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ology is second to none, while he is one of the most successful surgeons 

 and physicians in the service list. He is inured to the hardships of 

 field life. He is a good shot and a good companion. Of him a Wash- 

 ington scientist who has been in the field with him time and again 

 has said of him : "He is the kindest man I ever knew. If it is cold he 

 v-zants you to take his coat in addition to your own; if it is hot he wants 

 to help take oflf your coat before he will take off his own. He knows 

 nothing of contention and no man can be found to make a better camp 

 companion." 



Edmund Heller is a graduate of Stanford University of the Class 

 of 1901. He is a thoroughly trained naturalist, w4iose special work 

 was the preparation and preservation of specimens of the large ani- 

 mals that the expedition secured. Mr. Heller \Vent with Carl E. 

 Akeley into Africa on a collecting trip for the Field Columbian ^lu- 

 seum. The expedition was successful in every way. Mr. Heller has 

 conducted successful scientific excursions into Alaska and through the 

 Death Valley. In the latter place he followed the trail w^hich Dr. C. 

 Hart Merriman, of the Biological Survey of Washington, had taken 

 some years before and in a large measure he duplicated the Merriam 

 collecting achievement. Mr. Heller has explored and collected in 

 Mexico and in Central America, and it is said of him that he "always 

 has made good." He has the faculty of making friends and never in 

 the course of any of his expeditions has there been the slightest trouble 

 with the natives. 



J. Alden Loring, of Oswego, N. Y., is known as a successful col- 

 lector of birds and small mammals. In addition to this Mr. Loring 

 is a field naturalist Who understands the preservation of skins in all 

 climates. He w^as attached for some time to the United States Bio- 

 logical Survey, and later he was connected with the Bronx Zoological 

 Park, New York City. Mr. Loring has made field trips in various 

 parts of the United States, British America and Mexico. The United 

 States National Museum once sent him abroad as a traveling collector 

 of small mammals. In three months of field work in Sweden, Bel- 

 gium, Germany and Switzerland he collected and shipped 900 speci- 

 mens all carefully prepared. This stands as a record-breaking field 

 achievement. Men who have been in the field with Mr. Loring say 



