MAJOR EXPEDITIONS
AMERICAN Museum of NATURAL HISTORY YUKON TERRITORY
(1921)
Funded by the American Museum of Natural History, William J. Morden and colleagues trekked the Yukon Territory to collect samples of native animals and plants for the museum.
Morden-CLARK ASIATIC EXPEDITION
(Jan. 1926 - Feb. 1927)
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Funded and planned by William Morden with assistance from James L. Clark, the Morden-Clark Asiatic Expedition was a mission to gather Central Asian specimens for the Asian Hall of Mammals at the Museum of Natural History (New York, NY). Morden and Clark intended to meet Roy Chapman Andrews in Urumchi, but Chapman Andrews backed out due to political instability in the area. Morden and Clark were later captured and tortured by Mongolian Soldiers for approx. 2 days before returning to Peking and beginning the return home to New York.
MORDEN-GRAVES NORTH ASIATIC EXPEDITION
(1929-1930)
William J. Morden, along with George C. Graves III and George G. Goodwin, secured a series of long-haired Siberian tigers as well as other native animals and birds from Russia Middle Asia and Amur River Valley.
MORDEN AFRICAN EXPEDITIONs
(1922, 1947, & 1953)
More information coming soon.
EXPEDITIONS BY EXPLORER
Col. William J. MORDEN
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IRENE MORDEN
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