Through the Brazilian Wilderness · Character
John D. Haseman
A naturalist and fish collector whose nets and notebooks turn the expedition's river miles into specimens for the American Museum of Natural History.
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Also known as Haseman, Mr. Haseman
First appearance: i the start
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Praised as a model field zoologist for his painstaking work on South American fishes from 1907-1910, but criticized for his obscure and pedantic writing style.
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Haseman is one of the museum men Roosevelt recruited to make the journey a collecting trip rather than a mere tour. His work — seining, preserving, cataloguing — gives the expedition a scientific purpose beyond…
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