i. various atolls and we may take a quick look at, starting in wm 1946,and not 1947, as in the staterent in your first volum, ew FREMONT-SMITH: ww 1946 is the correct’ one, not 1947. But we may take a quick look at Eniwetok :on the next slide, On " DONALDSON: 1946 is right. please , o Foree reports, because they presented an ideal environment wo in which to work, - oO in relatively favorable weather areas and they did provide rw) Pw -~ The atolls were selected, according to the Task @ safe anchorage for the fleet and probably equally important Of course, they were isolated; they were 12 there were a number of outposts upon which instrumentation 13 might be based, 14 15 16 17 18 19 | As far as we who were interested in the environ“mental sciences, they were quite ideal because they did provide a native flora and fauna that gave us a good crosssection of what we might expect. Now, you see these tiny little islets each with a peculiar environment quite its own, as the entire atoll tyne of environment is peculizr, 20 The land emerging area, about three square miles 21 in each of the atolls, divided up into som 20 little islands 22 in each atoll, 23 limited, 2h tropical environment that is subjected to wide temperature 25 and salinity variations. 26 one group of mammis divided into three species cof rats that 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 The land plants, the fauna, is relatively It's limited to those forms that can survive ina The land and animals are limited to were introduced apparently at the time that the native people cam@ there, The birds are limited only to those aquatic birds tnat can fly long distances, Insects, there's oné amphibian and one introduced, a reptile. On the eontrary the marine fauna and flora is extrerely diverse, to Puget There are about 700 srecies of fish in contrast Sound where I work in my normal activity. There e" Statfovc W A / L C U J / DOE