Expeditions and Discoveries: Sponsored Exploration and
Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age

In the 19th and 20th centuries, Harvard University played
a significant role-as underwriter, participant, collector,
and repository-for pace-setting expeditions around the
world. For Internet users, Expeditions and Discoveries
provides selective access to Harvard's multidisciplinary
records of those expeditions. Expeditions and Discoveries
delivers maps, photographs, and published materials, as
well as field notes, letters, and a unique range of
manuscript materials on selected expeditions between 1626
and 1953. It offers important-often unique-historical
resources for students of anthropology, archaeology,
astronomy, botany, geography, geology, medicine,
oceanography, and zoology.