Hassler

By Robert Young, Special Collections Librarian Best known as the Hassler Expedition’s young zoological artist from Provincetown, Blake entered business in early life with his stepfather before deciding to enroll at Harvard’s Lawrence Scientific School in...

[This post is part of a series on the archives of the 1871-1872 Hassler expedition, written by Bruno Costelini, Science without Borders intern at the Ernst Mayr Library] The last main station of the Hassler deep-sea dredging expedition before reaching its...

[This post is part of a series on the archives of the 1871-1872 Hassler expedition, written by Bruno Costelini, Science without Borders intern at the Ernst Mayr Library] By the end of May 1872 the Hassler deep-sea dredging expedition had reached the warm...

[This post is part of a series on the archives of the 1871-1872 Hassler expedition, written by Bruno Costelini, Science without Borders intern at the Ernst Mayr Library] As the Hassler deep-sea dredging expedition reached Patagonia and the Strait of...

[This post is part of a series on the archives of the 1871-1872 Hassler expedition, written by Bruno Costelini, Science without Borders intern at the Ernst Mayr Library] After being prevented from going onshore in Recife due to a yellow fever outbreak in...

[This post is part of a series on the archives of the 1871-1872 Hassler expedition, written by Bruno Costelini, Science without Borders intern at the Ernst Mayr Library] As the year of 1871 was drawing to a close the Hassler steamed its way off the U.S...

[This post is part of a series on the archives of the 1871-1872 Hassler expedition, written by Bruno Costelini, Science without Borders intern at the Ernst Mayr Library] Things did not look too good at the outset of the Hassler deep-sea dredging...