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Again, please let me know via my office provisional dates for the Solomon 
Island-New Hebrides work. Specifically, can you manage to get us also to the 
northern New Hebrides Islands as well or not? Also, is this approval for the 
"pinch-hitting" 1971 proposal I was asked to provide for which I listed these 
Western Caroline Islands and/or the Southern Solomons-New Hebrides Islands? 
Or does it apply to the 1972 proposal for which the eastern remote Islands 
of Indonesia was our first choice? 
Here in the Western Caroline Islands I am again, as ususal, restricted to 
work on the Island where we have an airstrip, for the remoter Islands of Fals 
and Satawal and Ifaluk where we also work we can only visit for one day or two 
days with the field trips (once every 2 months) or remain there for 2 months, 
in both cases without facilities of laboratory on hand for much of the virus 
work we would do. If you can ever let us have the use of the ship for a few 
weeks it will be of vast assistance in getting things done which in a decade we 
have been unable to accomplish and which again, this time here, I will not get 
done. 
Finally, and as a preliminary request, I can already list as most urgent of 
all the provision of ample refregeratlon and freezing capacity in the ship or 
laboratory. Thus we really do need a -70®C REVCO-type freezer, or a 
well-supplied liquid nitrogen or dry ice source. Liquid nitrogen tank plus 
small carriers and reservoirs (which my laboratory can provide) would be 
Important to have, but ample 4®C (or approx, that) refrigerator space for many 
things including blood, urine, cell specimens is essential as is FREEZER space. 
Temperatures of -20®C can serve, but -70®C (dry ice or REVCO-type box) is ideal 
for virus work. Liquid nitrogen can cover this phase if the low temp, electric 
box is not available, but the luxury of having both is great. 
Also, Anuta and other Islands often lack suitable anchorage, and the 
problem of getting from ship to shore may be great. Adequate shuttle for both 
staff and equipment and Islanders is Important. When possible, we can do most 
medical work on shore, but specimen processing will be on ship, and some test 
might be only done on ship. If x-ray and other equipment of this sort is 
finally decided upon, this will demand bringing subjects to the ship. 
I look forward to hearing from you soon, and if other mail is already en 
route to me, I am sure my office will have it to me on Guam when I return there 
next week en route to New Guinea. 
Sincerely, 
D. Carle ton Gajdusek, M.D 
