Journal July 24, (cont') Have to Come in. Tomorrow X1, X11, X111 + X1V will be set. July 25 Pt, Barrow, Alaska; Started on putting up a lemming skin until Mullen came and we began work on the colony. Mullen is trying to plan ahead for experiments. We went over the data on the litters. Some will be toe clipped for individual growth rates while two others are reserved for an experiment for Schultzy. Yes, We have worked out a procedure with Schultzy for running this extra colony. Adams will complete a 10-day experiment on ten animals with the grasses, Dupontia + Arctophyta. At the present time, the experiment is being run for data concerning food & water consumption, weight gains or losses, and feces analyses. Mike Adams wants to leave Aug. 31st. On this day or the next, we (or rather I) shall start to cut back on the amount of grass being added, and put in part less chew. Thus, the next day, put in more less chew then grass, and the following day, just less chew. This will give all animals an equal start on the next ten day trial with Eriophorum + Carex. Another experiment to be run (perhaps with the growing litters) will be to add grass from the fertilizer plot to half a group, (probably, again, a litter), and to the other half, grass grown normally on the tundra. Schultzy is devising an outline before he leaves the 28th. Bess Pieper will probably do most of the collecting of grasses, although we will all try to help as much as possible. Mullen decided not to go blood sampling, but to work on the colony some more today.