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http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/walamc.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_Samuel_Rafinesque

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29350

http://kdl.kyvl.org/static/books/kyetexts/kyetexts_KUK-b92-46-2694688...

http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/rafin.html

http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/hugegar.html

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http://www.gardenbooks.org/programr.htm

http://www.archive.org/details/manualofmedicalb00rafi

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"By Rafinesque's own count, he published 220 "works, pamphets, essays, and
tracts," yet he left as great a bulk in manuscript, most of which was sold
as junk after his death. Best known for remarkable fecundity in divising
scientific names-6,700 in botany alone-Rafinesque also had some insight into
a number of theoretical issues in biology that became important later: the
impermanence of species, the significance of fossils in dating sedimentary
geological strata, and such ecological considerations as plant geography and
plant succession."

Excerpt from a Rafinesque publication.
"A new Religion or sect has been founded upon this belief the Mormonites,
thus called after a new Alcoran <Quran>, or Book of Mormon, (which is not a
Jewish name.) Supposed to be written in gold letters more than 2000 years
ago by Mormon, leader of the American Jews. This Book which no one has seen
nor read but the founder of the sect <Joseph Smith> , the probable writer
thereof, has made the Bible of a new sect. I have tried in vain to procure a
copy of the translation, wherein I could certainly detect a crowd of
absurdities and incogruities. Meanwhile a Sect of Fanatics has arisen
therefrom,"

(Late one night in 1823 Joseph Smith, Jr.,
was reportedly visited in his family's farmhouse in upstate New York
by an angel named Moroni.)

Charles Robert Darwin, (1809-1882)
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783-1840)

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