December 28 , 1964 
Dear Warren: 
In the same mail with your request for more copies of more reports, I 
received the December At-Sea report which I am enclosing. Some time ago 
Dr. Ely told me you wanted copies of the October and November At-Sea reports 
but to date these have not been turned in to this office. 
I would like to suggest that you read the progress reports frees other 
areas which are on file in the Honolulu office. Because of the nature of 
the project, the policy on report distribution is to keep it as limited as 
possible and still have information available to as many project members as 
possible. 
I have requested permission from Salt Lake to disseminate the recently- 
prepared Annual Report, Sand Island Report and Addendum, At Sea Report w/ 
Addendum and Rat Ecology paper. To date I have not received tills permission 
and all copies must be retained in Washington, I think Dr. Ely has one copy 
of each assigned to him on a temporary basis which you can read. 
As for tiie Droppings, I would be delighted if you and any one alse would 
send in some news. The original idea was to pass on information and each 
area was to contribute something to D.C, or send around some notes on their 
own. This hasn’t worked too well, so I have taken the progress reports and 
aisc. information received in this office each week and put what seemed of 
importance in the Droppings. More often than not lately I have turned this 
job over to a field man. Most of them feel that there isn’t that much new 
