APPENDIX 
The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution made public, Febru¬ 
ary 15, 1913, the list of those who contributed to the fund covering the 
expenses of the Smithsonian African expedition under the leadership of 
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. This list is not complete, as it only con¬ 
tains the names of those persons who were willing that the Secretary of 
the Smithsonian Institution should make public their names. 
In a statement issued by the Secretary it is stated that up to Febru¬ 
ary, 1913, Mr. Roosevelt did not know who the contributors were, with 
the exception of Andrew Carnegie, and possibly one or two personal 
friends. 
The list includes the names of Edward D. Adams of New York, 
former Secretary Robert Bacon of Boston, Cornelius N. Bliss of New 
York, James Campbell of Saint Louis, W. Bayard Cutting of New York, 
Andrew Carnegie of New York, Cleveland H. Dodge of New York, E. H. 
Gary of New York, John Hays Hammond of Washington, H. L. Higgin- 
son of Boston, Hennen Jennings of Washington, J. S. Kennedy of New 
York, Ralph King of Cleveland, former Secretary George L. von Meyer 
of Washington, D. O. Mills of New York, former Secretary T. H. New¬ 
berry of Michigan, L. L. Nunn of Provo, Utah, H. C. Perkins of Wash¬ 
ington, Henry Phipps of New York, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid of New York, 
Elihu Root of New York, J. C. Rosengarten of Philadelphia, Jacob H. 
SchifF of New York, Isaac N. Seligman of New York, O. M. Stafford of 
Cleveland, former Secretary Oscar S. Straus of New York, and Isidor 
Straus of New York. 
From the contributions the Smithsonian’s three-fifths share of all 
the expenses were paid; the other two-fifths were paid by Colonel 
Roosevelt, which covered all his personal expenses and those of his son, 
and their proportionate two-fifths share of the total expenses of the 
expedition. 
The following is the complete list of the collections made by the 
expedition that have been received by the institution: 
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