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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 
wants you to take his coat in addition to your own; if it is hot he wants 
to help take off 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, whose special work 
was the preparation and preservation of specimens of the large ani¬ 
mals that the expedition secured. Mr. Heller Went with Carl E. 
Akeley into Africa on a collecting trip for the Field Columbian Mu¬ 
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 which 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 was 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 
