Journal July 5, 1962, St. Barrow, Alaska; A clear day with a strong, gusty wind from the east. I checked the colony first and then after cleaning a skull of a lemming and running a gun patch through a shot gun, Mullen arrived to go blood sampling on the tundra. We started close by the first row of barrels near Fresh Water Lake. and worked our way south. We found only one lemming in an hour. As we were around trap lines IX and X, Sullivan joined us and we proceeded to a pile of drums in the "drum area" Mullen had his problems from them. After just entering the area, a track was broken. We walked back to arology looking around the area for lemmings. Upon reaching ARL, Mullen discovered he didn't have the body of the sampled lemming. After lunch, I backtracked to the woosel but didn't find it. Mullen went with me a second time and found it. Holm and Hine left for Inuvik for the day returning about 1700. They checked the traps this morning on their way and found nothing I worked on the animal colony from 1830-2030 and went with Hine or Sullivan to pick up traps on XIII & XIV. No animals were caught. This line completes the series run here at Barrow for the first third. We will begin all over again earlier but not later than the 15th of July. Mullen came down to ARL proper to find the medic to work on his hand he had cut with a wood chisel. It was-