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involvement as I should have done, I admire him for all he has gone through 
while yet preserving well-functioning, highly integrated behavior. To advise 
him on the complex problems of his private life is impossible. I must now 
depend on him completely to "rescue" the huge serum and red cell and virus 
isolation collections we have made. 
I am still hoping that Ivan will join us in Ponape. Mathias is living back 
at home — his only real home! — in Chevy Chase, and I will not have him with me as 
I hoped I would. That too is sad. For Mat this young in his life and Paul this 
mature in life to pass up high adventure for the muddied waters of infatuations 
is, to me, sad. Nay, love that operates on so restricted a plane is bound to 
bog down and dry up! 
Sailing Graciosa Bay, Nende (Santa Cruz) November 5, 1972 
to Kanggota Bay, Rennell Island 
On smooth waters, a beautiful clear and calm day, we are reading, writing, 
listening to music, and resting — and above all puttering. We have finished 
separating off the red cells and serum from the clots of yesterday's vampiring 
and frozen the clots — but only to -12oc since our -38°C Revco is full! I am 
particularly worried about two matters: 
1, The possiblity that Simon's objection to the last large series of New 
Hebridean red cells is really serious and that he may have discarded 
them without doing ABO and Rh and MnSs grouping and typing. If so, we 
might still salvage some cells from the frozen clots to get ABO groups 
at least, I am sure he had adequate specimens to do this and thus do 
not understand his objection. I hope we have not lost out herein, 
2, I am not sure how well red cell enzymes are preserved for 1-8 weeks at 
-38°C storage. All our clots have been frozen promptly after 
separation of serum to -38°C (until recently when we must settle for 
-12°C) . I only hope red cell enzymes' activity is adequately 
preserved at this temperature?? 
We have had an X-ray "Grand Rounds" in which Dick presented some 25 films 
with severe Interesting chest pathology (about half) or with questionable 
findings on which he wanted our opinion. We have surely found some very 
interesting chest pathology. 
We have taken over 350 chest films on the trip thus far, and we have very 
little X-ray film left as a result. It has been good to have the X-ray 
potential with us. In many places, however, it has been too much a landing and 
boarding problem to get many subjects out to the ship. Now that we are all much 
wiser in the potentialities of the ship and the use of its facilities, we could 
plan equipment and work far more effectively and use both our time and efforts 
more suitably. However, the vast background information one needs in order to 
survey for anything Involving human disease and genetics is only now in our 
possession and on second-go-round we could really do a superb job — but I would 
