 Aside from his editorial work at "Science", Boas secured an appointment as "docent" in anthropology at Clark University, in 1888.Boas was concerned about university president G. Stanley Hall's interference in his research, yet in 1889 he was appointed as the head of a newly created department of anthropology at Clark University.In the early 1890s, he went on a series of expeditions which were referred to as the Morris K. Jesup Expedition.