Honolulu 
August 31, 1963 
Dear Maryanna, 
Several things have come up which could possibly prove 
to be of great advantage to the Project, However, let me first 
clear up a few of the odds and ends here. 
Please tell Bill Wirtz that I have all of the equipment 
out of storage that he wanted except the can of ethyl ether. I thought 
that the ether was too dangerous to be transported in an unpressurized 
plane, and I am going to attempt to get some chloroform instead. If 
Bill has special need of the ether, it would be easiest to bring 
it with him when coming out, I have all of the materials in the 
extra duffle, and there is plenty of room available in the trunks 
now so that others who want things stored here will be able to 
use the trunks here for shipping. I have examined and calibrated 
the telethermometer, and all probes check to an accuracy of .4 
of a degree C, 
The orders are still confused, I called ATCO Saturday AM 
and found out nothing. You might warn the other guys that Pier 39 is 
run by civilians who don’^t work on weekends or holidays, and that 
the several army officers there are quite useless, Aparently I am 
going to have to wait until Tuesday to book a plane flight out, and 
unless I can get the Radar Picket Plane to run me out. It may be 
Friday before I get out to Midway: God only knows what ministerial 
irresponsibility awaits me there, 
Binion passed through here Friday and Saturday, and was 
full of goodies for you to patiently listen too. He has some very 
appropriate suggestions, 
I called my personal friend Senator Toshi Ansai from 
Maui on arriving here and was greeted by all sorts of enthusiasm, 
Toshi and family have been friends for many years, and as soon as 
he found out that I was here on some sort of a bird project he offered 
to place at my disposal the Wildlife Biologists from each of the 
main islands for several days on my return to Honolulu in December. 
Toshi has suggested that I spend several days on each of the islands 
to look carefully at the birds there in the company of these trained m 
who know their respective islands well to see if we can gather any 
valuable information. From what little experience I had looking 
at the literature before coming out here, this seems like an very 
excellent suggestion. I have found out through various sources of 
infoinnation that Kauai has Geey-backed Noddies, Boobies, and 
Tropic-birds nesting on it. The Waimea Canyon, which reaches a depTV 
of over 3,000 feet apparently has an abundance of the White-tailed 
Tropic-birds nesting in sheer sides of this canyon. The Blue-Grey 
Noodles apparently nest abundantly on the North-East tip of the 
Island, and from the pictures of A Botanist which visited the 
Island two years ago I found that there were large colonies of 
boobies thare. Clearly, I think that this should be investigated 
especially in view of the fact that the YAG surveys turn up many 
of these species which apparently nest in the main Islands and not 
the leewards. What I would like to request is permission from the 
