September 14, l$£k 
Hr, Charles R. Long 
/o Dr. Robert Lamoureux 
Department of Botany 
University of Hawaii 
Honolulu, Hawaii 
Dear Boh: 
Long time no see or hear. Sorry that Larry and Peter 
didn’t get out to Wake to check out the boobies of that area. When 
is your repeat coming through on the last trip so 1 can see what 
you've been doing? 
Life continues to become acre and mere frantic as trip time 
approaches. The AOU meetings were a nice break in the rush but 
only increased the pressure upon return* 
AsheoLe had sob® very interesting contaents on the Sooty 
Terns and Bill Robertson gave me a number of useful suggestions 
for our work. Guess you saw (helped write?) the tribute to the 
Pacific Project in the Anklet. Someone did an excellent job 
althoujgi he overlooked many recent changes which would sake good 
material for the journal. 
In pulling together date for the final write-up, I realized 
that we have a shortage of photos from the first trip. Banko is 
now having 8 by 10 prints made from 55 ma color slides in order 
to fill in this gap. Could I persuade you to send seme of your 
slides from the first trip? Particularly Howland and Baker, but 
we would also be interested In the Leeward shots. The arrangement 
so far has been to sake two prints and send esse to whoever took 
the original Shot. If you want a series of beautiful black and 
white shots suitable for framing, trading car sending as Christmas 
presents just write the Bsateo reproductive works and send your 
slides along. Seriously though, the prints have been cooing out 
very well and so far no slides have been damaged in any way. 
All the work, of_c_ourse, is being sent out so you don* t have to worry 
about the S.I. handling. 
He have finally'"girtten’Isold of aerial photos, etc* for the 
period 19bl~k5 and can trace a number of vegetation changes since 
this period on the areas which were cleared. 
Regards, 
Fred C, Sfblev. Research Curator 
