Alaska journal, v4407
Page 47
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C H I L D S 1951 July 13 Point Barrow, Alaska (Cont) Dr. Paul Voth gave a seminar on the Biology of Marchantia in the evening. July 14 After sleeping late I went to look for a seal reported washed up on the beach towards the Village. Apparently it had been picked up by the Eskimos. John Williams took me down and showed me his equipment for the study of magnetism. The equipment was installed in an insulated house on a marble table. By use of photographic paper + chromatic 24 hour records are taken on declination. In the afternoon we went out to the trap line but got no mammals. A few phalaropes were collected. 2 Parasitic Jaegers were seen on the ground, dark phases. The wind has been high and the weather as cold as we have seen it since we arrived. Almost ocean ice is left due to the offshore east winds. After the movies Mayer, Chambers, Boelke, Gil & 9 collected invertebrates along the shore. There were several species of crab found; a sercid worm, other polychaetes, Echinus at another similar thing, several sponges, 2 jelly- fish, a nudibranch, several amphipods, pychnogorids etc. Gil & 9 played Ken and Frank at bridge during which we bid + made 2 small slans in a row!