International Whaling Conference on Historical Whaling records

File

Identifier: 003-02-36

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Collection includes scholarly and scientific papers that were contributed to and collected by the conference as well as records related to the agreements following the conference such as a bibliography of resources, general policy statement, Report of the Biological Subcommittee, Report of the Subcommittee of Historian and Scholars, details related to logbook entries, voyage summary data sheet, voyage summery record and logbook reading report template.

Dates

1977-09-12 - 1977-09-16

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

PPL does not claim copyright to this collection. Users of this item are responsible for determining copyright restrictions.

Biographical / Historical

The collection includes a collection of papers distributed at the International Workshop on Historical Whaling Records held at the Kendall Museum in Sharon, Massachusetts in September 1977. The conference was sponsored by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, the International Whaling Commission, and the Kendall Whaling Museum, the Workshop was attended by some thirty specialists in a wide range of marine study. Participants came from Australia, South Africa, Canada, England, Japan and the United States.

The objective of the Workshop was to determine if historical whaling records could provide the data required to adequately assess the status of whalestocks which were subjected to early whaling. At the conclusion of the meeting, it was announced that the Workshop had determined such a study was feasible and should proceed. This was the first coordinated effort to utilize whaling logbooks and journals for the basis of scientific study.

Some of the papers include annotations by Virginia Adams, then an employee of the Providence Public Library who attended representing the Nicholson Whaling Collection.

Extent

3 folders

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

Materials are arranged into three folders: Preliminary reports of the conference; Contributed papers; Published papers.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Materials were collected by Virginia Adams on behalf of the Nicholson Whaling Collection.

Related Materials

002, Nichsolson Whaling Collection including all sub-collections of logbooks and ship's papers.

Bibliography

Symposium papers were later collected and printed as a separate volume: Historical whaling records : including the proceedings of the International Workshop on Historical Whaling Records, Sharon, Massachusetts, September 12-16, 1977 / edited by Michael F. Tillman and Gregory P. Donovan.

Processing Information

Previously part of general Nicholson Whaling Manuscript Collection, Subgroup 29. Processing by James E. Connor in 1993, Judith Lund in 2008 with additions made to the finding aid by Janaya Kizzie in 2014. The decision to reprocess the subgroups as individual collections was made by Jordan Goffin in 2018. The collection was reprocessed by Kate Wells in 2024.