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Call Number: SC0457
Creator:
Burke, Charles Victor.
Title: Charles Victgor Burke, Cruise of the Albatross, journals
Dates: 1906
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
Summary: Logbook and personal journal of a scientific expedition on the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries' steamer Albatross; scientists on
board included Charles Gilbert from Stanford University, Harry Beal Torrey from the University of California, Austin Clark
from the Bureau, and Michitaro Sindo, Stanford student. This trip cruised the Pacific, collecting specimens of fish, stopping
in Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Japan, and Hawaii. Many of Burke's entries describe his visits to villages and cities on
route, including Nagasaki, Kyoto, Yokohama, and Tokyo.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Gift of Harold and Claire Cramer, 1987.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
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and educational purposes.
Charles Victgor Burke, Cruise of the Albatross, Journals (SC0457). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Burke earned his a.b. (1907), M.A. (1908), and Ph.D. (1912) in zoology at Stanford University. He then taught at Washington
State University.
Logbook and personal journal of a scientific expedition on the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries' steamer Albatross; scientists on
board included Charles Gilbert from Stanford University, Harry Beal Torrey from the University of California, Austin Clark
from the Bureau, and Michitaro Sindo, Stanford student. This trip cruised the Pacific, collecting specimens of fish, stopping
in Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Japan, and Hawaii. Many of Burke's entries describe his visits to villages and cities on
route, including Nagasaki, Kyoto, Yokohama, and Tokyo.
Burke, Charles Victor.
Clark, Austin Hobart.
Gilbert, Charles Henry, 1859-1928.
Sindo, Michitaro.
Torrey, Harry Beal.
United States. Bureau of Fisheries.
Alaska
Albatross (ship).
Aleutian Islands (Alaska).
Diaries.
Fishes--Research.
Japan.
Logbooks.