Book no 3, 1880

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

1880

Notes

English

Original logbook of the Fish Hawk, 3 September to 9 December 1880, station record numbers 859-902. 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 contain lists of scientific and common names of specimens caught. Observer is F. C. Vanvlit, MD. Locality: Potomac River, Narragansett Bay, and the North Atlantic Ocean.

Subjects

Field notes , Fish Hawk (Steamer) , Logbooks , Marine biology , Marine invertebrates , Narragansett Bay , North Atlantic Ocean , Potomac River , Rhode Island , United States

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.98492