Machean 1968 Journal 1 June) no concentration of activity. Spend the evening waiting for Pitelka and talking with Dave and others in the lab. 2 June Barrow, Alaska Spends most of the day visiting with the in-laws. More warm, pleasant, snow- meltup weather. Walked home via Browerville ridge. Saw the first birds of the year as well as redbacks, turnstones, and the two passerines. Still no golden plovers. 3 June Barrow, Alaska Finally made connections with Pitelka, as well as Tom Custer, who arrives last night. In the morning talked about surf birds and finished arranging the lab. After lunch went out to drum area to set Tom's longspur traps, then continued out to survey the area. Went out to look at and scheme over the now-deserted micro-met- wanigans. (there it was so warm that we had to take off our jackets.) Out to gasoline ridge- not much there but 1 very worked up red-back. Again was impressed by the tundra condition; many cocoons, willow catkins about to burst out, and many Pedicularis hedos -