Maclean 1968 Journal winter 13 June Barrow, Alaska Again slept in for therapeutic reasons. Drove in to Barrow and bought 5 large seal skins from Shortz's store for $136.06. Spent the afternoon doing transects. The snow is perched at the bank - very slushy, but still there (76% cover). The next two days, if the weather holds, should see the end of much of it. Nothing new in the birds - bairdi still coming in, and melenotos looking encouraging. The Wien plane brought Pete Gogan, our assistant, and Uriel Safriel, the Israeli Post-Doc from Michigan - another shorebird type. Put Pete to work hand-sorting the berlese 300 samples to see how the extractors worked - not perfectly - we found ? Pedicia in 12 samples. Safriel mentioned that he had been successful in placing samples in hot water. Will have to try this. 14 June Barrow, Alaska Pete found 1 additional Pedicia in the remaining 4 300 samples. .. the berlese extracted 38/46, or 82.5% of the Pedicia in the 3-day run. took Gogan and Safriel out the gasoline rods. We stopped by the new