His boss, Frank Dyson, the Astronomer Royal of Britain, saved Eddington from jail by promising that he would undertake an important scientific task, namely the expedition to test the Einstein theory.
Tasked as the expedition's naturalist, Anderson collected many bird specimens but had died of tuberculosis in 1778 before the return home.
The Byzantine navy accompanied the expedition, tasked with carrying troops to effect a landing in the enemy's rear and to cut off their retreat across the Danube.
This was a much more arduous task than writing the expedition narrative.
He was posted to Sariska game reserve, his immediate task to arrange a hunting expedition for the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in 1961.
While enormous credit for realizing the old mountain-climbing dream of standing on the peak of the highest mountain the world must go to Brigadier Sir John Hunt, who had the harrying task of supervising the British expedition, the heroes of the pictorial team are Tom Stobart, the photographer, and George W. Lowe, the schoolmaster and climber who assisted him.
The expedition was also tasked with capturing a live specimen of the Okapi for which a wealthy resident of Paris had offered a $5,000 reward.
Their coach, Lloyd Carr, inspired by a book he had read, compared the task his players faced to an expedition that climbed Mount Everest.
Now came the chaotic task of getting dressed for the expedition, which included the realization that the kids' shoes had been left under the seats of the rental car back in North Carolina.
On the desks and the floor are boxes brimming with fragments of plastic hauled from the sea on earlier expeditions, a reminder of the task ahead.
My only task was to see that news of the expedition went home fast, safely and exclusively to The Times of London.
