SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
WASHINGTON 25, D. C. 
23 September 1964 
Oh Star of the East (about 6000 miles) 
Enclosed find some worthless information I’ve put 
together on the rat project in case anyone cares for the 
October report, T sent a carbon to Chuck, and likewise 
find enclosed a carbon of the letter I sent to him with 
the carbon of the report. Confused yet? If the tables 
are to be used they would be better as graphs, and I f ve 
indicated my ideas as to the type of graph for each table. 
Nancy can take my data and adapt it to the format I f ve 
suggested for each graph. I’ve also enclosed a page of 
corrections I've noted in the rough draft I made of the 
Kure report before I left in July. I imagine that this 
report has already been rewritten so they may not apply. 
I am wondering about the personnel schedule for the 
rest of the ear and January, as you can gather from the 
letter to Chuck. Perhaps you can square me away on this. 
I’d like best to stay out here till the end of November 
and come back in February, but I need someone here to 
handle the rat-trapping in January if I'm not. Fleet is 
the only other person who knows how to do it, unless he 
or I teach someone else this fall. If I have to come 
back in January to do the trapping then I should come 
off the end of October instead of the end of November. 
Take the ball from there, dear. 
I'm still waiting for my last order of supplies, but 
I know 6000 'miles is a long way. I'm just about out of 
mist nets; I would like to get at least some more as soon 
as possible to we can band some more shorebirds. 
Would you please Xerox up some copies of the attached 
sheet and distribute them to project members to be filled 
out and returned to me. This is a sort of psychological 
test; you are to draw in, in each block, whatever comes 
to your mind, as much or as little as you want, or no¬ 
thing at all if you like. I'll explain the significance 
of each square at whatever sort of Christmas shindig we 
throw,, and you can have your own back to rate yourself. 
The Christmas shindig to be at my pad, yeah, yeah, yeah. 
Naturally people mil have to sign the test sheets so I 
can return them. 
