Bee. 29, 1935—Conan and Kinkajou revisited Jarvis and took Chadwick 
and Suare3 off island—Coman actually interested in guanoft Left sign 
JARVIS ISLAND—PHOSPHATES INCLUDING GUANO DEPOSITS ON THIS ISLAND 
DISCOVERED 1935 BY COMAN OCEANOGRAPHIC EXPEDITION AND APPLICATION FOR 
LEASE FILED WITH UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT—Coxnan took 300 sample 
cultures of guano from Jarvis 
Daily Log Jarvis Island—Sept 15, 1935 to Jan 14, 1936 
See Sept 27: (Fairy Tern, Blue-gray Noddy—captured) 
See Oct 22: (Collected 14 booby eggs (ten good) and 7 day before) 
Oct 26: (Collected 14 Red-tailed Tropicbird eggs) for food 
Oct 27: (4 of 14 eggs above good ( = ? fresh) 
Oct 28: (Collected 10 Red-tailed Tropicbird eggs) for food 
Oct 29: (Collected 10 more RTTB eggs) 
(12 good of the 20) 
Nov 3: (l Booby, 1 RTTB egg, coll) 
Nov 5: ((killed over 50 mice) 
Nov 9: (Best shell hunting at southwestern end of island) 
Nov 22: (Caught young RTTB—"delicious") 
Coman arrived off Baker Nov 25, 1935—Similar sign to Jarvis—Dept. Dec. 
2, 1935 
Coman—visited Howland Nov 30, 1935, and took men off—Same sign as above 
6th expedition—Begin intensive efforts to eliminate rats. 
E. H. Bryan on 7th Cruise—Oct 1936 
Daily Lo'^ Howland—Aug 10, 1936 to Oct 26, 1936 
Aug 10: (1^4 rats killed) 
Aug 13: (18Vats K) 
Aug 14: (250 motal through 14 ) 
Aug 15: (l6 rkY 
Aug 20: (39 trapped in 2 hrs.) 
Aug 21 (147 /rt arid, k) 
Aug 22: (37/rk—Sooty terns have already laid eggs near Kou thicket) 
Aug 24: (ijl rk and 'and supper to 10:30) 
Aug 27: 9S' rk and t) \ 
Aug 29: (84 rt and k) \ 
Sept 8: (Si rt and k) \ 
Sept 10 i (72 raijs in 2 hrb3 
Sept 12: (33 rats) 
Sept 21: (73 rats) 
Oct 6: 9 rats clubbed 
Oct 10: 29 rats clubbed 
