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the origins and early history of the steamer albatross, 1880 - 1887
by Dean C. Allard

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Literature Cited and Selected References


Agassiz, A. 1888. Three cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer “Blake.” Houghton Miflin, Boston, 2 vols.
17 For information on Brooks, see Allen (1978: 36–50).

Allard, D. C. 1978. Spencer Fullerton Baird and the U.S. Fish Commission. Arno Press, N.Y., 424 p.

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________ . 1997. Spencer Baird and the scientific investigation of the northwest Atlantic. Northern Mariner 1997:31–39.

Allen, G. E. 1978. Thomas Hunt Morgan: the man and his science. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton.

Bumpus, H. C. 1899. The reappearance of the tilefish. Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. 1898:321–333.

Coker, R. E. 1949. This great and wide sea. Univ. N.C. Press, Chapel Hill, 325 p.

Cotter, C. H. 1967. The physical geography of the oceans. Am. Elsevier Publ. Co., Inc., N.Y., 317 p.

Cowen, R. C. 1960. Frontiers of the sea: the story of oceanographic exploration. Doubleday and Co., Garden City, N.Y., 307 p.

Dall, W. H. 1915. Spencer Fullerton Baird, a biography. J. B. Lippincott Co., Phila., 462 p.

Dunn, J. R. 1996. Charles Henry Gilbert (1859– 1928), naturalist-in-charge and Chauncy Thomas, Jr. (1850–1919), commanding: conflict aboard the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross in 1902. Mar. Fish. Rev. 58(1–2):3–16.

Galtsoff, P. S. 1962. The story of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. U.S. Dep. Inter., Bur. Commer. Fish., Circ. 145, 121 p.

Goode, G. B. 1883. The .rst decade of the United States Fish Commission. Bull. U.S. Fish Comm. 1882:169–178.

________ and T. H. Bean. 1895. Oceanic ichthyology. Smithson. Contrib. Knowl. 30, 2 vols., 553 p.

Hedgpeth, J. W. 1945. The United States Fish Commission Steamer Albatross. Am. Neptune 5–26.

Herdman, W. A. 1923. Founders of oceanography and their work. Edward Arnold Co., Lond., 340 p.

Jordan, D. S. 1922. The days of a man. World Book Co., Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y., vol. I, 710 p., vol. II, 906 p.

Linton, E. 1915. Reminiscences of the Woods Hole Laboratory of the Bureau of Fisheries, 1882–1889. Science(1915):737–753.

________ . 1927. Reminiscences of the Fish Commission. Collecting Net (23 July 1927):1, 4, 10.

Mooney, J. L. (Editor). 1991. Dictionary of American naval .ghting ships. Vol. I, Pt. A. U.S. Gov. Print. Off., Wash., D.C.

NCAB. 1931. Leslie Alexander Lee. Natl. Cyclopedia Am. Biogr., XXI:140–141.

O’Leary, W. M. 1996. Maine sea .sheries: the rise and fall of a native industry, 1830–1890. Northeastern Univ. Press, Boston, 448 p.

Osborn, H. F. 1901. Goode as naturalist. In A memorial to George Brown Goode, p. 17–24. Gov. Print. Off., Wash., D.C.

Rathbun, R. 1892. The United States Fish Commission: some of its work. The Century 1892: 679–697.

Rivinius, E. F., and E. M. Youseff. 1992. Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian. Smithson. Inst. Press, Wash., D.C., 228 p.

Schopf, T. J. M. 1968. Atlantic continental shelf and slope of the United States—nineteenth century exploration. Geol. Surv. Prof. Pap. 529-F, 12 p.

Schroeder, S. 1922. A half century of naval service. D. Appleton and Co., N.Y.

Smith S. 1889. List of dredging stations of the U.S. Fish Commission. In U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Annu. Rep. 1886:873–1017.
Stanton, W. 1975. The great United States Exploring Expedition of 1839–1842. Univ. Calif. Press, Berkeley, 433 p.

Tanner, Z. L. Annual reports [on the Albatross]. In U.S. Comm. Fish Fish. Annu. Rep. for 1883–1888, var. pagin.

________ . 1885. Report on the construction and out.t of the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. In U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Annu. Rep. 1883:3–116.

________ . 1895. The U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries and its relations with the United States Navy. U.S. Nav. Inst. Proc., p. 107– 124.

Townsend, C. H. 1924. The passing of the Albatross. Nat. Hist. 1924:619–620.

U.S. Congress. 1887. Report on sundry civil appropriations bill. U.S. Senate, 49th Congr., 2nd Sess., Gov. Print. Off., Wash.

________ . 1891. Report on the investigation of the United States Fish Commission. U.S. Senate, 51st Congr., 2d Sess., Gov. Print. Off., Wash.

USFC. 1873. Report of the Commissioner for 1871 and 1872. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash.

________ . 1874. Report of the Commissioner for 1872 and 1873. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash.

________ . 1876. Report of the Commissioner for 1873–4 and 1874–5. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash.

________ . 1878. Report of the Commissioner for 1875–1876. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash. ________ . 1879. Report of the Commissioner

for 1877. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash.
________ . 1880. Report of the Commissioner for 1878. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash.

________ . 1882. Report of the Commissioner for 1879. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash.

________ . 1883. Report of the Commissioner for 1880. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash.

________ . 1884a. Report of the Commissioner for 1881. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash.

________ . 1884b. Report of the Commissioner for 1882. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash.

________ . 1885. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash.

________ . 1886. Report of the Commissioner for 1884. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash.

________ . 1887. Report of the Commissioner for 1885. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash.

________ . 1889. Report of the Commissioner for 1886. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash.

________ . 1891. Report of the Commissioner for 1887. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash.

________ . 1892. Report of the Commissioner for 1888. U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Wash.

U.S. Navy. 1884. Annual report. Hydrogr. Off., U.S. Navy, Gov. Print. Off., Wash.

Verrill, A. E. 1884. Notice on the remarkable marine fauna occupying the Outer Banks off the southern coast of New England. In U.S. Comm. Fish Fish., Annu. Report for 1882:390–391.

Washburn, F. L. 1886. Deep sea dredging on the U.S. steamer Albatross. Am. Fish. Soc. Trans. 1886:20–21.

Young, R. T. 1922. Biology in America. Gorham Press, Boston.


Manuscript Archives

Bureau of Fisheries Records, ca. 1877–1948, Record Unit 7184, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Bureau of Fisheries Records, ca. 1883–1915, Record Unit 7438, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries Records, Record Group 22, U.S. National Archives.

U.S. Navy, Ship Deck Logs, Record Group 24,
U.S. National Archives.


Public Documents

U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Annual Report, 1871–1887. Government Printing Of.ce, Washington, 1873–1888.

U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Bulletin, 1881–1896. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881–1896.

U.S. Congress, Senate, Report on the Investigation of the United States Fish Commission. 51st Cong., 2d sess. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891.

U.S. Congress, Senate, Report on Sundry Civil Appropriations Bill. 49th Cong., 2d sess. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887.

U.S. Congress, Senate, Testimony...in the Investigation of the U.S. Fish Commission. 51st Cong., 2d sess. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891.

U.S. Navy, Hydrographic Of.ce, Annual Report, 1884. Government Printing Of.ce, Washington, 1884.

Periodicals

American Fishery Society Transactions
The American Neptune
Journal of the History of Biology
Natural History
Science U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings



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