It was in this extreme and far away place that on December 18, 1832 a 24-year-old Charles Darwin first encountered indigenous non-Europeans in their native land. The experience impressed him greatly, and made a major and probably crucial contribution to his theory of evolution, especially as it applies to humans.
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We have just received copies of PRI Special Publication No. 61, a biography of Cornell’s first geology professor Charles Frederick Hartt (1840-1878) by William (Bill) Brice (Cornell PhD 1971; Prof. Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh Johnstown) and Silvia de Mendonça Figueirôa, Professor at Universidade Estaual de Campinas in Brazil.
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It has been said that visiting Antarctica is the closest you can come on Earth to visiting another planet. It is a place of striking beauty, extreme conditions, amazing geology and oceanography, and abundant and distinctive wildlife. Antarctica is also changing rapidly, in complex and still incompletely understood ways, and these changes may have huge impacts on the entire Earth.
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