Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-1899: J.B. Hatcher in charge

1901-32

Expeditions (Special Collections) Q115 P9 1896

Princeton: The University

Felis pearsoni (Red phase) - Puma

Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896-99. Some sixty years after Charles Darwin and Robert Fitzroy’s Beagle expedition to Patagonia, Princeton University conducted three expeditions to the area with the first leaving Brooklyn on February 29th, 1896. Professor William Berryman Scott (1858-1947), head of the Geology and Palaeontology Department and the curator and palaeontologist, John Bell Hatcher (1861-1904) planned and led the expeditions. Ostensibly a palaeontogical expedition, the team also observed and researched the geology, zoology, anthropology and botany of the area.