Includes most of the material held in the SAMS archives for the period up to 1919. When originally founded in 1844, this Church of England-affiliated organisation was called the Patagonian Mission. This collection reproduces the minute books, reports from the mission field, articles & photographs on the geography, anthropology, natural history & economic development for the society's magazine, launched in 1867, as well as the journals of its Anglican founder, Captain A. Gardiner, & 2 others of its missionaries, E. Bernau & A. Henriksen.