Members of the Roosevelt expedition to South America
Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
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Members of the Roosevelt expedition to South America. At the left of Theodore Roosevelt, Father Zahm, George K. Cherrie, representative of the American Museum and Anthony Fiala, chief of commissary; at the right, Kermit Roosevelt, Frank Harper and Leo E. Miller, representative of the American Museum Museum in the fall the first presentation of the zoological results of his recent expedi- tion to South America. Two expeditions from the department of vertebrate palaeontology will be sent out this summer in search of fossils. The first expedi- tion in charge of Mr. Barnum Brown, assisted by Mr. P. C. Kaisen. will confine its operations to the Red Deer River of Alberta, Canada, where it will endeavor to collect Cretaceous dinosaurs, and the second in charge of Mr. Albert Thomson will go to the big quarry at Agate, Nebraska, to secure additional Moro- pus skeletons. Mr. John A. Grossbeck, a patron of the Museum and a member of the department of invertebrate zoology, died in Barbados on April 8. Although Mr. Grossbeck was taken ill more than a year ago, his health seemed to be partially recovered, and in order to regain his strength he was touring the Caribbean region with his brother when he died suddenly during a change of boats. Mr. Grossbeck came to the Museum about four years ago, having previously been con- nected with the New Jersey State Experiment Station. While in that institution he made valuable discoveries concerning a wide range 214 of injurious insects but especially concerning the life history of mosquitoes. His chief scientific interest however was in the Geome- tridse —• the family of moths whose young are the "measuring worms." On coming to the Museum Mr. Grossbeck gave to it his valua- ble collection of this group as well as his gen- eral collection of local insects. In recognition of his generosity he was made a patron. Mr. Grossbeck devoted himself to the work on in- sects with untiring zeal and by reason of his broad entomological training was able to further the work in all of its branches. He had already made an international reputation in entomology and it will be exceedingly diffi- cult for the Museum to find a successor who will combine Mr. Grossbeck's wiUingness to serve with an equal entomological knowl- edge. The Museum wishes to express its sincere sympathy to the bereaved families of two of its workers, William A. Dolan and Christian Hundertpfund of the mechanical staff, who had served the institution faithfully for thirteen and twelve years respectively. The publicity committee of the Museum, created during the winter, has been endeavor- ing to acquaint the people in New York City
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