A botanical expedition to Nicaragua

Plant Introduction, Distribution, and Survival: A Case Study of the 1980 Sino-American Botanical Expedition

U the joint auspices of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Botanical Society of America, the 1980 Sino-American Botanical Expedition (SABE) investigated the Shennongjia Forest District and the Metasequoia region of Lichuan Xian, in western Hubei Province, China. The expedition was remarkable for a number of reasons: (a) It was the first joint botanical collecting trip involving botanists f...

A practical guide to expedition medical planning.

Expedition medical planning is integral in ensuring participant safety and maximising the likelihood of achieving the expedition aims. The task of producing a medical plan will often fall to a medical officer of limited experience. The aim of this article is to provide a concise, practical guide to aid junior medical officers (MOs) in forming a robust and pragmatic medical plan.

Rescuing biogeographic legacy data: The "Thor" Expedition, a historical oceanographic expedition to the Mediterranean Sea

BACKGROUND This article describes the digitization of a series of historical datasets based οn the reports of the 1908-1910 Danish Oceanographical Expeditions to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas. All station and sampling metadata as well as biodiversity data regarding calcareous rhodophytes, pelagic polychaetes, and fish (families Engraulidae and Clupeidae) obtained during these expeditions ...

Liverpool University Expedition to Jamaica

Notes on the Indian Expedition to Egypt

announced that their work was first completed, and at 1 P.M,, we left Bombay. Our ship was a vessel of only 1,000 tons register, and had always been used for carrying cargo,?very often coals; in fact she was nothing more or less than what is known among sea-faring men as a " ditcher," i. e., a steamer employed in the coal trade . between England and India via the Suez Canal, hence the name. The...