PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Vol. Ill, pp. 363-370. August 23, 1901, 



PAPERS FROM THE HOPKINS STANFORD GALA- 

 PAGOS EXPEDITION, 1898-1899. 



I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



In the fall of 1898, Messrs. G. W. Kneass and W. Johnson 

 fitted out, in San Francisco, a sealing schooner, the Julia E. 

 W/ialeu, for a cruise to the Galapagos Islands. Thanks to the 

 generous cooperation and liberality of Mr. Timothy Hopkins, 

 Stanford University was enabled to transform this proposed 

 sealing voyage, in part at least, into a naturalists' voyage. It 

 was arranged that Capt. W. P. Noyes, who commanded the 

 schooner, should take on board two representatives of Stanford 

 University, together with their outfit, should land them on the 

 various islands in the Galapagos group as also upon Cocos and 

 Clipperton Islands, should afford them opportunities to make 

 collections of plants and animals, and should then bring them 

 and their collections back to San Francisco. Dr. C. H. Gil- 

 bert, head of the zoological department in Stanford University 

 selected as collectors on this voyage, Robert E. Snodgrass and 

 Edmund Heller, advanced students in his department, who had 

 had experience as collectors. Everything was carried out as 

 planned. Snodgrass and Heller with their outfit on board, 

 sailed from San Francisco with Captain Noyes on Oct. 25, 1898, 

 touched at Guadalupe Island, November 5, were at Clipperton 

 Island, November 23d and 24th and reached the Galapagos 

 Islands, December 8, 1898. Here they remained about six 



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