Through the Brazilian Wilderness - Tapa blanda

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Colonel roosevelt's expedition to Africa having been planned while he was still President of the United States, it seemed to him proper that it should be made in the interests of the United States National Museum. But when, in 1913, as a private citizen, he decided to explore the interior of Brazil, he felt free to Offer the scientific results which might accrue from this under taking to the American Museum of Natural History, an institution in which he had a strong personal interest and Of which his father had been a founder.

As curator of the museum department with which Colonel Roosevelt had the closest affiliation it became my privilege to assist in the organization of the expedi tion.

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Excerpt from Through the Brazilian Wilderness

This is an account of a zoogeographic reconnoissance through the Brazilian hinterland.

The official and proper title of the expedition is that given it by the Brazilian Government: Expedicao Scien-tifica Roosevelt-Rondon. When I started from the United States, it was to make an expedition, primarily concerned with mammalogy and ornithology, for the American Museum of Natural History of New York. This was undertaken under the auspices of Messrs. Osborn and Chapman, acting on behalf of the Museum. In the body of this work I describe how the scope of the expedition was enlarged, and how it was given a geographic as well as a zoological character, in consequence of the kind proposal of the Brazilian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, General Lauro Muller. In its altered and enlarged form the expedition was rendered possible only by the generous assistance of the Brazilian Government. Throughout the body of the work will be found reference after reference to my colleagues and companions of the expedition, whose services to science I have endeavored to set forth, and for whom I shall always feel the most cordial friendship and regard.

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