The James Simpson-Roosevelt Asiatic Expedition, sponsored by the Field Museum of Natural History and organized by Kermit Roosevelt and his brother Theodore Roosevelt Jr., departed from New York City for Central Asia. The expedition would return with over 2,000 specimens of small mammals, birds and reptiles, and 70 large mammals, including the Ovis Poli, the great wild sheep and result in the great book East of the Sun, West of the Moon by Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
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