EXPEDITION TO POINT BAEROW, ALASKA. 



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Tho largo sea anemones brought Lome by th" expedition belong, in all probability, to this 

 species, as well ;is can be made out from alcoholic specimens. The color, when living, varied from 

 bright orange red to crimson, IVeijiiently in splashy stripes on a paler ground. 



Large numbers were, washed ashore during the great: gales in the autumn of ISSI, and they 

 were occasionally picked up on the beach during the season of open water of 1882. They appeared 

 to be rather plenty on what was called the "fishing-ground," a place about two miles from the 

 shore, where the natives were catching polar cod through the ice in 10 to 15 fathoms of water. A 

 few large ones were dredged oil' Point Franklin, iu 13 fathoms. 



This species is cirenmpolar in its distribution, and is recorded from Greenland, Norway. Ice- 

 land, England, the cast coast of North America as far south as Cape Cod, Bering Strait, Sitka, 

 Puget Sound, and the Arctic Ocean between Nova Zernbla and Fran/ Josef Land. 



Subfamily PHELLIN^E. 

 3. ? PHELLIA ARCTICA Verrill. 



Several specimens of a rather small polyp, with a rough thickened epidermis and covered with 

 grains of sand, were dredged off the station, in from 2 to 5 fathoms, especially on the patches of 

 mud and sand mixed. 



All the specimens have the disk and tentacles retracted, and are. much shrunk in the alcohol, 

 so that identification is practically impossible. 



They are very likely to belong to this species, which was described by Verrill from a single 

 specimen brought home by the North Pacific Exploring Expedition from the Arctic Ocean north 

 of Bering Strait, in 30 fathoms of water. 



A species of Phcllia, which is probably the same as this, was obtained by the Austro-Hungariaii 

 Expedition, in 1873, during their drift between Nova Zembla and Franz Josef Land. 



A third species of Actiuoid polyp also occurred on the beach in large numbers among the largo 

 sea anemones. Specimens were obtained, but were spoiled in the attempt at preservation. In 

 contraction, it appears to be devoid of a sucking disk at the base, and takes a spherical form. 

 The color is white and translucent like pure paraffiue, and the radiating septa are visible through 

 the walls, giving it the appearance of a large gooseberry. 



HYDROZOA. 



My drawings of Medusa; observed near Point Barrow, with the notes I made concerning them 

 have been referred to Mr. J. W. Fewkes, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 

 Mass., who has kindly examined them, and presents the following report : 



iLIST OF TUE MEDUSA FROM NEAR POINT BARROW, ARCTIC OCEAN. 



By J. WALTER FEWKES, Ph. D. 



CTENOPHORA. 

 eroi; roseola (sp. Ag.). 

 Mertcnsia ovum Miirch. 

 Pleurobracliia rhododactyla Ag. 



DISCOPHORA. 



Aurelia labiata ? Cham, et Eyren. 



Cyanea Postelsii f Br. 



Chrysaora mclunaster Br. 



Large Discophore, "rich blue violet" in color. 



