Title
1887, 1888, 1236 to 1285
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
1887-1888
Notes
English
Original logbook of the Fish Hawk, 30 August 1887 to 5 September 1888, station record numbers 1236 to 1285. 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 sometimes include lists of specimens collected including quantities. Observers: [J. M. Creighton?]. Locality: Menemsha Bight, Vineyard Sound, Block Island Sound, and the North Atlantic Ocean.
Subjects
Block Island Sound
,
Field notes
,
Fish Hawk (Steamer)
,
Ichthyology
,
Logbooks
,
Marine biology
,
Marine invertebrates
,
Massachusetts
,
Menemsha Bight
,
North Atlantic Ocean
,
United States
,
Vineyard Sound
BHL Collections
Smithsonian Field Books collection
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.98591
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