(Tape #2) 
Eugene Kridler to Roger Clapp January 1970 P-3 
of some pest insect, and, of course, the possibility of predatory animals such 
as the rats or mice. I think also as far as hazards of landing on the island, 
the rocky islands like Rihoa and Eecker and Gardner Pinnacles especially, could 
all have some mention made in the account of the extreme hazards involved and 
there have been times especially during the winter and spring months, when land¬ 
ings on the flatter islands like Laysan, Lisianski and Pearl and Hermes Reef, 
have also been hazardous and in several instances landings were postponed or 
eliminated entirely because of dangerous surf conditions. I believe that you 
are a member of the party there on Pearl and Hermes Reef in March 1965 , that 
experienced quite a bit of difficulty in coming out of Pearl and Hermes Reef 
because of storms. 
On your chronology of Necker Island, for the 1960 's, I have entered in 
the data for the last three trips as well as the information regarding the 
Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations establishing the island as a 
refuge as well as the authorities for them. This should also be included right 
at the beginning on the history or at least a general discussion or summary of 
Necker Island. The first of course is back there in February 3> 19°9? Presidential 
Executive Order 1019 by President Theodore Roosevelt establishing the Hawaiian 
Islands Reservation and Necker being included with it as one of the islands. 
They placed it under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture. Then 
in 19^0 President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Presidential Proclamation No. 2k l 6 
changed the name of the Refuge to^the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge. 
This order by the way is dated July 25, 19^0. Jurisdiction was with the Department 
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of Interior, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and it was about/l955 and the reorganization 
of the Fish and Wildlife created two bureaus, the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and 
the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife which now has the jurisdiction. I think 
that on your third page on the History of Necker, after your second paragraph, 
you might wish to quote Emery (sp?) on page 122, Bulletin 53? or at least that 
