Ernest Hemingway, Gulf Stream Marine Scientist: The 1934-35 Academy of Natural Sciences Correspondence

Abstract

In March 1934, Charles Cadwalader of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, asked Ernest Hemingway to help the Academy collect specimens of fish from Cuban waters and the Gulf Stream. Hemingway, Cadwalader, and Academy ichthyologist Henry W. Fowler spent August 1934 on trips aboard the Pilar out of Havana. Hemingway continued to contribute specimens and scientific information for another year, during which he and the Academy men exchanged colorful and detailed letters. Their 1934-35 correspondence documents Hemingway's wide expertise as a sportsman-scientist, and is evidence of his lifelong role as an inquisitive and perceptive naturalist.