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physician, since each Alpha Helix expedition requires that one of the team fill 
this function. He is best qualified for this task, having had extensive 
experience in the South Pacific on ship and on shore. He will also, on shore 
medical studies, be my first assistant, and Joe Gibbs will be in charge of 
laboratory studies. 
Thank you for your patience. 
I am storm-bound here at Awande, and I must drive over 100 miles of rough 
roads — mostly in 4-wheel drive — to meet Joe in Goroka, to where he returns after 
a brief few days of conference with Vin Zigas in Rabaul. We will have two days 
of further work together and then he is homeward bound. He was in excellent 
health while here in fact better than he has been in back home or in Europe 
for several years!!! I hope he returns well. Thank you and Ed MacNichol for 
all your support and encouragement. 
Sincerely, 
Carleton 
