Some Economic Possibilities in the Galapagos Islands
Some Economic Possibilities in the Galapagos Islands
Some Economic Possibilities in the Galapagos Islands
Some Economic Possibilities in the Galapagos Islands
Some Economic Possibilities in the Galapagos Islands

INVENTORY #135086

Some Economic Possibilities in the Galapagos Islands

OCHSNER, W. H., et al

$750.00 Sale

Antonio Gil was a well-known Guayaquileño who arrived in Galapagos and colonized southern Isabela in 1893. Washington Henry Ochsner (b. July 4, 1879 in Prairie du Sac, Sauk Co., Wisconsin) was a geologist and conchologist. In 1905-06, during an 18-month expedition undertaken by the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, he was in charge of geology, paleontology, and conchology. He discovered fossils on Isabela (Albemarle), Santa Cruz (Indefatigable) and Baltra (South Seymour) islands. His extensive field notes are housed with his archives at the California Academy of Sciences in San Fancisco. After this expedition he acted as a consulting geology and also published scientific papers. Ochsner returned to the Galapagos in 1916. This collection appears to have been compiled by W.B. Sayers, assistant manager of the Hotaling Estate Company in the Merchants Exchange Building, San Francisco, in cooperation primarily with Ochsner.

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  • Date Published: 1915-17
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Details

  • Condition: Very good
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    28 cm. Leather binding with gold print. Boards warped, spine ends chipped, rear cover separating, rubbing to leather. Pocket at rear is empty. Book consists of the following: Map of the west coast of Central and South America; typed letter from W. B. Sayres/Sayers to Captain I. N. Hibberd, June 17th, 1916 regarding commercial "exploitation of the Galapagos Archipelago;" typed letters from Ochsner to W. B. Sayers, June 2, 1916 giving a report on the geology, soil, life zones, water and climate of the islands, his relationship with Don Antonio Gil, etc.; signed legal agreement called Exhibit "G" between Antionio Gil and Ochsner, June 9, 1915 regarding raising of cattle and handling of sulphur; typed latter to Sayers from E. E. Gifford, University of California Museum of Anthropology dated June 4, 1916 about the establishment of a plantation on Indefatigable Island; letter to Sayers from J. S. Hunter of the State of California Fish and Game Commission, dated June 7, 1916, regarding the cattle industry on Albemarle Island; typed letter to Sayers from Joseph R. Slevin, California Academy of Sciences, dated June 2, 1916, about the conditions in the Galapagos based on his observations during the 1905-06 expedition; typed letter to Sayers from Frederick T. Nelson, June 8, 1916, regarding personal observations as Navigator of the Schooner "Academy" with reference to the economic value of the Galapagos; typed letter from Ochsner to Sayers, January 27, 1917, regarding Ochsner's journey to the Galapagos with Captain Hibberd, commencing August 25, 1916, about negotiations in Quito with Don Antonio Gil, cattle, acreage, sulphur deposits, etc.; contract between Antonio Gil and his sons and Ochsner ($150,000 in gold) for establishment of a company known as Gils & Ochsner; two coloured maps with separate descriptions; six b&w photos of cattle on the Galapagos with separate descriptions.

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