I believe we have a pretty good set up since Oarl and Hvaturn 
will be on the "Dorothy", Roy and Marvin v/allace on the "Champion", 
and Slaughter, Alexander, and Fat on the "Locks". 
7/e have not heard anything about the calipers so there is 
only one pair between the "Champion" and the "Dorothy". This is 
going to cause some limitation. We revised Form S according to 
your suggestion. I took the liberty of having copies made of the 
content of most of Page 2 and 3 of your letter of February 18 and 
added this material to the instructions of the biologists. The 
photographs and descriptions you. prepared for tagging were also 
received in time and put aboard the boats for the biologists. 
I am sorry that your South American trip petered out. The 
"Penguin" will be going north some time in April so if you could 
get away, we would be able to get you to Bering Sea so that you 
could participate in this part of the investigation if you would 
care to do so. 
Right at the moment I feel quite discouraged because the legal 
experts of the Sex^vice hold that we would jeopardize our position 
in cancelling the charter on the "Tondeleyo" at the end of the 
consent agreement period if we should ask to have the appropriation 
extended into the next fiscal year to take care of accrued leave 
due the employes. This means that we are going to have to bring 
the boats back to Seattle quite early in June and will probably 
have to ship Pat and Scrivner back some way during II ay# When I 
stop to think of all the obstacles that have arisen to hinder 
any specific accomplishment from the study, I sometimes wonder 
how I have escaped becoming a case for an institution for the 
mentally unbalanced. 
tie had 3,000 numbered tags made and these are to be used 
for the tagging studies. Art Hvaturn reports that he is having 
quite good success in painting the carapaces as a means of 
identification, so I hope the boys will be able to satisfactorily 
mark all of their catch. 
Thanks for the letter from Mr. Brazas. Jake Kruger told us 
about Monte Bay and the "Dorothy" is probably working in the 
Yakut at area right now. 
> 
The reason my recent letters have been typed by Virginia 
is because Amina has been buried under vouchers and other office 
detail. I am afraid that we will lose Virginia shortly because 
she has been offered a position in Washington, D. C. in defense 
industries. 
At the first opportunity I hope to write you a personal 
letter and thank you for your remembrances sent to myself and 
family. With kind personal regards, I am. 
Sincerely yours, 
: vh 
B. W. Harrison. 
Technologist in Charge. 
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