Smithsonian African Expedition (1909-1910) Search this
Place:
Africa
Date:
May, 1909
Category:
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Notes:
Oehser, Paul H. The Smithsonian Institution. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970, p. 220.
Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1909. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1910, p. 7-10.
Roosevelt, Theodore. African Game Trails : An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist. New York: Charles Scribner's' Sons, 1909.
Summary:
The Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition begins, led by former President Theodore Roosevelt and accompanied by his son Kermit, and three naturalists, Edgar Alexander Mearns, Edmund Heller, and J. Alden Loring. The specimens collected for the United States National Museum and National Zoological Park enrich the biological collections by some 11,400 items, including 1,000 skins of large mammals and 4,000 skins of small mammals. Some 5000 plant specimens were also collected. Some of the specimens were used for displays in the newly constructed United States National Museum.