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Roosevelt to Lead Africa Expedition in 1909
President Theodore Roosevelt 59 plans a two year trip abroad after leaving office with half in Africa as a faunal naturalist under the British flag and half in Europe visiting major capitals. He will head a Smithsonian outfitted scientific party with son Kermit and four other naturalists to collect specimens for the United States National Museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Africa
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Europe
Smithsonian Institution of Washington
Kermit
Edgar A. Mearns
J. Loring Alden
Edmund Heller
Central Africa
United States National Museum
New York City
Gibraltar
Naples
Kilindini Harbor
Mombasa Island
Uganda
Nairobi
Port Florence
Lake Victoria
Nyanza
Nile
Khartoum
British East Africa
Egypt
Great Britain
Oxford University
Sorbonne
Paris
University of Berlin
William W. Taft
Taft
Oyster Bay
Long Island
N. Y
Walcott
Smithsonian Institution
German East Africa
Smithsonian
Andrew Carnegie
Medical Corps
United States Army
Major Mearns
American Ornithologists’ Union
Linnaean Society of Natural History of New York
National Geographical Society
Biological Society of Washington
American Association For the Advancement of Science
American Museum of Natural History of
New York
Bronx Park
British America
Mexico
Carl E. Akeley
K. D. G. Eliot
Field Columbian Museum of Chicago
Heller
Stanford University of California
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
University of California
Alaska
British Columbia
Central America
South America
Calapagos Islands
San Francisco
Los Gatos
California
Kermit Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Harvard University
Zoological Gardens
R. J. Cuninghame
Cunninghame
British Museum
Norway
London
Mombasa
British Africa
Killindini
Ukamba
British East Africa Protectorate
Mount Kilimanjaro
National Museum
Abbott
Philadelphia
Mt. Elgon
Entebbe
Naturalists
Mr Roosevelt
Marquise de Lafayette