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The United States Exploring Expedition
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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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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United States Exploring Expedition : Overview
• Brazil• Tierra del Fuego• Antarctica• Chile• Australia• New Zealand• the west coast of North
America• the Philippines• East Indies
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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
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United States Exploring Expedition : Overview
• 62 discharged as “unsuitable”
• 42 deserters• 15 died of injuries,
disease or accidents
• 82 Officers
• 342 sailors
• 9 Naturalists, Scientists, and Artists
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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.
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United States Exploring Expedition : The Books
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United States Exploring Expedition : The Books
• 5 volume Narrative by Charles Wilkes (1844-74)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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United States Exploring Expedition : The Books
• Pickering - The Geographical Distribution of Animals and Plants (1854)
• Girard - Herpetology (1858)
• Wilkes - Hydrography (1861, 1850, 1858)
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United States Exploring Expedition : The Books
• ~ 12,745 pages of text
• ~ 1,134 plates
• ~ 232 maps
• ~ 14,205 total images to be created
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United States Exploring Expedition : The Science
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United States Exploring Expedition : The Science
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United States Exploring Expedition : The Digital Version
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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)
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United States Exploring Expedition : The Digital Version
• Leslie Overstreet
• Daria Wingreen
• David Holbert
• Conrad Ziyad
• Erin Clements
• Nicole Van Doren
• NH Library Staff
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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
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United States Exploring Expedition : The Digital Version
• Mark up of Narrative in TEI Lite XML Schema
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United States Exploring Expedition : The Digital Version
• Mark up of scientific volumes in Taxonomic XML Schema
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United States Exploring Expedition : The Digital Version
• Linking of museum objects and specimens to text
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United States Exploring Expedition : SIL Website
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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
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United States Exploring Expedition : Magnificent Voyages