[Taxacom] Herbarium Schlagintweit: the case of the beheaded botanist

[Boggan, John]

While working with some specimens in the United States National Herbarium, I stumbled across the fascinating story of Adolphe Schlagintweit and wrote about it in my personal blog: http://dctropics.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-beheaded-botanist.html

John Boggan
Type Specimen Register Project
United States National Herbarium
Dept. of Botany, MRC 166
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012

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