Death
On July 21, 1932 Hoffmann joined a group of scientists on an expedition to California's Channel Islands to explore San Miguel Island for fossil remains of the prehistoric Pygmy Mammoth. Later in the day he separated from his party to search for specimens of a rare flower on the island’s rocky cliffs. After he failed to return the group searched the foggy island for some eight hours before finding his body at the base of a steep cliff. The handle on his climbing trowel had broken, apparently causing his fatal fall.
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