out what was not salvageable. McFarlene, Sibley, and Wlrtst then went 
into the Bass and talked with Lt. Me Daniels and Lt. Wheeler who is 
security officer for the bass, The former advised that MATS had not yet 
approved the bird shipment but it was out of -how hands and being bounced 
beck and forth between EESEBBT and HA WE AFP CM. He also obtained a weather 
prognosis for us for the coming week, the weather Pearl end Hermes corect- 
tlon the area around Pearl end Hermes is due for seas from 9 to 22* with 
winds of 25 to 30 nawa and gust to 55. It does not look good for us. 
Wfl hope to be able to fly over areas a couple of tijes in the coming 
week. And perhaps send a group to Curry next weekend for a while. In 
the mend tine we begin obtaining the required blood samples and get 
eought up on our field notes and skimming. Lt. Wheeler advised us as 
to what areas of the island were off limits to us, and that must report 
all night time activity to the shore patrol before going out. He also 
advised that know-guns were permited on the island and that there 
wes to be a large scale operation there this coming week, which would 
peeventps from going on a portion of the island, were the Albatross 
were most common ‘til next Friday. 
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We spent this day cleaning up equipment, preparing speoimene, and 
getting materials ready for blood samples. This evening the party 
collected 22 Bonin Petrels and was able to obtain 19 blood samples from 
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the aggregate. 
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