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 29
Record type:
Fieldbook record
Object Type:
Field notes
Logbooks
Place:
Maine
Massachusetts
Crab Ledge
Buzzards Bay
United States
Wepecket Island
Date Range:
1881
Start Date:
18810826
End Date:
18810914
Abstract:
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.
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