The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-12-29
OFF TO EXPLORE
UNKNOWN JUNGLES
Prof. Cherrie of Newfane Naturalist II
Party to Collect Birds and Nam
mails in South America.

An expedition financed and managed
by Lee Garnett Day Of New York and
Alfred NJ Collins of Philadelphia is on
its way to explore unknown parts Of
the South American jungles under the
auspices of the American museum of
natural history and the Field museum
of Chicago. The party includes, in ad
dition to Mr.. Day and Mr.. Collins,
Prof George X Cherrie of Newfane,
naturalist of the museum of natural
history; Robert Fl. Becker of the Field
museum, and w. F. Walker of Yale
university. They sailed from New
York on the United Fruit line steamer
Matapan for Panama, and from there
they will 90 first TO La Paz, Bolivia.
| From La Paz the expedition viii
cross the Andes by pack train and de-
scend into a part of Bolivia which is
entirely new to the collector. Mr., Day
said before leaving that the party
PLANNED to descend either the Benz or
the Marore rivers, and to reach the
Amazon eventually by the Madeira
river.
Lee Garnett Day, who graduated
from Yale university in 1911, is a mem
her OF the firm Of Bennett, Day & Go.
of New York. He has hunted big game
in India. aud recently returned from 4
"trip Of five months exploration in
Brazil.
Alfred Collins, a graduate of Hayer-
ford college, Is well known as a polo
enthusiast, and hunted big game in
Africa two years ago. \ year ago he
headed hunting expedition to Alaska.
He and Mr.. Day have shot game
throughout this country and Canada.
George K Cherrie was with Col
Roosevelt s South American expcdi
, ton, which brought back 2,100 speei
mems of birds and of 500 animals
Robert H. Becker has had experience
, in the Amazon valley and Southern
: Brazil in collecting for the Field muse
: nm. AR. Cherrie will endeavor to oh
tain a representative collection OF
birds during the trip. and Mr.. Becker
will collect mammals, At least ST.
months probably will he required 70
: the trip. but should the work requir,
: more time. it viii be granted.
every little is known of the countr!
: or of the animal life in the sections
t through which we propose to 90, sal,
Mr.. Day. = Not a specimen of the mann
I mal or of bird life has ever been OBJ
tanned there. Should we be success
5 f'ul in getting specimens some of then
4 ut least should prove to he Of vain
t to the collections of the museums be
t cause of their rarety
E While Mr. Collins and / have bee
t more particularly Interested in game
y the expedition IS designed to study nj
/ the conditions which may come unde
our observation, and this viii he espe
a ciallv true of the naturalists and scien
{ fists who viii accompany rs, Messers
: Cherrie and Becker. 1t was about %
miles north Of some points Of our eN
5 pected explorations that Wilfred o.
5 goode of the Field museum fonnd tn
q rare specimen of the specialized bear
We may not find anything so interest
y ing as that but we think there mus
be many other unusual things in bir
I and animal life in these uneSplored re
a eions that will well repay our trouble.
The specimens of birds gathered b
e the expedition will 90 to the Ne'
6 York museum Of natural history, an
: the mammals are to be put in the Fiel
museum Should duplicate sets he oil
/ tanned, they will be divided betwee
the two museums.