Contribution to Knowledge of the Avifauna of Labrador in 1908. He also did research on egg shells. Hantzsch's research was not restricted to ornithology, and he published Contribution to Knowledge of Northeastern Labrador in 1909. Having secured almost 15,000 marks from the Society of Friends of Nature Institution of Berlin, the Rudolf Virchow Foundation of Berlin, and King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Hantzsch was prepared to spend three years on Baffin Island. According to The New York Times, this trip aroused keen interest in the scientific community. He set off in 1909, and encountered disaster when his ship, the Janthina Agatha, hit ice in Cumberland Sound and sank, losing most of its cargo. Hantzsch and the entire crew found refuge on Blacklead Island. With the assistance of some Inuit, he hauled a boat to Nettilling Lake, reaching it June of the following year. They reached Kokdjuak River at the end of August, and Foxe Channel at the end of September, becoming the first European to cross Baffin Island. Later years Suffering from the hardship of his travels, and having eaten polar bear, Hantzsch died of trichinosis on Baffin Island in 1911. His Inuit companions buried him on the shores of Foxe Basin. Legacy In 1913, his family established the Bernhard Hantzsch Foundation to assist North Polar region exploration. Hantzsch's Baffin Island zoological collections are located at the Royal Zoological Museum of Berlin. His Saxon ornithology collection and Labrador zoological-anthropological collections are located at the Zoological Anthropological Museum of Dresden. The Slavonian egg collection is located at the Dresden Heimatkundliche Schulmuseum. Hantzsch Island, on the southern tip of Baffin Island, and Hantzsch River on Baffin Island are named in his honor. Dresden's Hantzschstraße is named after Hantzsch and his brother Viktor. Hantzsch was an influence on the British Arctic explorer Pen Hadow, who, after finding and reading a copy of Hantzsch's translated diaries in the Royal Geographical Society library, decided to complete Hantzsch's trip. Partial bibliography (1913). Observations on the mammals of Baffin's Land. OCLC 70485001 (1929). Contribution to the knowledge of the avifauna of North-Eastern Labrador. OCLC 31841174 (1930). Southern Baffin Island: an account of exploration, investigation and settlement during the past fifty years. OCLC 3473816 References Bibliography Hantzsch, B., & Neatby, L. H. (1977). My life among the Eskimos: Baffinland journeys in the years 1909 to 1911. Saskatoon, [Sask.]: University of Saskatchewan. OCLC 4497965 1875 births 1911 deaths