We hope to continue the collection and publication of these data on 

 an annual basis, and should be glad to include data of a comparable nature 

 from other locations . 



This work was supported by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, U. S. 

 Fish and Wildlife Service, under Contract No. 14-17-008-62 with the Woods 

 Hole Oceanographic Institution. 



Figure 1. The cycle of temperature at the surface (left) and bottom 

 (right) along the series of observation posts for 1959. 

 Heavy dotted and dashed lines indicate minimum and 

 maximum temperatures respectively. 



