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notes, data, and reports; an assortment of writings and lectures, including versions of an unpublished memoir; correspondence;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 7
Instruction and educational policies
1956-1977
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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