Original logbooks of the "Fish Hawk" United States Fish Commission station records Search this
Collection name:
United States Bureau of Fisheries, Records, circa 1877-1948
Physical Description:
1 field book
Physical Location:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Sublocation:
Box 9 Folder 25
Record type:
Fieldbook record
Object Type:
Field notes
Logbooks
Place:
North Atlantic Ocean
Narragansett Bay
Sakonnet River
Rhode Island
United States
Date Range:
1880
Start Date:
18800818
End Date:
18800901
Abstract:
Original logbook of the Fish Hawk, 18 August to 1 September 1880, station record numbers 815-858. 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: Narragansett Bay, Sakonnet River, and the North Atlantic Ocean.
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