Two members of a four-man Task Force 

 Committee scheduled to review research pro- 

 grams of the Marine Mammal Biological 

 Laboratory 1-lZ November 1965 were on St. 

 Paul Island 6-14 August to gain information 

 that later assisted thenn in their review. They 

 were: Committee Chairman Gerald V. Howard, 

 Director of the Bureau of Commercial Fish- 

 eries Tuna Resources Laboratory at La JoUa, 

 Calif.; and Marvin D. Grosslein, biometrician 

 fronn the Bureau's Biological Laboratory at 

 Woods Hole. Mass. 



Thon-ias C. Poulter, Director, Stanford Re- 

 search Institute, and assistants Diane Slaughter 

 and Richard Jennings were on St. Paul Island 

 19-29 July to make sonar recordings of fur 

 seals for the Institute's Biological Sonar 

 Laboratory. 



Allison M. Craig and assistant Fred Tarasoff 

 studied reproductive maturation in female fur 

 seals on St. Paul Island 6 August to 15 Sep- 

 tember. Miss Craig represents the Fisheries 



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Research Board of Canada, which supports 

 her fur seal research at the University of 

 British Columbia. 



Joseph Daniels, embryologist from the Uni- 

 versity of Colorado, was on St. Paul Island 

 18-31 August to study in-vitro incubation of 

 fur seal blastocysts. He was assisted by 

 Michael Cowan. 



Francis H. Fay of the U.S. Public Health 

 Service was on the Pribilof Islands 17-26 Au- 

 gust examining shrews, lemmings, and foxes 

 for the hydatid tapeworm (Echinococcus). 



Keith Farrell, Departnnent of Agriculture, 

 Washington State University Extension, was 

 on St. Paul Island 17-18 August in connection 

 with a study proposed for determining the 

 susceptibility of fur seals to salnnon poison- 

 ing and Elokomin fluke fever. These diseases 

 are carried by the intermediate stages of the 

 intestinal fluke Troglotrema salmincola that 

 infects salnnon. The flxike matures in 



carnivores. 



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