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Hoeman, Vincent D. 
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MarchJL— Grit , Warren and I go to top again and talk to University of 
Hawaii botanist Charles Lamoureux on crater rlra about the tobacco and 
he points out a native plant (natives unrecorded by Richardson 
and Fisher 1950). He collected specimens. Says some tobacco in 
stomachs of some of thirteen rabbits they shot, though it’s supposedly 
poisonous . 
•ooat comes for us and we really get vet swimming to it with our 
gear. Warren pays $15 vixen we get back. We see Brazilian cardinal 35’ 
up nest in ^0' tree there by parking lot at Kaioua Beach. 
Mpjrefe. 2? — Raining today and when it's still that way this afternoon I am 
forced to agree with tie others that we can’t go to an offshore island 
cm the windward aide today so Chinaman's hat still unvisited. Letter from 
Davis - he hasn't security clearance and looks like he won't so he’s 
resigning 3 April. 
About 0900 this morning, I drove out to Koko Head and climbed it 
and the hill of the small crater east of it and came back along Hanauma 
Bay where a dozen was breacking the reef for a boat passage. Si 00 k a rat 
from tree nest. 
This eve Bob suggested we go see "Mad Mad World" at Cinema on 
King Avenue. Funny flock - at intermission manager announced tidal wave 
alert for North Shore residents, but I didn’t think much about it till 
we passed a TV set returning to car about 2200. There I was shocked to 
learn epl-center of a large quake at 1736 hours was near enough 
Anchorage that my home city was wrecked. We were told we couldn't go hose 
’cause Waikiki was being evacuated for tidal wave and police cordons 
enforced it. Eventually we wound up at Koko Head but by then we’d heard 
