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FORES T A x\ D S T R E A M 
September, 1913 
AFRICAN EXPLORATION 
EDMUND HELLER. ONE OF THE GOVERNORS OF FOREST AND 
STREAM. HEADS EXPEDITION INTO UNKNOWN PARTS OF AFRICA 
By JOHN P. HOLMAN 
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HARPER & BROTHERS 
NEW Esl. 1817 YORK 
N expedition recently 
sailed from New 
York on the steam- 
ship City of Benares, 
which is probably the 
largest, most complete 
and best equipped ex- 
pedition ever sent 
forward from this 
country to penetrate 
the unexplored reg- 
ions of the world. It 
will land at Capa 
Town, South Africa, and at that point 
will begin an exhaustive journey through 
Africa which will not be completed until 
the members of the expedition emerge a 
year later at Alexandria. 
African exploration, halted during five 
years of war, is to be resumed. In the 
exploring party are scientists, motion 
picture camera-men directors, and a 
newspaper correspondent. 
Officially this expedition is known as 
the Smithsonian African Expedition in 
conjunction with the Universal Film 
Manufacturing Company. It is the 
largest in scientific scope since the fa- 
mous Stanley Expedition that went forth 
in search of Livingstone half a century 
ago — it is larger than that headed by 
the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt after 
he retired from the presidency in 1909. 
The itinerary carries the party into un- 
explored parts of the Dark Continent 
and has been sanctioned by Dr. Charles 
Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution. The object of the expedition 
is to enrich the archives of scientific 
knowledge and bring back the wonders 
of natural history and anthropological 
research, in vivid pictorial form. 
Edmund Heller, of Washington, D. C., 
a famous naturalist and one of the Gov- 
ernors of Forest and Stream, is to be 
the director of the expedition, under the 
authority of the Smithsonian Institution 
Mr. Heller’s past experience in research 
work and foreign travel has been very 
extensive. He is a member of The Ex- 
plorers’ Club, The Boone and Crocket; 
Club, and a member of the Washington 
and Philadelphia Academies of Science. 
He was the official naturalist and pilo; 
of the famous Roosevelt expedition into 
Africa in 1909-10. In 1911-12 he was 
a member of the Rainey expedition into 
East Africa. He was the official photo- 
grapher with Paul Rainey, attached to 
the Czecho-Slovak arm.y in Siberia in 
1918. Mr. Heller is the author of numer- 
ous papers on animalf', describing orig- 
inal investigations in unfrequented parts 
of the world and was joint author with 
Theodore Roosevelt of “Life Histories 
cf African Game Animals.” 
T he complete and tentative itinerary 
of the expedition is rs follows; 
From Cape Town north to Victoria 
Falls, and to the headwaters of the Con- 
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Members of the Smithsonian African Expedition. From left to right standing: Dr. 
H. L. Shontz, Dept, of Agriculture; Henry C. Raven, Smithsonian Institution; E. M. 
Thierry, Newspaper Correspor'^ent; Pbny Horne and H. N. Kohler, camera men. 
Sitting: Dr. J. R. Armstrong, 'William Stowell, Edmund Heller, Smithsonian Insti- 
tution, in charge of expedition and George Scott, chief camera man 
