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Heilprin Exploration Fund
Expedition of 1915
(Guadeloupe)
The Heilprin Exploration
Fund was established in 1914
by relatives of the noted explorer
and geographer, the late An-
gelo Heilprin of Philadelphia,
for the purpose of aiding geo-
graphical work under the aus-
pices of the American Mu-
suem of Natural History. On
account of Professor Heilprin's
well-known work on the 1902-
1903 eruptions of Mt. Pele, Mar-
tinique, it was considered
particularly appropriate that
the first work under the fund
should concern the active