August i6 5 1966 
Max Thompson and Bob DeLong 
St. George, Alaska 
Dear Heroes: 
How is the cold and frozen northland? 
what we've had here for most of the summer 
snow flies. 
It is bound to be better than 
so don't complain even when the 
Delighted to hear about your Johnston Atoll tumstone - I was talking 
to John Bushman today about something else and told him - told Drs. Ely 
and Humphrey - told the WORLD*. Glad you have to work so late at night 
since you are getting so many birds’. !I 
We sent the camouflage netting off to you the day we heard you neeeded 
it (that is what is known as a long need!). Recovery forms have been sent. 
Incidently, don't put birds which die on St. George and have previously 
been banded on St. George on recovery forms unless you only have an odd 
one or two - we are starting a system of reporting these birds on long 
faheets or some sort of new way, anyway. This may not be practical for 
you anyway but if you should have several just list them on a sheet of 
paper and send them in. 
Max - your name looks good in the IOC programI I gather that the talks 
all went off well and that our people all had excellent results from their 
museum work in London. It’s gooddto have them back here though. 
I think that Jan and Chuck both liked their presents from the Project 
- they are really very good-looking and I should think that anyone would be 
glad to have either of them! We also had the gag tie and blouse with orange 
(and other-colored) streamers on it for them - they thought that that was 
all they would be receiving and were astonished after dinner to get the real 
things! We’ll all miss them. 
To work -I’m helping Keenan with banding returns which are alarmingly 
high*. (This means, I think, about five inches!) She has finished all the 
various illustrating jobs which she had to do and should be able to tackle 
them with vigor now. Vacations eat into time here and we never get really 
far ahead on things. 
You asked about AOU dates - September 5-9 at Duluth - don't quite think 
you’ll make it. We're having trouble getting things cleared now and only have 
two paper to be presented - one on tern migration (Chuck's) and the other on 
the Newell's Shearwater (Warren). We should be hearing from Warren again before 
too long - he's been traversing the white water which no white man has ever 
before traversed. My typewriter ribbon is tired and so am I - cheers and may 
the turnstones be so numerous that you get only as much sleep as the SIC men. 
