Through the Brazilian Wilderness - Softcover

Excerpt from Through the Brazilian Wilderness

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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