Maclean 1969 Journal (14 July) and no nests. Pitelka has documented this systematically. The vegetation is much breezier, with much more moss and shallow active layer on the plot. What- ever the reason - cover, nutrients, nest- material - the fertilizing has a real effect on the lemmings. Spent the afternoon getting thoroughly rain-soaked in checking emergence drops and taking soil samples. Our grandfather Pédia, put into an enclosure on 8 July, is finally dead. In the evening Pitelka gave a seminar on Microtines and lemming cycles. Afterwards I went into Barrow. 15 July Barrow, Alaska More of the same. Cold, foggy, Bering Sea type weather. Worked in the lab in the morning, emergence traps with Dave and Tom Schwann in the afternoon. Today I wrapped myself in a blanket next to the Tropiline II Golban Plover nest, and I should have some good pictures of the ♀ incubating. The insect emergence has yet to get going in July - it appears that the cold weather may produce the period of emergence. If it is simply a matter of heat summation that would be the result.