40 1963 Journal 7 Aug. powder diet freeze type to start. The large experiment will run 30 days ending Sept. 7. Keith Van Cleve arrived today. Overcast day with almost constant drizzle, Wind increase late at night but always from west. Never was very cold. Wrote notes after dinner and worked on the color data sheets. 8 Aug. Barrow, Alaska Hollander and I processed the regular data until 0930 when I left to pick up Hank at the live plot. after return, we set up the metabolic cages to run the last experiment with the special powder diet. After lunch I helped Dave process blood sugars until dinner time. Dick returned before lunch to tell Hank about a seal on the tundra, 20 yards from Ukpiik Slough, and a 1/4 mile from the ocean. They left to collect the animal returned with it about 1430. Clean sunny day with a light breeze from the west. 9 Aug. Barrow, Alaska Vessel colony work was not done. The Schulty special diet experiment involving 32 animals was set up and the rest of the animals given food [illegible] (lab chow) ad libitum. The powder will be given in a paste form It will be weighed dry and then dried the next day, if it is not dry already, and then weighed again. Cold wind plus some occasional snow flurries are present. About 1400, Hank asked me to go to Wainwright to set