USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Its purpose was to collect specimens for the Smithsonian’s new Natural History museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History. The expedition collected around 11, 400 animal specimens, which took Smithsonian naturalists eight years to catalog.

Detailed explanation-2: -One of the biggest headline-grabbing stories of 1910 was former president Theodore Roosevelt’s safari into Africa. Landing in Mombasa in 1909, Roosevelt spent months in the wilds of East Africa, hunting big game in parts of what are now Kenya and Uganda.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1909, ex-President Teddy Roosevelt went on his own safari to eastern Africa-and the list of casualties is positively massive, with more than 500 kills shot by him and his son.

Detailed explanation-4: -This photograph depicts the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, standing over the corpse of an elephant that he had hunted whilst on an African expedition, sometime between 1909 and 1910.

Detailed explanation-5: -TR’s safari was part adventure, part scientific expedition, and partly for hunting big game. He arrived in Africa in March, 1909, and stayed about a year.