Palestine -- Description and travel of Palestine are well-documented through "Biblical Researches", as well as supplementary notebooks re-titled Biblical Researches in Palestine, and in the Adjacent Regions: Journal of Travels in the
, Greece, Egypt, Sinai and Palestine between 1866 and 1871. He was appointed president of the American Palestine Exploration Society in 1871, vice-president of the American Geographical Society in 1880, and