WOODWORTH: GEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO BRAZIL AND CHILE. 7 
Til. ITINERARY. 
“The usual bane of such expeditions is hurry; because men seldom allot 
themselves half the time they should do: but, fixing on a day for their return, 
post from place to place, rather as if they were on a journey that required 
dispatch, than as philosophers investigating the works of nature.” 
Gitpert Wuire. The Natural History of Selborne. Letter 
XXVI, December 8, 1769. London: 1789, p. 73. 
The first Shaler Memorial Expedition following a generation after 
the Thayer Expedition to Brazil sailed from New York for Rio de 
Janeiro on the 20th of June, 1908, on the Steamship Voltaire of the 
Lamport and Holt Line. As previously stated the party consisted 
of Professor Ward, Mr. W. P. Haynes, and the author in charge. The 
ship touched at Bahia on July 5th, and reached Rio de Janeiro on 
the 8th of that month. | 
On this lonesome tract straight out from the North American coast 
at New York to Cape St. Roque the voyageur sights few vessels. 
The minor changes of a June and enjoyable sea, the endless piles of 
trade clouds, a solar annual eclipse — that of June 28th, — the first 
view of the Southern Cross, the doldrums and their rains, the so- 
called ‘green ray’’ of the setting sun,— these were the events of the 
voyage of the Voltaire for those members of the party who made their 
first crossing of the equatorial line. 
At Rio de Janeiro we were met and taken care of by Dr. Orville 
A. Derby, Director of the Mineralogical and Geological Service of 
Brazil, and under his tutelage began preparations for the journey to 
the planalto of south Brazil. Our stay in the Capitol was some- 
what lengthened by the necessity of awaiting the discharge of Mr. 
Haynes from the English Hospital, to which institution he had been 
obliged to go for the treatment of an infected bruise received on 
shipboard. At this time and indeed through my stay in Brazil, the 
Capitol suffered greatly from an epidemic of small-pox. According 
to reports given out on leaving the country as many as 6,722 deaths 
were caused by this disease in Rio de Janeiro between January Ist and 
November 22nd, 1908. 
During this interval I visited Petropolis from which point under 
the guidance of Dr. Miquel Arrojado Ribeiro Lisboa an excursion 
was made to the valley of the Piabanha and the picturesque Valle do 
Retiro (see Plate 1), a characteristic portion. of the eroded coastal 
