E. M. Brock 1958 Journal Aug 19 Wainwright, Alaska also the person who constructed the large building near the shore at Wainwright. It is the James building and is used as a theater and is the one that appears as if it will slide off the bluff any day. The four trawlers were checked in the morning and retrieved. No Demersus was cought but seven Dicerongs were obtained. During my Wainwright stay, only one snowy owl was seen off at a distance. One long tailed jaeger was reported by Mel. I took short walks about Wainwright and along the shore, not going too far, since there was a slight possibility that a plane might come today. Aug 20 Several more people seen collecting coal from the beach where heavy waves have deposited it. Learned from Byron James that the "beach coal" is an extremely hot coal, much more so than the coal from the mines. There are three coal mines along the Kusk which are visited at times and coal collected from them. Bought the skull of a harbor seal which had been collected more or less recently by Weir Reagovanna Jagelute out towards Day Cape." The seal, which I saw before they butchered it, was about four feet long and probably would have weighed between 150 to 200 lbs. All the estimates seem to