Maclear 1966 Ate Dinner at Dr. West's home - very pleasant wife and two boys. Returned to the lab to begin actual measurements. After one good trial had a series of incomplete explosions which wasted several samples, damnit. 27 August College, Alaska Again - trouble with incomplete explosions. Then more trouble - the cpower went off. Called West and he came in. Suggested that I make pellets for the calorimeter to improve burning, and tried to show me the method in the dark. Also showed me what to do to put the vacuum system back in operation when the power comes back. Not much more that could be done, so walked into mixed spruce - hardwood woodland behind the building. Many slate-colored juncos and white-crowned sparrows, especially along the edges where Ethenopodium is the dominant weed, along with Epilobium. Both are now in seed. (In fact - everything is now in seed.) Weather was quite warm -