Maken 1959 Journal may 17 (cont.) Fulfilled the afternoon away reading + chatting. This being Sunday the lab has been dead all day. After supper went for spin on Tundra. Checked area along pipe line ridge for owls. None seen. Heard Dulls from dump. They arrived in numbers yesterday morning, at 9.30 A M according as to climatologist. Very little of Tundra is exposed yet. < 1 Do. No lemming sign. Checked Snow-Bunting singing behind lab two p.m. Found 4 27-07 w tundra as far established: May 18-19 Barrow, Alaska Both days have been spent moping about the Lab waiting for the plane. Actually something was accomplished on May 18 (Monday). Tom Cade & I checked down and packed all of our gear for the Pitmegea trip. This took a good part of the morning & most of the afternoon. Bobby Fisher returned with Don Stevens to Barrow in the afternoon. He could not fly us out because the plane was due for a 100 hour check; but