Academy South Seas Expedition Pages
Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy


Birds & Mammals

The California Academy of Sciences has a long legacy of scientific research in the Pacific, starting with our 1905-1906 Academy Schooner expedition to Galapagos. The leader of that expedition, Rollo Howard Beck, participated in multiple other trips to Galapagos, Alaska, and down the coast of South America, and later went on to lead the Whitney South Seas Expeditions (1921-1929) for the American Museum. The California Academy also returned to the Galapagos on the Schooner Zaca, which later sailed across the Pacific collecting as far away as Solomon Islands.


These expeditions all traveled by sailboat and left copious field journals and many scientific publications. These provide a baseline with which to compare modern collections and surveys.

Legacy work in the South Pacific:


 
  • We can rely upon historical studies and voyages including these:

  • 1905-06 Galapagos expedition, Leader Rollo Beck, Schooner "Academy"
  • Surveys of Fishes, Expedition Leader W. K. Vanderbilt, aboard Vanderbilt's yacht, "Ara"
  • Templeton-Crocker Expeditions to Galapagos and the South Pacific, aboard the Schooner "Zaca"
  • The Whitney South Seas Expeditions, Leader Rollo Beck, aboard the schooner "France"
  • And many others, including the Voyage of the Beagle and the "Albatross"

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Contact Information

   

Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Drive
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118

415-379-5377
Jack's eMail

For general inquiries about the Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy please contact:

Department Administrator
415-379-5378
mammals@calacademy.org

Page last updated 12 September 2008 (JPD)

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