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The virus isolation specimens mostly suffered the same history including 
the "thaw'j as the clots, except for one lot in the laboratory refrigerator 
freeze compartment at about -10°C for the whole time until packed in dry 
ice. 
The huge logistic problem of getting the shipment to Rosen's laboratory 
and the clots safely into a Revco, and the serum and virus specimens all off 
to NIH is still on Raymond Roos, and we are still sitting on some 1300 serum 
specimens on board the Alpha Helix in our -15°C cold room. 
I am comfortably no longer Chief Scientist and can thus relax further, 
and by this time I should be superbly happy. Ivan has worked well with 
us and been of enormous assistance when we needed it most. He is seeing a 
good part of the Pacific he had not known of before. 
Raymond has been an enormous help on this trip, enormously conscientious 
and professionaly competent, enormously willing to undertake the most menial 
of chores and ready to learn anything and everything he did not previously 
know. He has become a superb member of the expedition and will be a most 
valuable expeditionary coworker anytime in the future I can have him along. 
He neither shunned late hour work, early risings, hard manual work nor 
excruciatingly boring packaging and serum separating chores, and he worked 
wonderfully with the people. He knew very little of anything about work 
on such expeditions when he started, and during the trip learned rapidly. 
Obviously Paul Brown's expertness and efficient » able, and responsibility- 
assuming behavior has influenced all the others, and thus Paul contributed 
immensely even though he did leave us in mid-stream, before the going got 
really tough — Raymond's final high level of responsibility in delaying his 
departure to work fiendishly with us for four days to package and get off 
the specimens and to shepherd them to Honolulu and see to the logistics of 
their further handling is an immense contribution to our effort I I admire 
him greatly and feel heavily indebted to him for all he has done. 
Dick Ferber has had a very heavy role of clinical and laboratory res- 
ponsibility which he has managed expertly. I unfairly shifted all the res- 
ponsibility for equipping and planning the laboratory work and field supplies 
of this trip onto him and Steven without giving them adequate supervision 
at all, and I have unfortunately whined and complained too much about the 
failures and shcrtcomings of the supplies and planning, to which I did not 
lend a hand. This has put Dick at a disadvantage, and thus Paul Brown, 
and later, Raymond Roos, tended to push more aggressively to the fore in 
assuming responsibilities and displaying self confidence. However, stuck 
often with the most boring and unrewarding chores, such as long hours 
of routine physical examinations of infants on Merelava and endless hema- 
tologic examinations he has stuck it out marvelously and performed excell- 
ently. In his dedication to photography and to roentgenology he has been 
totally indispensible. He and only he mastered our camera and X-ray 
developing on board, and he mastered the X-ray techniques from beginning 
to end. He has alone taken with the Buckeye the 500 or so X-rays films 
we have taken on the trip, and at times performed heroically when we loaded 
40 or more onto the Alpha Helix in rough seas for X-rays when he was with- 
out sufficient assistance for all the tasks of numbering, coding, sorting 
of the patients and handling of the films and cassettes. On top of all 
this he has managed to rush and take EKGs and blood studies at times when 
