Machen 1966 Dove right in by preparing insect material for freeze drying and starting the system. After dinner with Paul returns to the lab, connected frozen insects to the vacuum system, then spent the rest of the evening plucking and cutting up birds for fat extraction - not exactly an exciting pastime. Finished in time to drive Paul to the airport in the jeep which the Institute provided for my use. Returned to new (and much cheaper) room in Hess Hall - an old dormitory on "lower campus". 26 August College, Alaska Spent the day working with the calorimeter (a Parr Oxygen Bomb Calorimeter) to learn the technique and experiment with aculturation of samples with the standard - benzoic acid. It worked well using the Ptarmigan excrement they has available. Weighed my dried (oven dried, that is) insects and found every weight greater than Holmes'.