Hoeman, J. V. 1964--Aleutians 4 Finally the Fisheries Research Inst., but we don't get much help from them. We separate in midafternoon, I wandering through the university and bookstore wasting time till 1800 when I meet Francis Randall at Lun Ting and treat her to dinner. She asks lots of questions about McKinley and I show her where the lichens at 18,600 are. She to work and I bus home to the Olympic where I read and dream from Americans on Everest. Thursday, June 4, 1964 Raining, but I can hardly imagine Seattle without rain. We limousine to airport and fly Pan Am jet over clouds to Juneau with a 20 minute stop on Annette Island where we were able to get off plane--see raven and swallow. At Juneau I really feel I'm back in Alaska as we bus to town. Trashy, different-looking buildings, clean beautiful forested mountains, arctic terns, fish crows, cement streets in town. Coastal Alaska Ellis Airways Frame bldg. by water. Lots of medium and small sized hotels Baranof, Northland, Home, etc. We take Castanean about 2nd in size and have room 460 on top floor served by rickety old Am. Elev. Co. elevator. A big new Federal Bldg. is just going up--just steel girders so far. The capitol is old brick bldg. up on hill on 4th St. with a green-painted frame columned bldg. next door west that looks most imposing--may have been territorial capitol. Having arrived at just before 1100 we didn't locate our bldgs. to noon so we had an hour to waste and walked up the gravel Basin Road to turn off to big abandoned mine seeing Wilson's and yellow warb., hearing ruby- crowned kinglets and varied thrushes--see lots of robins and a swainson's thrush. Talk to Jim Brooks of state F and G when we get back and Ray Wilfred U.S. who is very helpful and offers us car for morning. They all