Chidy 1958 23 May Wainwright, Alaska See journal account. Some melting of snow on high cobble polygons along the coast. Here the type of polygons back of the church are just peep through. In a short walk back in that area we found a dead lemmy on the surface. Crawford reported an early snow in Sept. 12 which melted in a thaw in October. In early November there was a sudden cold snap which resulted in a big die-off with death of lemmings, easily obtained in large numbers by the kids on the surface. Apparently the kids were clever enough to store the sheep which Crawford would not buy in their ice cellars in anticipation of future sales. I have instructed Crawford and Beere to purchase only live ones this year. His only reasonable to suspect that any lemmings purchased after November were from that kill. It will be highly significant to see if any mature survived this "density udpult"