Our experience with the tubes that were received packed loosely has not been 
very go-d, There w -°s considerable breakage in shipment. Also the ones that 
are received loose must be rebundled in order to get them to shore safely. We 
J /'' v r fc !? nd that the ones Packed by the dozen are by far the most convenient 
to handle on ATF's where time is always at a premium. We have enough to do 
now without having to repackage and count the centrifuge tubes for each island. 
We got slightly short changed on a number of items bv the Marshalls grout) 
even after taking sreat rains to mark all of the inventories clearly as to 
what items were essential to the ATF. In the last frantic hours before de¬ 
parture we had to rely uron the Marshall's people to sort our gear out and 
send along what we needed. Thev didn’t do such a red hot job and*we're not 
too terribly pleased: about it. 
Enclosed is a listing of supplies that should be ordered for the Jan-Mar 
• Please oroer them asap and then have Pay or whoever is available send 
them to Pearl Harbor by Air Freight. The sooner that .iunk gets out here the 
happier I'll be. I don't ever want to have to get involved like the fouled up 
mess that existed before this trip started off. For the past two trips now 
I’ve gone out to Honolulu to organize gear and repack it before the trip started 
and each time we had to doit on the ship while underway which is always a 
wearisome task. I hope this can be avoided by sending the bulk of eauipment out 
quite early* 
As you must knoitf by now the ship demanded a certain type of Navigation 
lignt and got it* Tne lights require a little bit of extra messing around 
as well as daily boat runs but are doing the job better than any that have been 
tried in the oast* We have not even used the small (red) lanterns that were 
purchased in PC and probably won’t have any use for them in the future* Chances 
are we’ll give them and the batteries to the ship at the end of this trip if 
everything -oeF well. At anyrate, we won't need anymore ignition batteries. 
^While in Samoa we had to oorrow 80 yards of cheesecloth from Neal Spencer, 
the^island mat entvmologist, Cheesecloth, like most everything else, just isn’t 
available in Pago Pago so Neal came to our rescue again. Without this cheesecloth 
we probably would have lost about k barrels of fish specimens not to mention 
the stuff we collect on the second half. We promised him that you would promptly 
re-lace this with an equal amount - using normal channels he can’t get any before 
two or three months. Would appreciate it if you would send him about 80-100 yds 
ne r future. Neal is a lot of help to us when we are here. He spent the 
better part of one morning running around with me so I could get the cheesecloth 
and some formaldehyde (which we also have run out of.) 
Fred wants to know if the small and medium sized plastic bags can be 
obtained in a slightly heavier gauge. The ones we have hold enough but just 
twn’t stand up to fish fins and other abrasive elements. If they come in the 
same thickness as the large plastic bags (which we sort of doubt) Fred would 
like you to order some. 
The following list (which more or less parallels the one I gave you) is 
roughly what we will need for a Jan-Mar ATF; 
Item 
Three man tent 
u Cots 
v^A’lashlight batteries 
^Headlamps 
Quantity From 
2 ATLAS 
5 (order special) ATLAS 
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