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Jure, January 20 
p. 2. 
You may be interested in the new seal capturing device that Dennis 
thought up. We use the old seal weighing sling and throw it over the 
seal to be tagged. There are many advantages to this method, not the 
least of which is the speed with which we can tag. In a roadcut to the 
runway from east beach we tagged 4 seals in 15 minutes. The seals do 
not see their captured partners, and as the taggers are lying down on 
the canvas sling to hold the pinned seal iji place, other seals in the 
area remain. I think we must now hold a Record for seals tagged - 20 in 
2 hr. 5 min. We would have had more, but we temporarily ran out of tag s, 
so we returned tfc the station for chow - it rained after lunoh that day 
or w« could have easily doubled that number. Many of the seals have 
probably thrown old tags - on two occasions the old tag hole was clearly 
visible. 
I have tried to get a figure for total birds banded in 1964, but 
find it nigh on impossible. The totals given in the Bi-weekly report 
are off by a factor of 2,000 bands. A large source of this ertfr is 
found in the Jly 1-15 report. On Jime 39 the total bands used was 
given as 6570 ( but Bbb's tabular total was 6330)* the next report, 
after banding 133 birds, gives a 1964 toal as 4300, a drop of well over 
2,000bands. Probably the best place to figure this out is the schedules 
in DC. At any rate, you should know that the totals given from 
July 15 through the rest of 1964 are consistently 2,000 bands short of 
the actual numbers used, as all subsequent reports used the July 15 totals 
as the base upon which new banding totals were added. 
From ir.y stand point of staying on Kure through February I don't care 
wh&t goes or. anymore. I 'enow that in the future I will begoing home 
for a change of see 'ery, when I go does not make t..at much differe oe. 
If I don/t work 11 day and night I am very d .scontint and wan .er around 
with t.iat far away look. As far as the wore ..era it gets done and I 
feel that I am rtill working at least at 9' percent effiecer v . I want 
to go home nut I .ve wanted to do * .at sir.c^ I went to that nole called 
Johnston Island* As far as T am concerned do what ner is best for Kure 
and tue researen iere f I would rather s Lay than 1 et someone bo station 3d 
here that could not do a good job and does not know w.iat is going on* 
I know A hat both of you are prob->rly tired of coneig to this island and 
I can stay without too much a''-pleasantness# Do what ev’er you want add 
suits the vrit•n * in D* 
The world sacks. 
Cam and Stick 
