Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1908 — To Explore South America. [ARTICLE]

To Explore South America.

A imrty of Boston scientists, under the direction of George Melville Boynton, has organized an eX|>edition to explore the wilds of South America. A .Gloucester fishing vessel has Iteen bought and will lx* christened the Diacovery. There will be about thirty-five men in all and the trip is expected to last five years. Qp< rations will be confined chiefly to the unex-' Dieted regions south of the A mason river, but the expedition will eventually follow the Amazon to its* source and cross the Andes, coming out at Punta Parjjre, Peru. In the party will lie botanists, miaerologists, ethnologists, taxidermists and photographer*.