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

[Michael Heads]

I always thought that John Banister fell off a cliff collecting specimens.
I checked and found this:


The accounts of Banister's death vary with each reporter. One says

that he was accidentally shot; one that he fell from a cliff in pursuit of

his objective; and a descendant that he was struck by a falling tree. We

have no way of knowing which version is correct. We do know that he

died about 1692 somewhere on the Roanoke River while on a botanical

expedition.

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 8:29 AM, 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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Dunedin, New Zealand.

My books:

*Panbiogeography: Tracking the history of life*. Oxford University Press,
New York. 1999. (With R. Craw and J. Grehan).
http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=Bm0_QQ3Z6GUC
<http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=Bm0_QQ3Z6GUC&dq=panbiogeography&source=gbs_navlinks_s>



*Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics. *University of California Press,
Berkeley. 2012. www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520271968



*Biogeography of Australasia:  A molecular analysis*. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge. 2014. www.cambridge.org/9781107041028



*Biogeography and evolution in New Zealand. *Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton
FL. 2016. www.tandf.net/books/details/9781498751872/