U.S. Fish Comm records, nos 1029-1049, 1881

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, 14 September to 10 October 1881, station record numbers 1029 to 1049, followed by data from 26 August 1881, numbers 1006 to 1014. 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. Locality: Vineyard Sound the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Massachusetts, Cape Delaware, and other New England and the Mid-Atlantic localities.

Subjects

Field notes , Fish Hawk (Steamer) , Ichthyology , Logbooks , Marine biology , Marine invertebrates , Massachusetts , North Atlantic Ocean , United States , Vineyard Sound

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.99095