Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-28

written widely On bird subjects. lie is member of the Linnaean Society of Natural History of Ney iork, or the National Geographical Society oi the Biological Society of Washington, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and patron of the American Museum of Natural History of New York. He is o3 years i of age.
 Personnel of Party. ] AS field naturalist, Mir J. Loring l Alden is probably the most efficient and experienced man ill the party, His training comprises service in the biological survey of the United States department of agriculture and in the New York Geological gardens i'll Bronx park. New York city, as well as on numerous collecting trips through British America, Mexico and the United State. He is about 39 years old of ardent temperament. and intensely energetic. His home is at Oswego, ". Y.
 Of the party the only one who has had previous experience i'll that sec tion of Africa through which the cx- pedition will journey is MT. Edmund Heller He was associated with Pro lessor Carl E. Akeley and Mir, K. D. C.. Eliot in the expedition of the Field Columbian museum of Chicago. which, ! in 1900, visited the same portions of Africa that the Roosevelt expedition will cover
 Mir. Heller is a graduate of Stanford university of California anu Is a thor oughly trained naturalist, whose spe- 'cial work with this expedition will be the preparation and preservation of the specimens of large animals. Having gone over the ground once he is valuable asset to the expedition. Mir. Heller's home It at Los Gatos, Cal.
 Kermit As Photographer.
 Kermit Roosevelt. the presidents s second son, a young man of 19 years, Is to be the official photographer Of the expedition. His collection of pho- tographs of animals and scenes will be made use of in scientific way and as illustrations for books and ar ticles which his father will write.
 Young MT. Roosevelt is a student at Harvard university and great fay- crite of his father. It Is his first trip abroad and he looks forward to it with the keenest interest. He is tall and slender, good horseman and a splendid rife shot.
 To complete the personnel of the expedition, Mir. R. J. Cunninghame. an l Englishman. was chosen. He Is a noted field naturalist and big game hunter and had guided numerous i hunting parties In Africa. No better manager for the trip could have been selected, because Mir Cunninghame is thoroughly familiar with every nook and corner of Central Africa aud it's natives.
 He spent some time in London pur- chasing the outfit for the expedition and shipping 1t to Mombasa. After that had been completed he proceeded to British Africa and has been en- goged in selecting the natives and anil mals necessary for the expedition. He wilt meet the party at Mombasa. To Skin I'm On The Spot. Upon reaching Kilindini. April 21 the party will spend short time in Mombasa and then proceed by train on the Uganda railway to Nairobi, the capital of Ukamba province and head quarters of the administration of Bri- tish East Africa protectorate. a city of 1854 inhabitants, of whom 579 are Europeans Nairobi will be used as the headquarters and base of sup plies. It is in this section that MT Roosevelt hopes to do most of his hunting and collecting. Supplies and camping outfit will be carried by ma tives, and camps established at var , ious points on the trips.
 It has been decided that snowcap ped Mount kenia. 1S,000 feet high, al extinct volcano near Ndoro, to tn, l north of Nairobi. will be the objectsv' point of one of these trips. On Noun l Kenia. at a point part way up. on , of the field naturalists probably will , be stationed for some time. l The supplies of the party are pack , ed in tin-lined boxes. These boXe when they have been emptied will D f used as packing cases for the var 'ou