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In 1905, the California Academy of Sciences sent 11 men off for a year and a day on an 85-foot schooner destined for the Galapagos Islands. Twenty-six-year-old Washington Henry Ochsner travelled as the expedition’s geologist, and his field book from the expedition, contributed to BHL by the California Academy of Sciences, represent a close and careful record of his scientific observations, including geological survey information and inferences about how geological features were formed.

In 1905, the California Academy of Sciences sent 11 men off for a year and a day on an 85-foot schooner destined for the Galapagos Islands. Twenty-six-year-old Washington Henry Ochsner travelled as the expedition’s geologist, and his field book from the expedition, contributed to BHL by the California Academy of Sciences, represent a close and careful record of his scientific observations, including geological survey information and inferences about how geological features were formed.