Journal July 5, (cont.) a good, clean cut, bleeding profusely at first, but Dave had stopped the bleeding. The medic was [illegible] & began work. July 6, 1962, 82 Barrow, Alaska; Clear day with a warm breeze but cooling off toward evening. Started on lemming colony about 0830. One worked a few minutes & broke a graduated test tube during work on the first lemming which made me decide to do something else for awhile being still too groggy to work right. I started skinning a Phalacrope with occasional advice from Holmest Hines. Sullivan had walked out to his line plot about 0900 returning at about 1100. I worked on this bird all morning, working slow, then having to take it apart and do it again. It didn't cut extremely bad, but very anatomic. Mullen could not obtain a weasel for blood sampling this morning but finally got one this afternoon, so we decided to leave at 1400. However, news came that someone, Hines or Sullivan would leave for Cape Simpson right away. Hines & Sullivan were at Pitalka's plot, Hines censuring and Sullivan clearing. I went out and brought them back in, The three of them, Mullen, Sullivan & Hines, decided Sullivan should go, and that Hines could go on the pickup plane and Sullivan could slow him the lines at that time. Now the plane will not leave until tomorrow. Immediately afterward Mullen & I went looking for lemmings. We did not find a single one, even though we spent 2 hours in the