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The United States Exploring Expedition

The United States Exploring Expedition. Smithsonian Institution Libraries. United States Exploring Expedition : Overview. Leader: Charles Wilkes (1798 – 1877) Duration: 1838 - 1842 Cost: $300,000.00 Purpose: “ to extend the bounds of science and to promote knowledge”.

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The United States Exploring Expedition

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  1. The United States Exploring Expedition Smithsonian Institution Libraries

  2. United States Exploring Expedition : Overview • Leader: Charles Wilkes (1798 – 1877) • Duration: 1838 - 1842 • Cost: $300,000.00 • Purpose: “to extend the bounds of science and to promote knowledge”

  3. United States Exploring Expedition : Overview • Brazil • Tierra del Fuego • Antarctica • Chile • Australia • New Zealand • the west coast of North America • the Philippines • East Indies

  4. United States Exploring Expedition : Overview • Vincennes, a sloop of war of 780 tons • Peacock, a sloop of war of 650 tons • Porpoise, a brig of 230 tons • Relief, a store ship • Sea Gull, a schooner of 110 tons • Flying Fish, a schooner of 96 tons

  5. United States Exploring Expedition : Overview • 82 Officers • 342 sailors • 9 Naturalists, Scientists, and Artists • 62 discharged as “unsuitable” • 42 deserters • 15 died of injuries, disease or accidents

  6. United States Exploring Expedition : And the Smithsonian The Smithsonian acquired and displayed specimens and artifacts from the expedition in 1858. In so doing, it established itself as a showcase for the country's first major international scientific venture and as a guardian of national treasures.

  7. United States Exploring Expedition : The Books

  8. United States Exploring Expedition : The Books • 5 volume Narrative by Charles Wilkes (1844-74)

  9. United States Exploring Expedition : The Books • Hale - Ethnology and Philology (1846) • Dana- Zoophytes (1846, 1849) • Peale - Mammalia and Ornithology (1848) • Cassin - Mammalogy and Ornithology (1858) • Pickering - Races of Man (1848)

  10. United States Exploring Expedition : The Books • Dana - Geology (1849) • Wilkes - Meteorology (1851) • Gould - Mollusca and Shells (1852, 1856) • Dana - Crustacea (1852, 1853, 1855) • Gray - Botany - Phanerogamia (1854, 1856)

  11. United States Exploring Expedition : The Books • Brackenridge - Botany - Cryptogamia - Filices (1854, 1855) • Various (ed. By Gray) - Botany - Cryptogamia (1874) • Torrey - Phanerogamia of Pacific North America (1862)

  12. United States Exploring Expedition : The Books • Pickering - The Geographical Distribution of Animals and Plants (1854) • Girard - Herpetology (1858) • Wilkes - Hydrography (1861, 1850, 1858)

  13. United States Exploring Expedition : The Books • ~ 12,745 pages of text • ~ 1,134 plates • ~ 232 maps • ~ 14,205 total images to be created

  14. United States Exploring Expedition : The Science

  15. United States Exploring Expedition : The Science

  16. United States Exploring Expedition : The Digital Version

  17. United States Exploring Expedition : The Digital Version • Initial grant of $20,750.00 from the Smithsonian’s Atherton Seidel fund for digital imaging (2000) • Collections Information Systems Pool fund award of $30,000.00 for re-keying of the Narrative text (April 2003)

  18. United States Exploring Expedition : The Digital Version • Leslie Overstreet • Daria Wingreen • David Holbert • Conrad Ziyad • Erin Clements • Nicole Van Doren • NH Library Staff

  19. United States Exploring Expedition : The Digital Version • Scan of page images • Text volumes to Preservation Resources • Atlas and Plate volumes done at SIL Imaging Center

  20. United States Exploring Expedition : The Digital Version • Mark up of Narrative in TEI Lite XML Schema

  21. United States Exploring Expedition : The Digital Version • Mark up of scientific volumes in Taxonomic XML Schema

  22. United States Exploring Expedition : The Digital Version • Linking of museum objects and specimens to text

  23. United States Exploring Expedition : SIL Website

  24. United States Exploring Expedition : SIL Website • “USExEX” Project page now available • Official site to launch in November 2003 • Will feature contribution by Nathaniel Philbrick, author of the forthcoming Seas of Glory • Additional contributions on selected areas as website develops

  25. United States Exploring Expedition : Magnificent Voyages

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