Explorers with Humboldt's expedition at the basalt cliffs at Regla Finish:Float frame Aerial view of the seat

Aerial view of the seat of the Dukes of Beaufort

folijs latis acuminatis & dentatis

1789 (1791)

Scene from the circumnavigation of the world undertaken between 1822 and 1825 by the French explorer Louis Isidore Duperrey on his ship the 'Coquille'

Explorers with Humboldt's expedition at the basalt cliffs at Regla Finish:Float frame Aerial view of the seatExplorers with Humboldt's expedition at the basalt cliffs at Regla, Mexico, c1820 1839. German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt's (1769 1859) interests included geophysics, geology and botany and he is sometimes called the founder of ecology. He visited Mexico in 1803 1804 during the course of a five year expedition to Latin America. Plate 60 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne by Jules Ferrario.