Title
Original logbooks of the Fish Hawk, station numbers 961 to 1029
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
Original logbook of the Fish Hawk, 26 August to 14 September 1881, station record numbers 961-1029. 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 a chart entitled "water specimens apparatus used" in which various measurements are recorded. Observer is A. P. Chapin. Locality: Wepecket Island, Buzzards Bay, Crab Ledge, and other localities in New England.
Subjects
Buzzards Bay
,
Crab Ledge
,
Field notes
,
Fish Hawk (Steamer)
,
Logbooks
,
Maine
,
Marine biology
,
Massachusetts
,
United States
,
Wepecket Island
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.98503
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