Participants
The members of the interdisciplinary team represented the best scientists, artists, and photographers of their time.
Arctic Experts
- William Brewer, Naturalist
- John Muir, Naturalist
- William Dall, Paleontologist, Geographer
Botanists
- Frederick Coville, Botanist
- Thomas Kearney, Botanist
- De Alton Saunders, Botanist
- William Trelease, Botanist
- Bernhard Fernow, Forester
Biologists and Zoologists
- Wesley Coe, Biologist
- Daniel Elliot, Zoologist
- Clinton Hart Merriam, Zoologist
- William Emerson Ritter, Biologist
- Trevor Kincaid, Entomologist
- A. K. Fisher, Ornithologist
- Charles Keeler, Ornithologist
- Robert Ridgway, Ornithologist
- William H. Averell
- Leon J. Cole, Ornithologist
Geologists and Geographers
- W. B. Devereux, Mining engineer
- Benjamin Emerson, Geologist
- Henry Gannett, Geographer
- Grove Karl Gilbert, Geologist
- Charles Palache, Geologist
Artists and Photographers
- Edward Curtis, Photographer
- Frederick Dellenbaugh, Artist
- Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Bird Artist
- R. Swain Gifford, Artist
- D. J. Inverarity, Photographer (Curtis’ assistant)
Writers
- George Bird Grinnell, Expert on Native American Culture (Editor, Forest and Stream)
- John Burroughs, Author
Harriman also brought a medical team, a chaplain, hunters and packers, guides, and taxidermists. He brought his own family and his servants. Together, with the crew of the Elder, the total number of people on the ship was 126 (Burroughs, 1901).
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—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)