•28 January, 1965 
Dear Bill, 
just finished rat trapping so I will explanin what happned give 
a short summary of each -ays trapping, plus ray obeervations on tha general 
popu a non condition. We did not ! 0 the trapping last week since Cam 
and I botn had bad colds and we wanted to have Bob to help us. It 
ays of 
turned out much better since last week we would have nad two d 
rain and this week we only had to set traps in the rain once. 
Bvery thing is moving along smothly here as far as work accomplished 
and new records for the island* Ve oollected a Mus musculus on the 
island, so they put out large quanities of poisAn around the station, I 
hope that was tha only one out it is probably just a matter of time till 
they become established. I autop^ed the mouse and made a skin and filled 
out a n.reen Kc Bee card* I will not try to go into other new discoveries 
since y.-u c . reed about them in the report. 
The plane came two hows early so You will not get this letter 
until later than I had hoped. 
If Bob continues to work at the rate he is setting he will be a 
valuable asset to the station. The first two days we did not take any 
time off se if he gets any time off he will feel lucky. So far he has 
been keeping pace with me and working the same hours. He is working 
on temperature and micro-climate. 
25 Jan, 
The traps were set and checked to see that they were ija workihg 
order the night before. There was a small rain during the night and 
the vegetation was wet. It was cloudy all morning and cleared up 
partially by noon. We statted at 0730 and finished rows k and L after 
dinner, at 1430, I handled the rats and Cam recorded and Bob weighed, 
^e captuned 119 animals. ™ .9 traps we 9 not working properly so I left 
them all enen so we coul ' clean them. There '-'ere traps which were in 
working order with oat eal uniistur ed 
Bob and I reset traps while Cam worked on Booby Behavior, we 
took along puddy knives and cleaned and readjusted each trap. 
76 Jan. 
.uere was a lignt rain during the night which caused 
some 0 . 
the 
traps to not work because of sand bein v ; ’under the tredl< 3 . The morning 
was claudy and warm. We captured 124 rats last night which took us 
rom 0730 to 1115 to finish, 
27 Jan 
It was raining slightly when Bob and set the t-aps. Cam was working 
on Boobj Behavior, It was 54 degrees last nigh', and several rats were 
dead in the t-aps, but they were in bad general -ody coalition, having 
no fat and oeing weak. We sav^tf the dead marked *ats for a ;topsy, 
de captured 119 animals, ""hree different rats recovered from the cold 
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