), —Born 1781. Died 1826. Great English 
Governor and Naturalist. Memoir in Jardine’s Naturalists’ Library, Ornith., Vol. IV., 
1834. 
Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., pt. 2, pp. 277-340, 1822. 
Second part of the Descriptive Catalogue of a Zoological Collection made . . . 
in the Island of Sumatra and its Vicinity (read March 20th, 1821). 
Sterna sumatrana, Scolopax sumatrana , Ardea sumatrana . 
Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. —Born 1783. Died 1840. Also known as 
Kafinesque-Schmaltz. One of the most wonderful geniuses that natural science has yet 
seen, half a century ahead of his time, and erratic through discontent at his non- 
recognition, unfortunate in every way. Left Europe for America, landed from a 
shipwreck with loss of all his works, MSS. and collections. Endowed with wonderful 
imagination, he purposed a series of works dealing with the Fauna and Flora of North 
America, still unequalled even in the imagination of any naturalist. 
He died in abject poverty, in an attic, in Philadelphia, leaving one of the longest, 
if not the longest, wills ever filed in that city. Creditors contemplated selling his body 
to a medical college, but lie was finally buried. Recently the Philadelphia naturalists 
placed a slab over his grave. Rafinesque’s body was one of three placed one above 
the other in one grave. The others are unknown paupers. 
His remains were carefully removed from the cemetery in Philadelphia in 1919 
and taken to Lexington, Kentucky, where they were installed in Transylvania 
University, in which institution Rafinesque w r as a professor one hundred years ago. 
He has now received his long overdue reward. 
Principes fondamentaux de Somiologie, 8vo, Palermo, 1814. (Sept.) 
Apodium. 
Analyse de la Nature, 8vo, Palermo, 1815. 
The bird portion of this interesting work was reprinted in the Auk, Vol. XXVI., 
pp. 50 et seq ., Jan. 1909. 
Priamphus , Onocralus , Catacus , Anassus, Sularius , Garbonarius. 
Kentucky Gazette (also quoted as the Cosmonist), Vol. 36, new series, Vol. I., No. 8, 
p. 3* col. 5, Feb. 21st, 1822. 
Chlidonias. 
[His series of papers were called the Cosmonist No. 1, 2, etc. The Kentucky Gazette 
was not quoted under the name Cosmonist.—C.W.R.J 
See Auk, Vol. 29, p. 197, April, 1912, where Rhoads has reprinted this account. 
Ramsay, Edward Pierson. —-The first great Ornithologist produced by Australia. Born. 
1842, died Dec. 16th, 1916. Obituary notice and portrait in the Emu, Vol. XVI., 
p. 241, 1917. 
His early contributions were published in the Ibis and the Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society of London, but his later ones in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New 
South Wales. To the first-named, the Ibis, the notes in the volumes for 1863, 1865 and 
1867, w T ere mostly about breeding-habits, but a name Zosterops australis (1863, p. 180) 
was printed in error, and in Ibis, 1867, p. 255, the name Pardalotus leadbeateri w r as printed 
to invite discussion, though it had been anticipated. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1866, pp. 438-440, April 1867. 
Description of a new species of Atrichia from the Richmond River, New South n ales. 
Atrichia rufescens. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1868, pp. 381-388, Oct. 1st. 
On certain New and Rare Species of Birds found at Rockingham Bay, Queensland*. 
Ophryzone , Orfhonyx spaldingi, Gliciphila subfasciata. 
Proc.Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, pp. 578-603, April 1st, 1876, Parti. ; 
1876, pp. 11L-123, June 1st, 1876, Part n.; 
1877, pp. 335-351, Aug. 1st, 1877, Part Hi. 
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