August 30, 1966 
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Mr. Brian Harrington 
French Frigate Shoals 
Dear Brians 
It’s nice to receive your cheery letters reporting all is going 
fine, although with a failing motor, threatening storm and lost 
camera, it doesn’t sound so auspicious. 
I surely hope you’ve found the camera. If not, we can discuss the 
situation thoroughly on your return? but I don’t think we’ll make any 
formal claim or report to the Coast Guard, because it’s of far less 
value than the services they've provided for us. But if we feel 
strongly that it was removed from our gear there, and particularly if 
there was any sign of disturbance to our gear, then I may make a verbal 
off-tie-record report to the Coast Guard here. We must avoid any possi¬ 
bility of this incident upsetting our fine relation® with the Coast 
Guard. 
The Coast Guard vessel with Kridler’ s party is scheduled to be at 
FFS September 11 to 15. It’s a full party of 5> including a newspaper 
photographer, and unfortunately we couldn’t get space for you. However, 
if the ship holds to this schedule, I would like you to stay there until 
the 15th. There's always a slim chance that one of the group may want 
to leave at FFS because of seasickness or other emergency, and you 
might get aboard in his place. There isn't anything special for you 
to do here, and something interesting in shorebirds might turn up any 
day. Doug suggests that you be sure to check the runway, as some 
interesting shorebirds have been collected there. 
Doug says he sent an inventory list marked to Indicate items to be 
brought back, or stored there. He wanted to remind you to taring back 
the Berlese funnels, the motor mount, the poorest raft for repair here, 
and all valuable non-expendable items of general usability? such as 
camera, binocular® and gun. 
SIC lU returned Friday reporting a pretty successful trip. Roger Clapp 
got a lot of island work done, and the new pattern for covering the 
southern grid worked out well. Rick Chandler set a new banding record 
of 6,000 adult Sooty Terns in less than 12 hours, using pliers drilled 
to fit size 3 bands. This was so successful that we're going to have 
