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Lincoln's DNA and the Relic - Serious Saturday reply



Okay, since it's officially Saturday, I'd like to make
a serious reply on the relic and dna thread.

The following is a from the Milwaukee County Federated
Library System's Countycat for a fascinating book that
includes a chapter on Abraham Lincoln's DNA.  Reilly
writes a chapter in regard to the question whether or
not he suffered from Marfan's syndrome.

Reilly, Philip, 1947-
  Abraham Lincoln's DNA and other adventures in
genetics / Philip R. Reilly. Cold Spring Harbor, NY :
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2000.
  xx, 339 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-330) and
index.
 Human genetics -- Popular works.
 Medical genetics -- Popular works.
 Genetic engineering -- Popular works.
 ISBN 0879695803 (cloth : alk. paper

I just read this book last month and I recommend it
for its many fascinating insights into the attempt to
unravel the human genome.  The author has serious
credentials, and his style of writing is to be
emulated by all specialists trying to explain
complicated subjects to interested, lay audiences.

Don't let the popular works subject subdivision
mislead.  It's written in a popular style, but it is
definitely written for an educated, interested
audience.

Back to the flag from Ford's Theater that kicked this
all off.  Among the authorities quoted in the NY Times
article is H. Michael Madaus, formerly curator of the
Nunnemacher Arms Collection at the Milwaukee Public
Museum and an authority on Civil War era flags.  The
article also has a further Milwaukee connection, the
display of the flag at the Soldier's Home here, as
part of the effort to raise awareness of the need to
provide medical care for war veterans after the Civil
War and funds for that effort.

Judy Turner
Milwaukee Public Museum

--- Carol A Edwards <cedwards@USGS.GOV> wrote:
> Well Kim -
>
> WOW!!!  All I can say is take good care of Lincoln's
> office floorboard wood in those picture frames!!!
> If Lincoln spit and missed the spitoon, and some bug
> in the wood cleaned up the place, you may have a
> heretofore
> unknown Lincoln DNA sample in the bug's remains
> which may
> be hidden somewhere in the wood in those
> frames!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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