6 ALLAN HANCOCK PACIFIC EXPEDITIONS VOL. 1 



In 1898, under the patronage of Timothy Hopkins, Menlo Park, 

 California, the Schooner Julia E. Whalen, Captain William C. Noyes, 

 set out on the Hopkins-Stanford Galapagos Expedition, with Edmund 

 Heller and R. E. Snodgrass in charge of operations that lasted for ten 

 months — October 30, 1898, to August 30, 1899. On the way, Guadalupe, 

 Clarion, and Cocos islands were visited, and in the Galapagos, Cul- 

 pepper, Wenman, Albemarle, Narborough, James, North Seymour, 

 South Seymour, Duncan, Charles, Hood, Chatham, Barrington, Bindloe, 

 Abingdon, and Tower islands. Except for some echinoderms, crustaceans, 

 and mollusks collected along shore, and insects collected in the interior, 

 all attention was applied to vertebrates. The itinerary was recorded by 

 Edmund Heller in his paper on Reptiles (XII) of the expedition, pub- 

 lished in the Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Science, V, in 

 1903. 



In 1904 Alexander Agassiz took charge of another expedition to the 

 Eastern Tropical and Subtropical Pacific — October, 1904, to March, 

 1905. All dredge and trawl hauls were made in deep water. There were 

 only six of them at a depth of less than 1,000 fathoms — 2 off Panama, 1 

 off Aguja Point, Peru, and 3 in the vicinity of Hood Island, Galapagos. 

 Of these, one was at 100 fathoms, one at 300 fathoms, and one at 500 

 fathoms. As in the previous cruise, much pelagic collecting was done. 



In 1905-1906, a party headed by Joseph R. Slevin, representing the 

 California Academy of Sciences, made a cruise to the Galapagos Islands 

 in the schooner Academy, R. H. Beck, Master and Chief of party. The 

 cruise lasted from June 28, 1905, to November 29, 1906. Over a year 

 was spent in the Galapagos, a greater length of time than that of any 

 other expedition. All the larger islands and almost all of the smaller 

 islands were visited. On the way to the Galapagos calls were made at sev- 

 eral locations on the outer coast of Lower California, and at Socorro 

 Island, Clipperton Island, and Cocos Island. Evidently the main object 

 of the expedition was to study the galapagos in detail in order to deter- 

 mine all the specific differences existing in these tortoises from the dif- 

 ferent islands. No other expedition has made even an approach to the 

 number of shells brought out. Apart from these, valuable and extensive 

 collections, especially birds and reptiles, were obtained. The vertebrate 

 marine fauna received some attention, but any that the invertebrate 

 marine fauna or the marine flora received was merely incidental. The ac- 

 count of the expedition by Joseph R. Slevin was not published by the 

 Academy until 1931. (Occasional Papers of the California Academy of 

 Sciences, XVII, pp. 1-162.) 



