24 February 1963 
Today was spent collecting birds bor blood samples pnd working 
on bird skins. Fred went out to the Send Islands in the mouth of the 
habor end was able to collect another immature gull. The weather was 
very windy end rainy all day and we were not able to do much out side. 
The afternoon we got our gear reedy to take ashore at Pearl and Hermes 
and collected more birds for blood samples. The evening was spent 
preparing the bloood samples and the bird specimens, 
25 February 1963 
The weather w<-s much better today end we have high hopes of 
getting on Pearl pnd Hermes tomorrow. The waterproof begs arrived 
from Pearl Habor and we wer able to get all of our gear packed to go 
ashore We spent the rest of the dey finishing up our business at Midway. 
Preparing the rest of the bird specimens and stralghting up our gear 
in the hold of the ship, preperitory to getting under way tomorrow. 
2 <o February 1963 
We arrived at Pearl and Heme? Reef about 0630 this morning, 
by 0900 the first boat was Pinion, Bob, and I aboard made shore. The 
southeast landing was very good today, as the wind was from the north 
and the sea was calm. There is a low flat level of rock judding out 
about 20yds. ?t the boat landing, and as the tide was out it was almots 
exposed. This ledge necessitates getting out o r the boat about 20yds. 
from.shore. And running the boat into the beach by hand through water, 
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because the botton drops off sharply the reef. The ship was able to 
anchor much closer to the landing then it had been able to doat Leyean 
and Lisianski. 
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