Vol 1

Title Variants

Alternative: Original logbooks of the "Fish Hawk" United States Fish Commission station records

Related Titles

Contained In: United States Bureau of Fisheries, Records, circa 1877-1948

Series: SIA RU007184

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

By

United States. Bureau of Fisheries.

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1881

Notes

English

Second copy of logbook of the Fish Hawk, 16 July to 26 August 1881, station record numbers 917-960. Data recorded include instrument used, current number of observation, date, locality, bearings, time of day and tide, state of sky, temperature of (air, surface of water, at depth of, of bottom), depth, nature of bottom, direction of, force of, name of vessel, to what service attached, name and rank of commanding officer, name and position of observer, and remarks. Remarks include lists of common and scientific names of specimens collected and sometimes include quantity and sex. Locality: Martha's Vineyard, Menemsha Bight, Buzzards Bay, and other localities in New England. Title page contains a list of professor and captain names.

Subjects

Buzzards Bay , Field notes , Fish Hawk (Steamer) , Ichthyology , Logbooks , Marine biology , Marine invertebrates , Martha's Vineyard , Massachusetts , Menemsha Bight , United States

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.98446