Martin W. Johnson Papers

Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2020
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
spcoll@ucsd.edu


Descriptive Summary

Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Martin W. Johnson Papers
Creator: Johnson, Martin W. (Martin Wiggo), 1893-1984
Identifier/Call Number: SMC 0012
Physical Description: 6.13 Linear feet (7 archives boxes, 3 cassette boxes, 2 flat boxes, 1 map case folder)
Date (inclusive): 1915-1984
Abstract: Papers of Martin W. Johnson (1893-1984), marine biologist, oceanographer, and professor emeritus at UC San Diego. Johnson was a leader in the study of marine invertebrates and underwater acoustics. The collection contains correspondence, research, writings, drawings, photographs, and sound recordings.
Languages: English .

Scope and Content of Collection

Papers of Martin W. Johnson (1893-1984), marine biologist, oceanographer, and professor emeritus at UC San Diego. The collection documents Johnson's scientific career and includes material dating from 1915 to 1984, including: a small selection of research notes, data, and reports; an assortment of writings and lectures, including versions of an unpublished memoir; correspondence; original drawings; photographs; and sound recordings. Of particular interest at Johnson's original drawings and sketches, notes from various early expeditions and major experiments, and a small selection of photographs from the 1939-40 Gulf of California Expedition documenting the coast and landscape of Baja California. Other photographs show rare images of early Scripps faculty and activity aboard the R/V E.W. Scripps.
There are gaps in the documentation and the papers are not comprehensive, containing only materials set aside by Johnson as being significant; for example, the writings and research does not encompass all of his known work.
Arranged in 6 series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) RESEARCH, WRITINGS, AND EVENTS, 4) VISUAL RESOURCES, 5) SOUND RECORDINGS, 6) WORKS BY OTHERS.

Biography

Martin Wiggo Johnson was born in Chandler, South Dakota on September 30, 1893. In his early years, Johnson worked as a logger and guarded salmon traps from fish pirates. This experience fueled Johnson's interest in ecologies and science. After serving in the army during World War I, Johnson pursued his education.
Johnson attended the University of Washington and graduated with a B.S. in 1923, followed by an M.S. in 1930 and a Ph.D. in 1932. During this time, Johnson taught in public schools. He was an associate professor at the University of Washington from 1933-1934 and the curator of the Friday Harbor biological station in 1934; that year, he was offered a position at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. During World War II, Johnson worked at the University of California Division of War Research, where he researched underwater sounds interfering with sonar reception (identifying snapping shrimp as one source). Johnson also developed and successfully tested a theory about the biological nature of the Deep Scattering Layer, demonstrating the diurnal migrations of plankton in the layer in 1945. For this work, Johnson received accommodations from the U.S. Navy and Franklin D. Roosevelt. After the war, he returned to his focus on the biogeography of the Pacific.
Martin W. Johnson is best known for his research on zooplankton, lobsters, and other marine invertebrates, and for being one of the original co-authors of The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology (1942), the first comprehensive textbook on oceanography.
Johnson was a member of the California Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Microbiology Society, and the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. In 1959, Johnson was awarded the Alexander Agassiz Medal for his outstanding leadership in biological and general oceanography. Martin W. Johnson passed away on November 28, 1984.

Preferred Citation

Martin W. Johnson Papers. SMC 12. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Acquisition Information

Acquired 1981, 1984.

OFF-SITE STORAGE

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.

Publication Rights

Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

Restrictions

Original sound recordings are restricted. Listening copies may be available for researchers.

Digital content

Selected images from this collection, including portraits, certificates, and photographs from the Gulf of California Expedition (1939-40) have been digitized and can be viewed by searching the term "Martin W. Johnson Papers" on the UC San Diego Library Digital Collections website.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946
Oceanographers -- Photographs
Scientific expeditions -- Photographs
Johnson, Martin W. (Martin Wiggo), 1893-1984 -- Archives
E.W. Scripps (Ship)
Gulf of California Expedition (1939)
MidPac Expedition (1950)
Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953)
EASTROPAC Expedition (1967-1968)

 

BIOGRAPHICAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) BIOGRAPHICAL: A small series including diplomas and certificates, publicity, award materials, and memoirs written by Johnson describing his personal life and experience at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Contents date from 1918-1980 and are arranged chronologically.
Box 12, Folder 15

Diplomas and certificates 1918-1959

Box 1, Folder 1

Diplomas and certificates 1923-1983

General note

Diplomas from the University of Washington and the War Manpower Commission; certificates from U.S. Office of Scientific Research & Development, Operation Ivy, and the 30th Anniversary of the Marine Physical Laboratory signed by Fred Spiess.
Box 1, Folder 2

Curriculum vitae and bio-bibliographies 1940-1981

Box 1, Folder 3

UC San Diego library donations 1940-1981

Box 1, Folder 4

San Diego Businessmen's Art club directory 1948-1950

Box 1, Folder 5

Personnel and professional appointments file 1948-1981

Box 1, Folder 6

News clippings 1949-1981

Box 1, Folder 7

Instruction and educational policies 1956-1977

Box 1, Folder 8

Agassiz Award 1959-1963

Box 1, Folder 9

Distinguished Alumnus Award, Pacific Lutheran University 1966

Box 1, Folder 10

Bibliography 1974, 1980

General note

Includes list of Navy research completed 1943-1945.
Box 1, Folder 11

SIO miscellaneous, buildings and space - Floor plans, committees, memoranda, and articles 1976-1982

Box 1, Folder 12

Oceanographic Medley #1 - Personal memoir and family history ca. 1980

Box 1, Folder 13

Oceanographic Medley #3 - "Those were the days: These are the people" - Professional memoir 1980

Box 10, Folder 10

Hand-carved forceps - For handling specimens undated

 

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE: A small selection of professional correspondence, dating from 1924-1984. Files include both ingoing and outgoing correspondence, as well as memoranda. Arranged chronologically.
The 1964 correspondence contains a memorandum to Chancellor York regarding the appointment of the director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography; written by E. W. Fager, Edward Brinton, Abraham Fleminger, and John A. McGowan. The 1976 correspondence contains memoranda to Elizabeth Shor regarding Dr. T. W. Vaughan's policy and contributions to oceanography.
Box 1, Folder 14

1924-1945

General note

Correspondents include: Bennet M. Allen, Charles J. Chamberlain, E.R. Hedrick, Alfred C. Redfield, Harald Sverdrup, T. Wayland Vaughan, Henry B. Ward, Julius A. Furer, P. H. Hammond, G. P. Harnwell, and Robert M. Lewis.
Box 1, Folder 15

1946-1950

General note

Correspondents include: Detlev W. Brunk, Rachel Carson, Harold J. Coolidge, Carl Eckart, Robert Faust, Edward O. Hulburt, Trevor Kinkaid, and Robert G. Sproul.
Box 1, Folder 16

1951-1955

General note

Correspondents include: Demorest Davenport, J. Wyatt Durham, Richard M. Eakin, Roger Revelle, Waldo L. Schmitt, and Harald Sverdrup. Includes correspondence related to the Capricorn Expedition.
Box 2, Folder 1

1956-1959

General note

Correspondents include: Abraham Fleminger, Joel W. Hedgpeth, Roger Revelle, Waldo L. Schmitt, and Torben Wolff. Includes correspondence regarding the Agassiz Award.
Box 2, Folder 2

1960-1965

General note

Correspondents include: Abraham Fleminger, L.B. Holthuis, Clark Kerr, F.N. Spiess, Mildred S. Wilson, and Herbert York.
Box 2, Folder 3

1966-1969

General note

Correspondents include: Robert L. Fernald, L. B. Holthuis, Martin W. Johnson, George A. Llano, Shigeko Ooishi, and Dale W. Rice.
Box 2, Folder 4

1970-1975

General note

Correspondents include: John D. Booth, Fenner A. Chace, Richard M. Hammer, L. B. Holthuis, W. D. McElroy, Phaibul Naiyanetr, William A. Nierenberg, Herman Polz, and Bruce A. Taft.
Box 2, Folder 5

1976-1984

General note

Correspondents include: John D. Booth, John Bunt, Fenner A. Chace, David M. Damkaer, Hiroshi Fushimi, Richard M. Hammer, Cadet Hand, Masao Koizumi, Robert C. Miller, Sigeru Motoda, William A. Nierenberg, B.F. Phillips, Roger Revelle, Elizabeth Shore, and Torben Wolff. Includes tables on Panulirus homarus.
 

RESEARCH, WRITINGS, AND EVENTS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) RESEARCH, WRITINGS, AND EVENTS: This series contains a selection of research, writings, and event materials. The research materials contain notes, data, grant materials, proposals and reports, memoranda, and correspondence; the writings include drafts, drawings, photographs, and correspondence; and the event materials contain lectures and symposium programs. Contents date from 1934-1983 and are arranged alphabetically as subject files.
Some highlights of this series include: materials related to The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology, a University of California Division of War Research roster, and expedition materials.
Box 2, Folder 6

Alaska notes 1959

Box 2, Folder 7

Arctic operations - General notes ca. 1955-1970

Box 2, Folder 8

Arctic operations, Alpha Station - Counts, notes, and drawings 1957-1966

Box 2, Folder 9

Arctic operations, Arctic Ocean 1950-1969

General note

Includes notes, figures, and materials from the Arctic Basin Symposium.
Box 2, Folder 10

Arctic operations, Station Alpha - Sea flow data collections 1957-1963

General note

Includes correspondence and data collected by Dr. Tom English.
Box 2, Folder 11

Arctic operations, USS Burton Island - Research data 1951

Box 2, Folder 12

Bioluminescence - Notes, memoranda, and drafts 1934, 1945-1947

General note

Includes papers titled "Red tide" and "Bioluminescence (phosphorescence) in the sea."
Box 2, Folder 13

Book reviews 1956-1961

Box 2, Folder 14

CalCOFI - Data, drawings, and draft 1952-1981

General note

Includes handwritten draft titled "On monitoring the occurrence of Palinurus lobster larvae along the coasts of California and Baja California."
Box 2, Folder 15

Contract research - Grants, proposal, and reports 1957-1976

Box 2, Folder 16

Copepods - Correspondence and notes 1934-1961

Box 2, Folder 17

Copepods - Drawings and drafts ca. 1935-1965

General note

Includes draft titled "The zooplankton of some arctic coastal lagoons" and other untitled works.
Box 2, Folder 18

Copepods, San Diego Region - Esterly ca. 1935-1965

Box 2, Folder 19

Copepods, tortanus egg hatching - Drawings and photographs ca. 1935-1965

Box 3, Folder 1

Crossroads project diary 1946

General note

Includes Rongelap Yacht Club card, Order of the Golden Dragon Certificate, observations of the first atomic bomb blast at Bikini Atoll, and map of Bikini Atoll with drawings added by Johnson.
Box 3, Folder 2

Crustacea, general - Research data, classification notes, and encyclopedia contributions. 1950-1980

Box 3, Folder 3-5

Deep scattering layers 1945-1982

General note

Includes notes, research reports, photographs, and memoranda; including a memorandum on Johnson's role in research.
Box 3, Folder 6

Deterioration due to marine borers - Drafts, unpublished 1956

Box 3, Folder 7-8

Division of War Research - Roster, preliminary reports, report titled "Underwater noise caused by snapping shrimp," memorandum, and correspondence 1941-1958

Box 3, Folder 9

Eastern area San Juan Archipelago, Skagit Bay - Correspondence, notes, and data 1971

Box 3, Folder 10

Evilbacus princeps - Correspondence, drawings, and negatives 1966

Box 3, Folder 11

Expeditions, general - Itineraries, maps, and data 1951-1975

General note

Includes expeditions: Northern Holiday, Chinook, Mukluk, Seven Tow, Mud dauber, Zetes, Climax, Piquero, Antipode, CATO, South Tow, and Tasaday.
Box 3, Folder 12

Expeditions, Gulf of California notes 1939

Box 3, Folder 13

Expeditions, MidPac - Data and correspondence, and 25th anniversary 1950-1952, 1975

Box 3, Folder 14

Expeditions, Naga - Notes and drawings 1960

Box 3, Folder 15

Expedition, Capricorn - Notes 1952

Box 3, Folder 16-19

Expeditions, Eastropac - Notes, correspondence, drawings (larval and phyllosoma) and figures 1967-1974

Box 3, Folder 20

Fauna, general - List from Galathea expedition logbook, notes, and correspondence 1941-1981

Box 3, Folder 21

Fishes and Fisheries - Notes and news articles ca. 1960-1975

Box 3, Folder 22

Friday Harbor Laboratories, Washington - Notes, correspondence, drawings, memoranda, and itineraries 1929-1982

Box 3, Folder 23

Geological time table, adapted from the Field Museum of Natural History undated

Box 3, Folder 24

The geographic and bathymetic distribution of 147 species of synalpheus and 216 species of crangon (alpeus) - Draft of unpublished report 1944 September 11

Box 3, Folder 25

Guide to the study of plankton 1949 August

Box 3, Folder 26

High speed net, Scripps Tuna Oceanographic research - Notes and data ca. 1958

Box 4, Folder 1

Hydroculture, lobsters, San Diego State University Project 1968-1972

Box 4, Folder 2

Identification and distribution of lobster larvae as related to that of their progenitors - Draft of paper presented at CalCOFI conference 1968

Box 4, Folder 3

Jordan Cruise 57, Cromwell Cruise 51 - Data 1970

Box 4, Folder 4

Jordan Cruise 60 - Data 1971

Box 4, Folder 5

Jordan Cruise 65 - Data 1971

Box 4, Folder 6

Laboratories, Arctic research data 1957-1979

Box 4, Folder 7

Laboratories, postcards 1957-1980

Box 4, Folder 8-10

Lectures 1934-1963

General note

Lectures and talks given at conferences, symposiums, broadcasts, the U.S. Navy planning group, and courses in oceanography.
Box 4, Folder 11

Life in the sea (poem) undated

Box 4, Folder 12

Lobsters - General notes, drawings, photographs, reports, and draft 1947-1983

General note

Includes draft titled "On the biology of the Phyllasoma larvae of Panulirus sp. and Evilbacus sp. and their occurance in coastal waters of California and Mexico."
Box 4, Folder 13

Lobster, Dispersal of lobster larvae - Skipjack survey 1973-1974

Box 12, Folder 12

Maps, annotated - "Harpoon" stations 1-23 and Bikini Atoll ca. 1946-1970

Box 4, Folder 14

Marine life in the Salton Sea - Draft 1947 June 16

Box 4, Folder 15

Marine mammals 1969-1982

General note

Includes memoranda and Marine Operations Committee report.
Box 4, Folder 16

Memorandum to Andrew A. Benson regarding the naming of new SIO biology building - Handwritten draft undated

Box 4, Folder 17

Methods (research) notes and memorandum 1949-1974

Box 4, Folder 18

Natural history notes on some unusual marine phenomena in the San Diego area - Drafts and drawings 1949

Box 4, Folder 19

On a hitherto unknown Phyllosoma larval species of the slipper lobster Scyllarus in the Hawaiin archipelago (Decapoda, Scyllaridae) ca. 1971

Box 4, Folder 20

On monitoring the occurrence of Palinurid lobster larvae along the coasts of California and Baja California (Decapoda, Palinuridae) - Draft 1982

Box 4, Folder 21

On scyllarid lobster larvae of the South China Sea (Decapoda, Palinuridae Scyllaridae) - Draft ca. 1960

Box 4, Folder 22

On the Phyllosoma larvae of the genus Justitia (Decapoda, Palinuridae) - Draft and negatives 1969-1970

Box 4, Folder 23

Pacific Lutheran College 1957-1966

General note

Includes correspondence and speech titled "Eating and housekeeping" written for a 1966 banquet.
Box 4, Folder 24

Palinurid phyllosoma larvae from the Hawaiian archipelago (Decapoda, Palinuridae) - Final manuscript undated

Box 4, Folder 25

Pests, marine - Untitled manuscript undated

Box 4, Folder 26

Phyllamphion - Drawings and correspondence 1969

Box 4, Folder 27

The Phyllosoma larvae of slipper lobsters from the Hawaiian Islands and adjacent areas (Crustacea, Decapoda, Scyllaridae) - Final manuscript undated

Box 5, Folder 1

Phyllosoma notes undated

Box 5, Folder 2

Phyllosoma, Hawaiian - Notes and data 1967-1968

Box 5, Folder 3

Plankton as a source of food 1942-1962

General note

Includes memoranda from the Navy Department Bureau of Aeronautics and the Army Air Forces.
Box 5, Folder 4

The postlarvae of Scyllarides astori and Evilbacus princeps of the eastern tropical pacific - Draft and figure negatives 1973

Box 5, Folder 5

Prediction of ambient noise in shallow waters - Draft 1946

Box 5, Folder 6

Publication - Notes, encyclopedia submissions, memorandum, and committee report 1957-1983

Box 5, Folder 7

Radio broadcast transcripts 1935-1960

Box 5, Folder 8

Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Department of Oceanography on the Institution of Marine Resources - By Johnson, Phleger, and Isaacs 1961 March 29

Box 5, Folder 9

Salton Sea, general - Correspondence, drawings, and photograph 1944-1962

Box 5, Folder 10

Scyllarides astori - Figures undated

Box 5, Folder 11

Scyllarides squamosus 50.7mm gilled stage - Figures and negatives undated

Box 5, Folder 12

Scyllarus delfini - Figures undated

Box 5, Folder 13

Scyllarus sp. drawings, Transpac Expedition 1953-1979

Box 5, Folder 14

Ship operations - Postcards, photographs, and ship announcements 1952-1980

Box 5, Folder 15

Shrimp, general - Notes, data, and memoranda 1956-1973

Box 5, Folder 16

Some antidotes for desert lethargy undated

Box 5, Folder 17

Sonar program, Department of the Navy 1946 March 25

Box 5, Folder 18-19

Specimen slides - Personal inventory, notes, and correspondence 1951-1983

Box 5, Folder 20

Summer club lectures and notes 1975-1981

Box 5, Folder 21

Supplementary note on the larvae of Scyllarides astori holthuis (Decapoda, Scyllaridae) 1974

Box 5, Folder 22-23

Sverdrup, Johnson, and Fleming, The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology 1938-1975

General note

Includes publishing agreement, correspondence, and University of California radio transcript from broadcast #2480, 1943 April 4.
Box 12, Folder 3

Sverdrup, Johnson, and Fleming, The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology - Scrapbook ca. 1942-1945

General note

Includes publicity and photographs of Sverdrup, Johnson, and Fleming; and of a drawing by Sam Hinton.
Box 6, Folder 1

Symposiums and meetings - Programs 1948-1972

Box 6, Folder 2

Time and weather - Poem prepared for F. B. Sumner's retirement undated

Box 6, Folder 3

Translation (partial) - P. L. Kramp, Investigations concerning the shipworm and gribbles at Hirtshals undated

Box 6, Folder 4

Underwater sounds - Notes, radio transcript, and correspondence 1947-1963

General note

Includes transcript from University of California radio broadcast #2683, 1947 January 26. Broadcast mentions Johnson's contributions.
Box 6, Folder 5

Wood boring - Research proposal, slide, memorandum, and correspondence 1947-1961

General note

Includes unpublished paper titled "Deterioration due to marine borers."
 

VISUAL RESOURCES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) VISUAL RESOURCES. Arranged three subseries: A) Drawings, B) Photographs, and C) Lantern Slides.
A) Drawings: Includes certificate drawings, cartoons and caricatures, and scientific drawings by Johnson. The cartoons and certificates feature people interacting with sea life, Scripps faculty, and important events. The scientific drawings consist primarily of line drawings of marine invertebrates. This subseries also includes a drawing by Sam Hinton featuring The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry and General Biology. Arranged chronologically.
B) Photographs: Includes portraits of Johnson; photographs of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, research vessels, and early cruises; a photograph of Harald Ulrik Sverdrup aboard the R/V Maud; and various specimens. Arranged chronologically.
C) Lantern Slides: Includes figures, distribution maps and data, photographs, and line drawings. Arranged alphabetically.
 

Drawings

Box 6, Folder 6

Drawings, cartoons, and doodles 1918-1953

General note

Includes Christmas card commemorating the purchase of the R/V E.W. Scripps titled "If Santa were a sailor, he'd bring us all a ship"; original drawings for Capricorn Cruise certificate; "Our drum major"; "Fort Wordon"; "One of the last to be discharged"; "Shorty the drummer"; "T. G. Thompson and the whale, on his daily trips to and from his island home"; "Tectonus in the Midatlantic Ridge"; "Dr. R. C. Miller of Calif. Acad. Sci. studies migration of birds at Pt. Barrow Ala."; and other untitled works.
Box 6, Folder 7-8

Line drawings, figures, and negatives ca. 1931-1980

General note

Includes drawings of Eucalanus elongatus, pseudodiaptomus, Tortanus discaudatus, Scyllaraides astori, Evilbacus princeps, Panulirus penicillatus, Naga Expedition figures, and unlabeled works.
Box 12, Folder 5

Original drawing dedicated to F. B. Sumner 1932

General note

Drawing depicts a donkey kicking an elephant, as a man stands in disbelief.
Box 6, Folder 9

Lobster, larvae drawings 1944-1971

Box 6, Folder 10

Drawings and cartoons - Bikini Atoll 1946

General note

Includes Christmas card titles "Deep in the sea at Christmas time" and various untitled works.
Box 12, Folder 14

Bikini Atoll atomic bomb test certificate 1946

General note

Drawing by Johnson. Certificate states "Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests, Martin W. Johson in association with the U.S.S. Bowditch served with the Naval Force at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Isalnds through the atomic bomb experiments, 1946."
Box 12, Folder 13

Line drawings and figures - Naga Cruise, Jordan and Cromwell stations with plankton smaples, and Panularius interruptus larvae 1946-1981

Oversize SIO MC-027, Folder 05

Hinton, Sam. Pledge of Fealty poster drawing 1948

Pledge of Fealty (approved form)

General

Artist Sam Hinton drew this poster-sized illustration to hang on the wall at Harald Sverdrup's going-away party at Community House in 1948. Hinton stated it was "not an identifiable caricature of some person active at Scripps. I found no connection between The Oceans and the Loyalty Oath; what I was trying to show was that many people regarded The Oceans as a work of almost sacred standing."
Box 12, Folder 6-7

Line drawings and figure negatives - Scyllarus, Panulirus, and unlabeled works ca. 1949-1981

Box 12, Folder 10-11

Naga Expedition, Phyllosoma line drawings ca. 1960

Box 12, Folder 8-9

Hawaiian Scyllarides, line drawings ca.1960-1970

Box 6, Folder 11

Lobster, Bonacco Expedition drawings 1963

Box 12, Folder 1-2

Eastropac, figures and charts 1967-1968

Box 6, Folder 12

Lobster, Panulirus pascuensis or Panulirus japonicus - Transpac drawings 1969

Box 6, Folder 13

Line drawings 1976

General note

Includes drawings of Phyllosoma laticorne, Scyllarus timidus, Parribacus antarcticus, Scyllarides squamosus, and Arctides regalis.
 

Photographs

Box 6, Folder 14

Scripps Institution of Oceanography ca. 1915-1970

General note

Includes photographs of early buildings (the laboratory at La Jolla Cove), a group faculty photograph ca. 1937, and portraits including: Richard H. Fleming, G. Sproul, F. B. Sumner, W. Coe, E. Moberg, Charles Anderson and Sally Davis, and Zobell.
Box 6, Folder 15

Portraits and photographs of Johnson 1915-1970

General note

Photographs include: U.S. Army portrait, Johnson at the Pacific Lutheran University, with his children, and holding The Oceans.
Box 6, Folder 16

Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (behind the white dog) aboard the R/V Maud during Ronald Amundsen's exploration of the Arctic Ocean, the Maud Expedition 1922

Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (third from right) aboard R/V Maud during Ronald Amundsen's Arctic Maud Expedition

Box 6, Folder 17

Friday Harbor negatives ca. 1923

Box 6, Folder 18

University of Washington - Johnson Hall and portrait of professor Trevor Kincaid 1931

Box 6, Folder 19-20

Miscellaneous animals and specimens 1931-1968

Box 7, Folder 1

R/V E.W. Scripps 1937-1940

General note

Includes photographs of Roger Revelle, Clem Stose, Erik Gustaf Moberg, and unidentified men on deck.
Box 7, Folder 2

Vessels - Zaca and unidentified 1938

Box 7, Folder 3

Goose barnacles on log, La Jolla Shores ca. 1938

General note

Includes Johnson, W. Coe, and F. Whedon.
Box 7, Folder 4

Zoology 112, UCLA class cruises aboard R/V E.W. Scripps - Photographs and negatives 1938-1939

Box 7, Folder 5

Equipment - Dredges, wave machine, and corer 1938-1939

General note

Includes a group photo with the "Williams Dredge" and photos of Herb Mann, Bob Dietz, Eric Moberg, and Ken Emery on the R/V E.W. Scripps.
Box 7, Folder 6

Rock formations and dredge specimens ca. 1938-1940

Box 7, Folder 7

Gulf of California Expedition 1939-1940

General

Includes images of the landscape and towns of Baja California. Several of these images are available on the UC San Diego Library Digital Collections website. Search phrase: "Martin W. Johnson Papers".
Box 7, Folder 8

Scattering layer, data negatives 1945

Box 12, Folder 4

The Japanese Surrender, U.S.S. Missouri, Tokyo Bay - Original print (oversize) 1946 September 2

General note

Original photograph signed, "To Dr. Martin Johnson-SIO with best wishes and great appreciation, C. W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral, USN."
Box 7, Folder 9

The Japanese Surrender, U.S.S. Missouri, Tokyo Bay - Copy negative and prints 1946 September 2

Box 7, Folder 10

Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole 1956

Box 7, Folder 11

Miscellaneous group photographs 1953, 1964, 1981

General note

Include photographs titled "At the entrance of the laboratory" and "On board the S.F. Baird at Shibaura, Tokyo," which include: Brinton, S. Motoda, Bradshaw, I. Gensho, J. A. McGowan, Z. Nakai, M. Ishida, S. Hattori, S. Usami, K. Honjo, T. Hirano, R. Fukai, and K. Ohkubo. Also contains photograph of: Martin W. Johnson, Denis L. Fox, Marie Mathers, William A. Nierenberg, Richard C. Atkinson, and Claude E. ZoBell.
Box 7, Folder 12

Alaska 1957 August

General note

Includes photographs of Johnson towing a plankton net in Cape Thompson and of baleen whale plates in Barrow, Alaska.
 

Lantern Slides

Box 8, Folder 1

Arctic, Chukchi and beautiful seas 1950-1951

General note

Includes quantitative distribution of Echinoderm larvae and Arcartia off Point Barrow, Alaska.
Box 8, Folder 2

Arctic Ocean 1950-1963

General note

Includes barnacle larvae, USS Burton Island, plankton sampling areas, copepod distribution, Herius Cruise, Alaska, Bering Sea, and data.
Box 8, Folder 3-4

Arctic plankton 1941-1963

General note

Includes figures, copepod distribution, egg experiment, and Echinoderm larvae.
Box 8, Folder 5

Bikini Atoll plankton 1946

Box 8, Folder 6-7

Copepods - Various ca. 1925-1960

General note

Includes zooplankton specimen and figures.
Box 8, Folder 8

Deep scattering layer figures 1945

Box 8, Folder 9

Deep sea fishes - Specimen ca. 1925-1960

Box 8, Folder 10-11

Diatoms - Various specimen ca. 1925-1960

Box 8, Folder 12

Dinoflagellates - Specimen and line drawings ca. 1925-1960

General note

Includes kinoflagellates, dinoflagellates, and Cochlodinium Schuetti.
Box 9, Folder 1

East Coast labs, Woods Hole, Massachusetts - Photographs ca. 1925-1960

Box 9, Folder 2

Emerita analoga - Specimen and figures 1950

Box 9, Folder 3

Life histories - Specimen and line drawings ca. 1925-1960

Box 9, Folder 4

Marine algae specimen ca. 1925-1960

Box 9, Folder 5

Marine borers - Figures, specimen, and photographs ca. 1925-1960

Box 9, Folder 6

Marine fauna - Miscellaneous ca. 1925-1960

General note

Includes painting of a giant squid, Bugula avicularia, noctiluca miliaris, schools of luminous fish or jelly fish, and a tube worm removed from tube.
Box 9, Folder 7-8

Marine pests - Figures, specimen, and photographs ca. 1925-1960

General note

Includes starfish, cypris larva/pupa, SIO zooplankton department images, snail radula, and common oyster drills.
Box 9, Folder 9-10

Miscellaneous ca. 1925-1960

General note

Includes panelists interruptus larvae, routes of planktonic immigrants entering the Gulf of Maine, zooplankton images, and image of Johnson and Earl Myers with plankton net aboard R/V Scripps.
Box 9, Folder 11

Physical oceanography of West Coast - Figures and charts 1939

General note

Includes R/V E.W. Scripps Cruise VIII.
Box 9, Folder 12

Plankton, R/V E.W. Scripps Cruise III, IV, V, and VI - Figures and photograph of ship 1938

Box 10, Folder 1-2

Plankton feeding apparatus - Figures, diagrams, and photograph ca. 1925-1960

General note

Includes images of a shark and baleen whale plates in Barrow, Alaska.
Box 10, Folder 3

Plankton volumes and zoogeography, figures 1949-1963

Box 10, Folder 4

Radiolaria, in color ca. 1925-1960

General note

Includes lithoptera species, collosphaera huxleyi, and auloceros elegans.
Box 10, Folder 5-6

Sounds of the sea - Line drawings and figures of shrimp 1940-1950

Box 10, Folder 7

Sweetwater Lake plankton - Figures ca. 1925-1960

Box 10, Folder 8

Water currents - Figures and drawings ca. 1925-1960

Box 10, Folder 9

Zooplankton - Various specimen ca. 1925-1960

 

SOUND RECORDINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) SOUND RECORDINGS: Includes underwater sound recordings featuring marine life. Materials are arranged by format in two groupings, reel-to-reel recordings, and LP records.
 

Reel-to-reel recordings

Box 7, Folder 17

Humpback whales - Preamble, whales at night on Challenger Banks, preamble, whales off Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, preamble whales in deep water 1953-1960

General note

7" reel-to-reel. Recording from Navy SOFAR Station, Bermuda.
Box 7, Folder 19

Recordings of undersea marine life by Virgil E. Harris, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1954 March

General note

4" reel-to-reel. Recordings of commercial fish and shellfish, to help fisherman locate them by their sounds.
Box 7, Folder 18

California grayback whale sonic sound sample, U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory 1954 October 5

General note

7" reel-to-reel. Recorded two miles off Point Loma, California. Speaker gives descriptive introduction. Actual whale sounds begin at 01:46.
Box 7, Folder 20

Animal sounds in the sea 1961 July

General note

4" reel-to-reel.
 

LP records

Box 11, Folder 1

Biological sounds, porpoise 10A-1, 324Y-1, University of California Division of War Research ca. 1939-1945

Box 11, Folder 2

Biological sounds, porpoise whistle 10A-3, 374Y-1, University of California Division of War Research ca. 1939-1945

Box 11, Folder 3

Biological sounds, opsanus 10A-4, 381Y-1, University of California Division of War Research ca. 1939-1945

Oversize SIO-MC-XXX

Underwater sounds of biological origin, recording no. 5X, University of California Division of War Research (16" oversize) ca. 1939-1945

Oversize SIO-MC-XXX

Underwater sounds of biological origin, Navy Electronics Laboratory recording no. C-2222 (16" oversize) ca. 1939-1945

Oversize SIO-MC-XXX

Ambient water noise, 14th Naval District, recording no. 65X-1, University of California Division of War Research (16" oversize) ca. 1939-1945

Box 11, Folder 4

Navy Electronics Laboratory recording no. C1130 and C1131 - Underwater sounds of biological origins 1943

Box 11, Folder 5

Navy Electronics Laboratory recording no. C1132 and C1133 - Underwater sounds of biological origins 1943

Box 11, Folder 6

Navy Electronics Laboratory recording no. 1102-C - Sounds of Biological Origin, San Diego ca. 1943-1950

General note

Labeled as no. 48 of Saluda series, sea robin.
Box 11, Folder 7

Navy Electronics Laboratory recording no. C2239 and 706Y-1 (2 records) - Animal sounds in the sea ca. 1943-1950

Box 11, Folder 8

Navy Electronics Laboratory recording no. C1126 - Animal sounds in the sea, separate cuts I: micropogon, toadfish; Spotfin croaker isolated in aquarium; black croaker and click variation, isolated in aquarium; croaker chorus, SIO; and croaker (light propeller) 2 miles off Point Loma ca. 1943-1950

Box 11, Folder 9

Navy Electronics Laboratory recording no. C1127 - Animal sounds in the sea, separate cuts II: fish (saluda); fish (Saluda and sea robin beginning); fish (Saluda tapping); shrimp, Point Loma, depth of 70 feet; and shrimp individual snaps in aquarium ca. 1943-1950

Box 11, Folder 10

Navy Electronics Laboratory recording no. C1129 - Animal sounds in the sea, separate cuts III: "lost kitten," San Diego; moaning 200 miles off San Diego; evening noise, T. Hawaii; moaning, T. Hawaii; and croaker chorus, SIO pier ca. 1943-1950

Box 11, Folder 11

Navy Electronics Laboratory recording no. C1596 - Sea noises picked up at the Kaneohe, Hawaii, and Sofar Station, part I & II ca. 1943-1950

 

WORKS BY OTHERS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) WORKS BY OTHERS: A small selection of drafts and papers written by Johnson's colleagues, primarily on the topic of marine invertebrates. Arranged alphabetically by author's name.
Box 7, Folder 13

Fitch, John E. Establishment of a sport fishery in Salton Sea, California undated

Box 7, Folder 14

Marukawa, H. Plankton list and some new species of copepods from the northern waters of Japan 1921

Box 7, Folder 15

Saldaña, Héctor C. Contribution to the knowledge of the lobsters of the Mexican Pacific regions and its fisheries - Translation by A. Alveraneo ca. 1969

Box 7, Folder 16

Yeatman, Harry C. Some redescriptions and new records of littoral copepods for the Woods Hole, Massachusetts region ca. 1963