102 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I28 



10- 4-49 Medium heavy surf. Swells coming in from the southwest. Beach 

 now flat. Water turbid. 



Cyanea capillata Few 



Burrowing anemone I 



Sea anemone i 



Echiurus echiiirus alaskanus Large numbers, with many detached 



proboscides lying on the beach 



Melaenis loveni i 



Anonyx nugax 1 



Acanthostepheia behringiensis i 



Gammaracanthus loricatus 2 



Melita formosa Few 



Idotaega entomon Few 



/. sabini I 



Pagurus splendescens 2 males 



Dendronotus frondosus 2 



Egg collars of Polinices i fragment 



10-10-49 Morning : Long swells coming in with a 4- to 5-second period between 

 waves. Waves high but were not destructive when they broke. 

 Mist rising from water. Impossible to see more than 150 feet from 

 shore. Air temperature, 9° F. ; water temperature, — 0.8° C. Where 

 the surf had come up on shore during the night the water had frozen, 

 forming a strip of ice about 10 feet wide along the beach. 



10-12-49 A few Themisto libellula washed ashore during the night. 



10-17-49 Light surf with small, short-period swells. Water calm and smooth. 

 No wind. At 9:15 a.m. a thin coating of ice was on the ocean out 

 to about 150 feet. Ice alongshore from freezing water from surf. 

 A small ice ledge has started to form alongshore. The following 

 animals had washed ashore: 



10-17-49 



