Tins UKITHSOKIAN-BLANK EXPEDITION TO EADT AFRICA. 
The object of the expedition is to collect live animals 
for the National Zoological Park, a bureau of the Smithsonian 
Institution, and zoological specimens, both live and preserved, 
for the institutions cooperating. These are: United States 
National Museum; Museum of Comparative Zoology, of Harvard 
University; Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, and 
the London Zoological Society. 
The direction of the expedition is under the Smithsonian 
Institution, and the expedition itself in charge of W. M, Mann, 
Superintendent of the National Zoological Park, of the Smith¬ 
sonian Institution. 
The personnel to be taken from the United States to be 
limited and to consist of: Arthur Xoveridge, formerly assistant 
game warden in Tanganyika for eight years; an all-around "animal 
man" from the National Zoological Park; Dr. Mann, and on® as¬ 
sist ant. Perhaps the expedition night be accompanied by one or 
more additional trained zoologists. 
The Pathe Company to send one, or perhaps two, experienced 
field camera men, their object being to make a pictorial history 
of the expedition, its activities in the field, hunting and col¬ 
lecting animals, with camej& studi es of natural history, which 
pictures would be released by the Pathe Company in their weekly 
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news service, and the end of the expedition as a feature picture 
From the standpoint of the Zoological Park, the expedition 
