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