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Title: Conversation among 8 Ottawa at Cross Village
Identifier(s): audio:9134; APSdigrec_0575; Series: 02; Recording Number: 13; Program Number: 01
Description: Informal group conversation in English with some Ottawa words. A short story about an Ottawa chief named Sagima is told in English by Mrs. Bill Norton, starting at 01:34.; Originally recorded on wire recorder in 1948 and transferred to reel-to-reel tape in 1949.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Conversation; Fish; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1948

Title: Vesica Natatoria Trigl. Cucul. Lin. Bremae
Identifier(s): graphics:896; APSimg6242
Creator: Berkenkamp, Johann-Christoph
Source: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B284d-ead.xml
Subject: Natural history; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Fish
Date: September 12, 1807

Title: Text 3: How a fish-trap is made
Identifier(s): audio:6180; APSdigrec_1956; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 03
Description: This program consists of the researcher reading back a text in Quileute from Manuel J. Andrade's "Quileute Texts" (see Related Resource) to a Quileute-speaking consultant who assists in pronunciation, provides explanation, and suggests corrections. Interactions in English, with infrequent English translations of the text.
Source: Hamp, Eric P. Quileute texts, 1969. (Mss.Rec.73);
Subject: Quileute language--Texts; Quileute Indians--Material culture; Quileute Indians--Fishing; Fish traps--Washington (State)
Date: 1969-08

Title: Proposals for publishing by subscription, a work on the fish of North America, with plates, drawn and coloured from nature. By C. A. Lesueur
Identifier(s): text:567; APSimg6664; Goodman Number: 227
Description: Prospectus for a work on the fish of North America. Intended for a broad audience, subscribers would be able to purchase volumes from the series at forty cents a piece.
Creator: Lesueur, Charles Alexandre, 1778-1846
Source: Pamphlet Collection (597 L56p);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Fish
Date: 1827

Title: Discovery of viviparous fish in Louisiana. New Orleans, Nov. 1, 1854
Identifier(s): text:559; APSimg6645; Goodman Number: 220
Description: Reprinted from the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal.; Item call number: 590 Pam. v. 14, no. 2.
Creator: Dowler, Bennet, 1797-1879
Source: Zoological Pamphlet Collection (590 Pam. v. 14);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Fish
Date: 1854

Title: Histoire naturelle économique et politique des poissons utilies; précédée de celle des morses, des phoques et des cétacées
Identifier(s): text:595; APSimg6612; Goodman Number: 229
Description: Prospectus for a work published as Histoire générale des pêches anciennes et modernes dans les mers et les fluves des duex continens (Paris, 1815). Noël de la Morinière's life-long study of fish, both from the viewpoint of their natural history and economic value, earned him the offices of inspector of navigation and inspector general of oceanic fishing in France.; Located in folder: Morniere to Thomas Jefferson. 1813 February 5.
Creator: Morinière, Noël de la, 1765-1822
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives); http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/a/apsmc.xml
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Fish; Aquatic animals; Fishing industry
Date: 1812

Title: Fossil fish in the collections of the [William Willoughby Cole, 3rd] Earl of Enniskillen and Sir Philip Grey [Malpas] Egerton, Bart
Identifier(s): text:769; local: APSimg6698; local: 206
Description: Lists well over 300 species of fossil fish in the two collections. The large fossil fish collection amassed by Enniskillen and Egerton was purchased by the British Museum (Natural History) in 1883.
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Paleontology; Natural history; Fossils; Fish; Paleontology
Date: 1841

Title: Central Pomo story about a game between the sucker and the eel
Identifier(s): audio:10202; APSdigrec_1772; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 03
Description: Story given in Central Pomo, then in English. Central Pomo segment may contain additional material not given in English segment.
Source: Mithun, Marianne. Interviews with Frances Jack, 1984-1985. (Mss.Rec.142);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Central Pomo language; Pomo Indians--Folklore; Fish--Folklore; Catostomidae; Eels
Date: 1984

Title: Codex C: 130
Identifier(s): graphics:2532; APSimg5550_CodexC_130
Creator: Clark, William, 1770-1838
Source: Lewis and Clark Journals. (Mss.917.3.L58);
Subject: Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); Clark, William, 1770-1838; Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809; Discovery & exploration; Fish; Hunting
Date: August 19, 1805

Title: Codex J: 093
Identifier(s): graphics:2620; APSimg5141_CodexJ_093
Description: Moulton #: 6:343
Creator: Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809
Source: Lewis and Clark Journals. (Mss.917.3.L58);
Subject: Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); Clark, William, 1770-1838; Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809; Discovery & exploration; Fish
Date: February 24, 1806

Title: 13 Exchange Street, Boston, April 4, 1874. The accompanying article, "In the laboratory with Agassiz," appears in Every Saturday of April 4, 1874, and by the kind permission of the author and publisher is placed at the disposal of the Agassiz Memorial Committee.
Identifier(s): text:1776; APSimg6486; Goodman Number: 236; 973 C683 No. 644
Description: The introduction is signed in type by Ja[me]s M. Barnard, treasurer of the fund. Samuel H. Scudder's anecdotal account of his first contact with Agassiz.
Creator: Agassiz Memorial Committtee
Source: Broadsides Collection (973 C683);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Natural history; Zoology; Fish
Date: 1874