Title
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
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