NO. 9 



10-28-49 The following animals were washed ashore on the beach at the base 

 (Lafocina, Eucratea, and Psoitis are from the rubble zone) : 



Lafoeina maxima Common 



Eucratea loricata i colony, with eggs of an eolid attached 



Alcyonidium discijorme Few 



Psolus chitinoides i 



Dulichia spinosissima I 



Caprellid i large 



Egg collar of Polinices i with mass of snail eggs attached 



Mya truncata i shell 



II- 4-49 The following animals, all frozen, were on the shore this morning: 



Lafoeina maxima Few 



Eunephthya rubiformis i 



Stomphia coccinea 3 



Cyanea capillata Common 

 Echiurus echiurus alaskanus Common 



Alcyonidium disci forme Few 



Themisto libellula 2 



Melita formosa 1 



Idotaega entomon 3 



/. sabini 2 



Pagurus splendescens 3 



Aldisa setlandica (?) i 

 Egg capsule masses, of snails Few 



Timicate (sp. i) I 



Tunicate (sp. 2) 2 



11-17-49 Afternoon (2 p.m.) : Ice cakes grounding and building up. Some had 

 been thrown ashore and piled up during the night. Some freshly 

 frozen blue-green ice on the shore. Water between the ice cakes 

 frozen from 3 to 5 inches thick. Leads still present. Open water 

 a mile from shore. 



II -19-49 A lead has developed along the shore and extends southward. Ice 

 floes in some areas are being pushed out to sea again. A 43-mile- 

 an-hour northeast wind is blowing. In the lead two or three differ- 

 ent kinds of medusae were floating southward. A fragment of 



