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and then Dr. Fisher returned from Kure as did Ken Amerman, Fisher 
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brought us a dead seal. It died after he caught it. After dinner uith 
headlights Ken and I skinned and roughly autopsied it. We saved skin 
(frozen and salted), poctial skeleton, a sample of the stomach and 
intestinal worms, and both kidneys (in 10 °/o Formalin.). About 1230 
we crawled in to bed, slightly adoriferous and very tired. Notet: the 
Helminth worm populations seemed to be similsrrto 20156. Cause of 
death also - crushed pleural cavity, raptured stomach. 
December 12 --In A. M. we finished with the seal. Froze the skin and 
salted it, and put the skeleton in a cage in the Casurina T s by the overrun 
ponds. Also spoke with Burke. Herb to return December 17 and his 
eyes are A OK which is very good news. In the P.M. we collected insects 
on Sand Island and after catching up on paper work and accumulated menial 
tasks we retired t'oethe 0 Club for Happy hour. 
December 15 --Today was a bit hectic. Rained until 10 A.M. and after a 
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minor foul-up in Kens orders was straightened out we worked up the fifty 
or so skeletons Ken brought from Kure. Most all of the dumestids were 
dead. I believe that the cold weather prevents them from doing well. 
In the P.M. we spent several hours at the Photo Lab having pictures 
made up,copies of which Ken took with him. Ran in to Riddle and 
found out about the Freezer Chests so went and got the seal skin and sent 
it on with Ken. Put Ken on the LOG flight in a heady drizzle (Fisher, 
Pettingill and CO went today also).and after dinner began outlining the 
final report for Midway and wrote Christmas cards. 
