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College explorers shipwrecks and scientific haul across continents
A survey of summer expeditions by American universities shows Columbia led in field work with a major zoological party. others under Osborn and Jordan gathered dinosaur bones in Colorado Wyoming and brand young seals in British Columbia. Several trips yielded rare marine life artifacts while some crews faced malaria yellow fever and shipwrecks.
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Arctic Circle
Equator
Pacific
Columbia
Zoological Expedition
E. B. Wilson
New York
Puget Sound
Alaska
Port Townsend
Sitka
Klondike
City of Mexico
Seattle
University of Washington
Wilson
Northwest
Prof
Osborn
Colorado
Wyoming
Woods Hall
Massachusetts
Jordan
Leland Stanford
United States
British Columbia
Franz Boas
American Museum of Natural History
Livingston Farrand
Boas
California
Smithsonian Institution
Mexico
Adolph Bandelier
Peru
Bolivia
Uler
University of Pennsylvania
Princeton
New Mexico
Mesa
Cornell
Coryell
Atlantic
Johns Hopkins University
Jamaica
Humphreys
West Indies
New York University
Agassiz
Harvard
South America
Amazon
Henry F. Osborn