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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo10amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ACCOrXT OF THE MTSECM'S COXGO EXPKDITIOX 153 associates. The organization of this committee gave definite form and impetus to the negotiations which finally brought about the sanction of the authorities in Belgium to the Museum's exploration of the Congo, and which so controlled circumstance at home that the project dreamed of became a reality. The history of the following months, in fact, till May S, 1909, when Messrs. Lang and Chapin sailed on the "Zeeland" of the Red Star Line for Antwerp, is a fascinating chapter of work preparatory to the launching of a great expedition. The matter of financing the expedition was taken in hand by a group of the Museum's members and friends, to whom the institution is deeply indebted and to whom the world in the future will be indebted because of the large scientific value of the expedition. They are Messrs. John B. Trevor, Charles Lanier, Cleveland H. Dodge, J. P. ^lorgan, Jr., William K. Vanderbilt, A. D. Juilliard, Robert W. Goelet and Wil- liam Rockefeller. Plans were outlined for the scientific end of the work: to push at once into the central part of Africa so that headquarters might be located eight hundred or more miles from the coast in a region formerly unexplored zoo- logically; to make the aim of the ex- pedition a zoological sur\'ey of the basin of the Congo, collecting heavy game but also directing energies along other lines of investigation, so as to make collections for all departments of the ^Museum. While awaiting the final arrangements with the Belgian go^'- ernment, cooperation and enthusiasm among those concerned pushed the un- dertaking to a wonderful success in its preliminary stages, assuring an aim and scope to rank the expedition as perhaps the greatest the Museum ever sent out. ,obal, woman carrv,ng firewood
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