Heat capacity study of BaFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$*

We report heat capacity measurements on high quality single crystalline BaFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ between 2 and 300 K in magnetic fields to 14 T. The sample, synthesized by a modified self-flux Bridgman method, shows no evidence of magnetic impurities. The low-temperature heat-capacity data give the electron density of states. The relation of the heat-capacity data to resistivity and magnetization measurements near the 140 K magnetic and structural phase transitions of both as-grown and annealed samples are discussed.