Title
1849 to 1898, July 10-93 to Aug 23 1894
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
1893-1894
Notes
English
Original logbook of the Fish Hawk, 10 July 1893 to 23 August 1894, station record numbers 1849 to 1898. "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: [J. M. Creighton?] and C. H. Cleaveland. Locality: Block Island Sound, Vineyard Sound, Buzzard Bay, Chesapeake Bay, and Long Island Sound.
Subjects
Buzzards 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.98432
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