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The expedition took 33 days to complete the nearly 1000 mile journey. Whereas the Roosevelt–Rondon Expedition had to portage almost all of the many rapids on the river with their heavy dugout canoes, the Haskel–McKnight Expedition was able to safely navigate all of the rapids except for three which were portaged.
The group was led by the hunter-tracker R. J. Cunninghame. [3] [4] Participants on the expedition included Australian sharpshooter Leslie Tarlton; three American naturalists, Edgar Alexander Mearns, a retired U.S. Army surgeon; Stanford University taxidermist Edmund Heller, and mammalologist John Alden Loring; and Roosevelt's 19-year-old son Kermit, on a leave of absence from Harvard. [5]
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In 1915, he went to Bolivia with the Alfred Collins-Garnet Day expedition. In 1925, he was the zoological collector for the Simpson-Roosevelts Asiatic Expedition where he accompanied Theodore Roosevelt's sons Kermit and Theodore Jr. and Charles Suydam Cutting. [4] [5]
In 1924, the Roosevelts decided they wanted to organize an expedition through Asia for the purposes of scientific achievement. They gained the interest of Field Museum President Stanley Field and Director Davies who were able to secure funding from science enthusiast James Simpson for their trip focusing on exploring the Pamirs, Turkestan and the Tian Shan Mountains. ...
This category includes expeditions whose primary or secondary purpose is scientific research and discovery, such as the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú or Charles Darwin's voyages on the Beagle. The category does not include commercial expeditions, such as some of the early whaling expeditions to Antarctica.