Charles Melville Scammon

Charles Melville Scammon (1825-1911) spent thirty-five prosperous years at sea, skippering twenty different vessels between 1848 and 1883. During his ten years in the whaling business, he took notes and sketched whales, dolphins, and other sea mammals including sea elephants, sea lions, seals, sea otters, and walruses. These notes and sketches were the basis of Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of North America.