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

[Dilrukshan Wijesinghe]

The British amateur ornithologist Annie C. Jackson, who was married to Richard Meinertzhagen, died under in suspicious circumstances, possibly shot by her husband. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Meinertzhagen
Also: The Meinertzhagen Mystery: The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud - Brian Garfield, 2007. Potomac Books, Inc. See esp. p. 170.

Priyantha
D. P. Wijesinghe
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      From: Neal Evenhuis <neale at bishopmuseum.org>
 To: John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com>; "Boggan, John" <BOGGANJ at si.edu> 
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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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