problem strings. The thing that really burned me about the records for the trip was 
the condition in which they brought back their recoveries. When there were bands there 
was no data in the books to support them. When there was data in the books there was 
(usually) no band to be found. I still have about 15 of the recoveries from this trip 
and have ncrreached the point in checking where it looks like nothing can be done about 
them. 
Generally, th$ records coming in are in pretty fair shape. I had to search for 
several days before finding any mistakes on the ones Crossin brought back from the 
Leewards .....but I found several by being a Nit-picker. 
All of these records that are now on hand will be sent out to you via Registered 
Mail within the next day or two. These include everything up through Binion * s French 
Frigate Shoals records and all island stations through the 30th of June. 
/ Let me know about the misadventured of 652—27001 and colleagues if vou learn any 
more about them. 
A while back I turned in a Bulwer's Petrel band from Manana Island that was badly 
worn (an old Biological Survey Band). When something comes back to the office from the 
F&W office could I please get an# info on it? I'm curious as to who banded it and when. 
Manj( thanks for the prompt action on the gear shipment. Things seem to be going 
pretty well out here right now. Chuck and Jan departed yesterday (on different planes) 
after standing around on space available for a few hours. Dick Merrill is doing a great 
job in the warehouse (he has everything put away neatly and I can't find a thing.) For 
the first time since coming out here last 2 June I have been able to sit down and sink 
my teeth into the great piles of back-log paperwork. I am now working on the up-dating 
of the inventory and sypplu listings which I just never seemed to have tax time to 
work on before. This should be finished up and in the mail to you within a week's 
time. I'm also busily extracting data from the little green books and putting it on 
big log forms for possible use when they get around to putting things on an ADP system. 
Thusfar, I have about 1500 Blue-faced Boobies logged up and am starting to make some 
dents on the great piles of memo books that are stacked here and there. As soon as 
I finish with the memo books I'll bundle them up and send them all back to D.C. for 
filing. In the near future I would like to have all of the rest of the memo books 
in D.C. sent out here to be worked over. After that books will be run through shortly 
after a trip arrives and then will be sent directly to D.C. for future reference. 
Withrin the next several weeks I'll also have a pack of sheets to be xeroxed for 
the species itatax listings. I'm now about 180,000 bands behind on the listing. As 
S °3 1 3S ^ ese are I'll send them to you so that they can be back and issued 
forjthe next SIC trip. I don't want to get too far behind on the listings or we'll 
be back where we started with tons of unfinished returns coming in off of each trip. 
Hope everything is going well back in D.C. and that the heat isn't bothering you 
too much. It is a steady 83-86 degrees out here day in day out. They use the exact 
same weather forecast for weeks at a time out here without hardly changing a word. 
Regards, 
