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