Maclean 1967 Journal 29 August University of Alaska, College, Alaska Up for a refugee soup-line breakfast at the Univ. Commons, then walked up to the Institute of Arctic Biology building. Spoke with Dr. West about the conference and things I want to do in his lab, then went to work. I want to do: 1 - fat extractions on birds 2 - Dry and weigh tipulid larvae separated by size classes to generate a length-weight regression. 3 - Fatty acid comparisons of birds (just 1 plover and 1 pectoral with large fat pads on pectoral muscle) with prey species. This will require extraction of prey as well - all 3 sp. of larvae and Tipula and Peiria adults. In order to do this the prey must be freeze-dried rather than oven dried. Martha Meng is still working as Dr. West's technician and will assist in this. 4. Dry and weigh other insects. Started by spending the morning, with Eona, plucking 2 golden plovers. Got 1 of these cut up and into the oven (SN753). 0.8690 g.] took a little subcutaneous fat from the other (SN 751) and began preparation for