1899 to 1927, Aug 1894-5

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

1894-1895

Notes

English

Original logbook of the Fish Hawk, 11 September 1894 to 14 September 1895, station record numbers 1899 to 1927. "Record of dredging, temperature and density" data include station number, date, time of day, time of tide, locality, exact position, depth, nature of bottom, dredging instrument used, direction of (drift, distance), temperature of (air, surface water, at depth of, at bottom), density at (surface water, at depth of, at bottom), number of salinometer, barameter reading, state of sky, direction of (wind and force), rain, direction of (surface current and force, bottom and force), name of vessel, service to which attached, name and rank of commanding officer, name and position of observer, and notes relating to station number. Notes sometimes include lists of specimens collected including quantities. Observers: James A. Smith, Mate USN, and C. H. Cleaveland, Mate USN. Locality: Vineyard Sound, Buzzards Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and Long Island Sound.

Subjects

Buzzards Bay , Chesapeake Bay , Field notes , Fish Hawk (Steamer) , Ichthyology , Logbooks , Long Island Sound , Marine biology , Marine invertebrates , Massachusetts , United States , Vineyard Sound

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.98435