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This paper examines the SS Albatross expedition and the intersection of science and empire in the making of the Philippine maritime environment. In 1907, the United States Government sent its seasoned scientific ship to explore and study Philippine waters and marine resources. For about three years, the Albatross facilitated the mapping of the archipelago’s seas and the accumulation of an immense number of natural history specimens. The expedition illustrated the shifting metropolitan policy to re-delegate America’s ‘duty’ to its new colony from military personnel to federal scientists. Primarily using the field journal of Paul Bartsch, the Smithsonian Institution’s representative on the expedition, this article interrogates various aspects of knowledge making, from the essential role of Filipino collectors to the eventual publication of research on the accumulated species. I argue that the most significant outcome of the Albatross expedition was the transfer of specimens to the metropole, creating and fortifying the United States as an empire of information in the early twentieth century.

Mapping and narrating Philippine waters: Empire and science in the Albatross expedition to the US colony