Hr, Philip S. Humphrey 
Jkly 2, 19$+ 
p.2 
Both men will 
in October, 
can get off St. 
of the single supply 
return to Washington in late September or 
on St. Lawrence will depend on when they 
being no air transport and the schedule 
being uncertain. 
Wc were invited to 
or two on one or more 
carried out in the Berth Pacific and 
You will note correspondence to that 
be made until after you get back, if at 
reports from our contact at the BCF 
of birds at sea in the 
lent ionable due to flH 
quality does not appear to equal the 
Honolulu on Central Pacific sightings. 
Br. ®y anyway so he can 
observers this*, they are 
‘ r am ~ 
on a 
Hi b ut no 
all. We 
in 
an observer 
as 
around 
will need to 
I am going 
of the data 
fact the overall 
BCF Lab in 
it along to 
species the BCF 
Incidentally, the physical oceanography of the subsrctic Pacific 
has recently been reviewed and published on bu the International Borth 
Pacific Fisheries Commission (1965) and we obtained a copy from 
F, Favorite, BCF Biological Laboratory, Seattle, one of the three authors. 
Shis is *n excellent roundup, full of meaningful charts, saps# and 
rather than hard to digest tables of data. Text is short (28 pages) aid 
to the point. Several pages of bibliography are included. ItHHH 
contain anything on biological productivity however, worse luck, 
All in all the trip went very well. We were extremely fortunate in 
g as many contacts at home base as we did, seeing nearly everyone 
we hoped to plus some unexpectedly good Interceptions of people enroufce to 
various places. Best of all, I think, was the pledge by S. 1 . Hutchinson, 
Regional Director BCF in Seattle, that he would know the ^ SI- Deuartment of 
Interior agreement "os if it was directed at his Bureai 
that I knew all the key people on his staff well, some 
Sam himself) from the days. BCF and BOT were the amm WBPH jBH HIHHH 
all the BSFW people we met pledged cooperation to the fullest. I personally 
felt a bit "let down" that we could not tackle part of the work with the 
help of the BSFW people in the Refuge Branch who manage a master of the 
key waterfowl areas in Alaska. But since we couldn't seem to develop any 
promising leads, and exploratory surveys would be laboriously slow, Vin 
and I decided on the Pribilof-St. Irswrenee Islands study for this summer 
and fall. Max seems well pleased at the 
