Excerpt from Rafinesque: A Sketch of His Life With Bibliography The inception of this work is to be credited to the late Honorable Charles Aldrich who knew of the writer's interest in the career of Rafinesque and in Rafinesquiana and only to his kindly request and persistent urging is this volume due. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.