in 1890, menage sponsored a scientific expedition to the philippines in partnership with the minnesota academy of natural sciences. the expedition, led primarily by dean conant worcester and frank swift bourns, collected thousands of specimens of birds and animals; some, such as the philippine slow loris ("nycticebus menagensis") and the sulu bleeding-heart ("gallicolumba menagei"), were named in honor of menage. while many of the specimens from the expedition appear to have been lost or discarded, some remain in the collections of the bell museum of natural history and the field museum of natural history.