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Holmes,R
1959
Journal
3).
17 July Barrow, Alaska
Spent working on specimens, etc. The
weather was very windy with some
snow flurries.
18 July Barrow, Alaska
A.T.C.S. was checked during the morning. The
Footprint Lake was again clicked
during the entire afternoon and evening.
A Calif. Gray Whale, 9, was killed
and brought in at 1500. By 1800
when we arrived there it was
sluffed up and little could be seen.
14 July Barrow, Alaska.
The morning was spent so.1 Footprint
Lake, and the afternoon was gone
watching another whale (gray)
being cut up. Lic and barnacles
were collected and she was
locating freely. It was nearly 45
feet long.
20 July Barrow, Alaska
The jaeger nests were checked,
and one was fended in. Weather
windy, but clear. A trip was made
out almost to Nuvuk. Two old
walrus carcasses were found
and also several dead Pallid
Murrees.