The Washington herald., 1913-02-16
CONTRIbUTORS1O TO
!. ROOSEVELT HUNT
Smithsonian Officials Make
Public Names Of Those Who
Helped Finance Trip.
COLONEL PAID SHARE
ColIeetion win Be Placed On Exhibi.
tion in Institution at
Near Date.

Considerable interest is being taken by
the public in relation to the disposition
Of the collection made by the Smith
sonian African expedition under the
leadership OF Col. Theodore Roosevelt.
also as to the people who contributed
the money :or paying the proportionate
share of the expenses Of the three men
sent out by the Smithsonian with Col.
Roosevelt.
The collections when received were
distributed to the various departments
Of the National Museum to which they
pertained. The birds were sent to the
bird department. the large animals to
the mammal department, the plants to
the botanical department. and SO on
A number of groups of the large man.
mails have been prepared, and a number
of individual specimens mounted for ex-
hibition purposes. The greater portion
of the specimens have been placed in
the study series, and the duplicates will
be distributed by exchange or other
wise.
The groups of large mammals now
mounted will shortly be placed on exhi-
bition In the new museum mammal hall,
where the larger animals will be exhib-
tied Those that were on exhibition
have been temporarily withdrawn in or
der to place them in their proper place
in the classification in the hail. which
is closed temporarily pending the ar
rangement of the cases containing the
specimens.
1t now seems an opportune time to
make final statement relating to the
expedition, and with this in view the
secretary recently communicated with
the parties who contributed TO the fund.
and has thus far received replies from
the following that they have no objection
to their names being given to the public
In this connection the secretary wishes
to state that up to this week Col. Roose-
Welt has not known who the contributors
were, with the exception or Mr.. Carnegie
and possibly one or two personal friends.
Some Of the Contributors.
II has not been the custom of the in
10 publish the names Of con-
tributors to research work or expeditions
under its direction until such enterprise
had been completed, and only then when
the contributor had no objection to such
The contributors include Edward ID.
Adams, of New York City: Hon. Robert
Bacon, Boston; Cornelius n. Bliss. New
Y ork: James Campbell. ST. Louis, Mo:
W. Bayard Cutting, New York City: An
drew Carnegie, New York City; Cleve-
land H. Dodge. New York City; f. ii.
Gary, New York City; John Hays Ham
mond Washington, ID. c.: Col. II. l.. Hig-
ginson, Boston. Mass: Hennen Jennings,
u. g.: J. $. Kennedy. New
York: Ralph King. Cleveland. Ohio: Hon.
George Won l.. Meyer, Washington. ID.
C.; ID. o. Mills, New York; Hon. T. IL.
Newberry, Michigan: l.. l.. Num-. Provo.
Utah: II. C. Perkins. Washington. ID. C.;
George w. Perkins. New York City;
Henry Phpps. New York CITY; Mrs.
W Whitelaw Reid. New York City; Hon.
Elihu Root. Washington, ID. C: J. e.
Philadelphia. Pa: Jacob II.
Schiff. New York City; Isaac n. Selig-
man, New York City: o. NJ Stafford,
Ohio; Hon. Oscar S. Straus,
New York City, and Isidor Straus. New
York.
ans three-fifths share OF all the OK
we're paid by Col. Roosevelt, which COW
cred all his personal expenses and those
" his son. and their proportionate two
ifths share of the tai expenses of the
expedition.
The following is the complete list of
he collections made by the expedition
hat have been received by the institu-
ion: Mammals, sob: birds. 4.i53: birds
.ggs and nests, 1Sl: reptiles and batrach-
ans, 2,322: fish. ~: plants. 5.l35; insects.
800; shells. LOO: miscellaneous investe-
,rates, $50; total, 23.169 specimens.
AS the result of this expedition. the
biological collections now In the National
Museum from East Africa are probably
he most complete and systematic of any
N the world