Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-07-05
A Scientific Expedition Around the
World.

We have received the ''Final An
nouncement Of the Woodruff Expedi-
| tion," and its pages certainly offer most
! attractive programme to the educational,
scientific and pleasure loving worlds. The
expedition will be itself an education. 1t
offers to young men q broad culture, that
no university training can give; for the
world itself, with its wonderfully varied
| flora and fauna, its architecture, its divers
tribes and races, It's ancient and modern
civilizations, its records of past ages and
peoples, will be the book from which he
will read while the microscope of science
and the telescope of history will be adj
justed by skillful hands to help him in
understanding each page as it is turned.
To the student, the scientist, and the sight
seer, it offers uneXampled advantages.
The first requisite for the success and en-
joyment of such an expedition is a stanch,
spacious, well-officered ship. This has
has been obtained, and it will be com
manded by some of the best and most
skillful officers of our navy. Mr.. Wood
ruff has been especially fortunate in secur-
ing the cooperation of eminent Professors
from the leading colleges, each special
list, and widely known in his own depart
ment. The students will be under their
way, to the widest knowledge, by lectures
and explanations, and will be enabled to
make large and valuable Collections in all
departments, from the wide range of
countries to be visited.
The expedition will spend two years in
its explorations, and will be in port three
quarters of the time, thus offering every
advantage for inland excursions in the
most interesting countries.
The announcements shows that the
expedition is gotten up in the interest of
science and education alone. 1t is in no
way mOney-making scheme. The
charge TO students will scarcely cover the
expenses, and the protector of the enter
prise is generously willing to bear the risk
and loss that may result from it.
AS we have said, to the scientific man,
to the architect, and to the traveller, as
well as to the student, this voyage offers
rare opportunities. The sight-Seer will be
gratifed by the varied and ever changing
panorama. The architect may study the
specimens of the finest ancient and mod
ern architecture the world over, while the
man of science can pursue his InvestIga-
tons and collect his specimens over the
widest field.
The voyage has been so arranged that
the expedition will arrive at the different
ports at the most favorable season of the
year, and the sanitary arrangements are
all that can be desired; the BODY as well
as the mind will be cared for, and the aim
is strength and vigor for both.
The mail arrangements are also excel
lent Scarcely more than a month
will elapse at any time without an oppor-
tunity to receive and send letters, thus
making as small as possible the natural
anxiety about distant friends
If high school, college or town Will
send a student, every assistance will be
rendered him in collecting and preserving
specimens, which will make collection
whose money value can scarcely be estl-
mated, and thus they will obtain the
cleus of museum that will become
source of help to students, and OF delight
and amusement to the community.
Another admirable feature of the expe
dition is a class of cadets. to be taken out
under the care of the commander, John
W. Philip, Z. s. n, and to be placed On
the same footing as the midshipmen IN
the United States service, receiving the
same discipline and instruction, and