ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
51 
Contribution, Number 133. 
DEPARTMENT OF 
TROPICAL RESEARCH 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
THE WILLIAMS GALAPAGOS EXPEDITION 
By William Beebe 
Photographs by John Tee-Van 
I. RESUME 
HIS expedition, to one of the least visited 
corners of the earth, was conceived and 
achieved in record time, every hope was 
consummated, every expectation realized. First 
and last, the credit belongs to Harrison Williams, 
Esq., who initiated and financed -the whole trip, 
and then to the twelve members of my party, 
who made possible all that we accomplished 
during the limited time at our disposal. 
We left New York on the steam yacht Noma 
on March 1, and returned on May 16. This 
was just in time to rush the collections of live 
mammals, birds and reptiles to the Zoological 
Park, and to frame and hang for exhibition the 
one hundred and thirty oil paintings and water 
colors made during the trip,—in readiness for 
the Annual Garden Party of the Zoological 
Society on May 17. 
During the trip we steamed a total distance 
of nine thousand miles, and crossed the equator 
eight times. Twenty-one memorable days were 
spent on the Galapagos Islands, and we touched 
besides at Charleston, Key West, Havana, 
Colon and Panama. 
To the living collections of the Zoological 
Park were added the following, most of which 
were new to the collections, some being exhibited 
for the first time anywhere in the world: 
Mammals. —5 monkeys, 3 opossums. 
THE ISLAND OF INDEFATIGABLE 
Twenty-five miles across, reaching an altitude of 2300 feet, with dozens of craters, this island is 
wholly unexplored except along the coast. Where buccaneers once buried their treasures, wild dogs now 
roam—waifs from many wrecks. 
