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

[Fred Schueler]

On 2/19/2016 3:20 PM, John Grehan wrote:
> Its a very sobering list, many instances representing the best and worst of
> human nature.

* it's said that the National Museum of Canada (Canadian Museum of 
Nature) has never lost anyone in the field.

I've lost a brother, daughter, and father when they were in the field, 
through through traffic accidents and pre-existing conditions, not in 
any field activities.

fred.
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> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Neal Evenhuis <neale at bishopmuseum.org>
> wrote:
>
>> There is a blog by science writer Richard Conniff that lists various
>> unusual and untimely deaths of biologists:
>>
>> https://strangebehaviors.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/the-wall-of-the-dead/
>>
>> Schlagintweit is listed in a one-liner.
>>
>>
>> -Neal
>>
>> On Stardate 2/19/16, 6:50 AM, "Taxacom on behalf of John Grehan"
>> <taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu on behalf of calabar.john at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> There's probably a book in that subject (if not already published) on the
>>> untimely ends or timely escapes of naturalists. This story reminded me of
>>> J.D. Hooker's fortunate temporary incarceration, and the less fortunate
>>> end
>>> to Nickolai Romanoff who was murdered by the Bolsheviks (which came to my
>>> attention with the moth Triodia mlokossevitschi (Romanoff, 1884). No doubt
>>> there are many other such stories.
>>>
>>> John Grehan
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Boggan, John <BOGGANJ at si.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> Email: bogganj at si.edu<mailto:Bogganj at si.edu>
>>>> Phone: (202) 633-0895
>>>> FAX: (202) 786-2563
>>>> Department website: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/botany
>>>> Type Register website: http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/types
>>>>
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