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