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<div style="text-align:center; font-family:'Gill Sans'; font-size:220%; color:#006699; padding: 0.5em;">Expeditions & Explorers: Two Centuries of Field Notes<br /><br />An Edit-a-Thon</div>

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'''[http://www.mnh.si.edu/rc/fieldbooks/ The Field Book Project]''', a joint effort of the [[National Museum of Natural History]] and the [[Smithsonian Institution Archives]], welcomes participants to an edit-a-thon on the scientific field diaries held at the Smithsonian. Activities include new editor orientation and a behind-the-scenes tour of the Smithsonian’s Russell E. Train Africana Collection. Participants will also be invited to preview and test transcribe field book materials using the Smithsonian’s new digital Transcription Center. Coffee and lunch generously provided courtesy of Wikimedia DC.

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#--[[User:Sarasays|Sarasays]] ([[User talk:Sarasays|talk]]) 18:52, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

# --[[User:thekimbos|thekimbos]] ([[User talk:thekimbos|talk]])

#--Robin Everly [[User:Robineverly|Robineverly]] ([[User talk:Robineverly|talk]]) 15:07, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

# [[User:Dominic|Dominic]]·[[User talk:Dominic|t]] 06:17, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

# --'''''All names beyond 12 should consider themselves on the waitlist; you will be contacted if a space opens up'''''

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*[[United States and Mexican Boundary Survey]] (1848-1855)

*[[Edmund Heller]]

*[[Cleofé CaldéronCalderón]]

*[[John Alden Loring]]

*[[James Eike]]

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;Images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons

* [[Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition]]

# On Expedition: [[Theodore Roosevelt]], [[Edgar Alexander Mearns]], [[John Alden Loring]] - [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Theodore_Roosevelt_on_African_Expedition,_Image_ID_SIA2009-1371.jpg| On Expedition]

# On Expedition: [[Kermit Roosevelt]] - [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Damaliscus_Being_Photographed_by_Kermit_Roosevelt,_Roosevelt_African_Expedition,_1909,_Image_ID_RU7179_box2_folder9_SPI_535_.jpg| Kermit Roosevelt]

# On Expedition: [[Theodore Roosevelt]] - [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Theodore_Roosevelt,_Image_ID_2002-32244,_c._early_1900s,_1909-1910.tif| Theodore Roosevelt]

# East African Lion Exhibit - [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_African_Lion_Exhibit,_National_Museum_of_Natural_History,_Image_ID_NHB-24881.tif| National Museum of Natural History exhibit]

# Specimens form the Roosevelt Safari - [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taxidermist_at_Work_on_Roosevelt_Safari_Specimens.jpg| Taxidermist at work]

*[[John Alden Loring]]

# John Alden Loring - [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Alden_Loring,_NHB-21451,_1909-1910.tif| John Alden Loring]

*[[Doris Mable Cochran]]

# Doris Mable Cochran - [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doris_M._Cochran,_1954,_Image_ID_96-950.tif| Doris Mable Cochran]

# Doris Mable Cochran with snake - [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doris_M._Cochran_with_Snake,_1954,_Image_ID_96-952.tif| Doris Mable Cochran with Snake]

# Doris Mable Cochran working with collections - [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doris_M._Cochran_Working_with_Collections,_Image_ID_96-949.tif| Doris Mable Cochran working with Collections]

# Doris Mable Cochran holding a frog - [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doris_M._Cochran_Holding_Frog,_Image_ID_96-956.tif| Doris Mable Cochran holding frog]

*[[Cleofé Caldéron]]

# Cleofe Calderon and Thomas R. Soderstrom examining bamboo samples - [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cleofe_Calderon_and_Thomas_R._Soderstrom_Examining_Bamboo_Samples%2C_National_Museum_of_Natural_History.tif| Cleofe Calderon and Thomas R. Soderstrom examining bamboo samples]

*[[Mary Agnes Chase]]

# Mary Agnes Chase collecting plants in Brazil - [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Agnes_Chase_Collecting_Plants,_Brazil,_Image_ID_96-548.tif| Mary Agnes Chase collecting plants in Brazil]

# Mary Agnes Chase, Clarissa Rolfs and group on Expedition - [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Agnes_Chase,_Clarissa_Rolfs_and_Group_on_Expedition_in_Brazil,_Image_Id_96-543.tif| Mary Agnes Chase, Clarissa Rolfs and group on Expedition]

=== Specific Edit-a-thon Work ===