Alaska field journal and species accounts, v4466
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93. 1963 Journal 11 Aug. Gleen Stanley, Dil Chellet and a few other bondaglers. Overcast day starting out cold (34°) and becoming warmer (40+) in the later afternoon. All the colony work was finished by 1530 which gave up part of a Sunday afternoon free. Wrote notes after dinner. 12 Aug. Barrow, Alaska We developed a good effective system for handling the special diet and weighing the animals. Most animals are holding their own weights while an equal number have either increased or decreased. Two have died from the same group. Overcast weather but warm (40°) with practically no wind. The metabolic animals are showing signs of physical weakness, one to hemorrhaging from the anus. We finished day 1430, in time for me to help Logston at lines I, II and IX,X, a dense fog is settling in. By 2100 a heavy fog had drifted in. Hank Childs was supposed to return from Wainwright but couldn't be picked up. Dr. P. Hurd arrived today. 13 Aug. Barrow, Alaska Hollenbeck worked in the colony until 1600. Three of the metabolic animals died and we needed to transfer some of the animals from the large special diet experiment to the metabolic cages. Since these are already adapted to the powder, they may be able to overcome the sudden change to their metabolic cages. Max Buttner arrived today.