Date of Award

4-1939

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Biological Sciences

First Advisor

Eugene S. McDonough

Second Advisor

William J. Keegan

Abstract

The extensive taxonomic literature on the North American Vites was reviewed by L.H. Bailey (3) in 1934. Among the earlier writers, Major John Le Conte published "An Enumeration of the Vines of North America" (32) in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 1852-1853. Dr. George Engelmann of St. Louis published a short review of the North American grapes in the American Naturalist for August,1868. He mentioned ten species, giving formal descriptions for none, and commented upon the work of Rafinesque, who had attempted to describe the North American species of Vitis about fifty years previously, saying (p. 320): "Rafinesque, about fifty years ago, undertook to describe and classify these forms, but with his loose observation and lax scientific conscience, he, as usual, instead of becoming a guide, created inextricable confusion. Le Conte, long after, did little to unravel the entanglement; and since their efforts to distinguish imaginary species, the tendency has rather been to combine what were formerly considered, even by conscientious authors, as distinct species." (8)

Comments

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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