One of us remembers fondly the picture of Howel and paleontologist R. A. Stirton kneeling in the desert sand of Baja California, amiably assisting the beleaguered botanist of the biogeographers' expedition in preparation of plant specimens.
THE Lewis and Clark expedition that began preparations in 1803 had everything: grand adventure, heroism, friendship and scholarship.
Sometimes, despite all cost, effort, and preparation, the expedition's crucial moment was spoiled by clouds or illness.
Both in inspiration and preparation, the expedition drew on the example of Cook and to a lesser extent, the French mariner Louis Antoine de Bougainville.
Some professors had sublet apartments in preparation for expeditions that are now suspended, and graduate students expecting those trips to yield crucial data are now having to rethink years of planning for their dissertations.
Experts in government, industry and science agree, however, that these three broad trends will shape the coming decades in space: NASA has embarked on a program to return to the Moon by 2020, not just for what some critics call "flags and footprints," but also for a lasting presence with scientific research and preparation for expeditions to asteroids and, eventually, Mars.
Such was the perceived danger of the expedition that while making preparations for the flight back they received a telegram from the Defence Department ordering them to dismantle the B.E.2 and return with it by ship.
Such was the perceived danger of the expedition that while making preparations for the return flight they received a telegram from the Defence Department ordering them to desist, arrange for the B.E.2 to be dismantled and shipped back, and themselves to travel southwards by steamer.
Befitting Higginson's diligent preparation, the Jacksonville expedition resulted in less immediate bloodshed and greater short-term success than the Harpers Ferry raid.
Concerned not to eat the village out of food, the scientists employed local people to plant sweet potatoes and a spinach-like crop in preparation for their expedition in January, reducing the amount of corned beef and rice flown in via helicopters, the only means of transport to the village.
