p. 146-47: The scientific program of the expedition was sponsored by the Lyceum for Natural History of the City of New York. Newspapers encouraged private citizens to lend books, charts, and instruments to the expedition, and when the Annawan sailed it was said to have on board a fine collection of instruments and several hundred books.
James Eight and the Palmer-Pendleton Expedition of 1829-1831,
Bertrand, Kenneth J. Chapter 9 in Americans in Antarctica, 1775-1948. New York: American Geographical Society, 1971, p. 144-58.
- 1829-30 First Preliminary US Exploring Expedition (Annawan and Seraph with Captains Nathaniel Palmer and Benjamin Pendleton).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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James Eights, 1798-1882: Antarctic Explorer, Albany Naturalist, His Life, His Times, His Works.
McKinley, Daniel L. Albany, NY: State Education Department, 2005. New York Museum Bulletin 505.
- 1829-30 First Preliminary US Exploring Expedition (Annawan and Seraph with Captains Nathaniel Palmer and Benjamin Pendleton).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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Eights was listed as “Naturalist and Surgeon” on the Annawan Antarctic voyage of 1829-1831 and there are fragmentary results of his work on natural history in the published record, but he is an enigmatic figure, excluded like Reynolds from the Wilkes ExEx in 1838. I see no signs of his readings in the impressive library he helped create for the preliminary expedition.