Details - Accessions 172586 and 176603, Marshall & Mariana Islands, 1946-1947

Accessions 172586 and 176603, Marshall & Mariana Islands, 1946-1947

Title

Accessions 172586 and 176603, Marshall & Mariana Islands, 1946-1947

Related Titles

Contained In: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), collected notes, lists, catalogs, illustrations, and records on fishes, circa 1835-1974 and undated

Series: SIA RU007220

Series: Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history

By

Schultz, Leonard P. (Leonard Peter), 1901-1986

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1946-1947

Notes

This item refers to field data collected by Leonard P. Schultz on the Marshall and Mariana Islands, as part of Operation Crossroads, 1946-1947. A title page states that field data is for an accession of "38,706 fishes, crustaceans, reptiles, echinoderms, mollusca, corals, annelids, worms, coelenterates, and algae" collected by Schultz and Capt. Earl S. Herald. The contents of this binder include field data record forms issued by the Division of Fishes, U. S. National Museum. The forms have handwritten entries for tag number, location, locality, date, distance from shore, depth of capture, depth of water, method of capture, collector, list of species or kinds. Includes tallies of specimens measured and wrapped, lists of fishes tagged. Some pages include longer narrative notes on specimens and method of collection.