crn -JA- for daily hematological studies nentioned below snd the blood of the dogs will be saved for chemical studies. c. Blood Counts: To be done drily on dogs and pigs by Commander Cronkite. d. Blood Chemistry: 50 percent of the doz blood at autopsy will be saved. senarated and frozen. The plesme will be The following studies are contemplated: 1. plesma fibrinogen (?? by whom) 2, non-protein bound iron (Che.nutin) 3, serum potassium (Hestings) “he remainder of the plasma will be stabilized and preserved by passing through an ion exchange column (Libby, U.C.L.A.). Therme1 Radiation: There will be first test, six in the second, five stetion2? in the each containing eleven animals (three or four pigs for every dog). Sach animel will be anesthetized and held in place against the vorts designed to adnit non-ionizing radiations of different wave length or at different times after the exrlosion. Three combinetions of biological measurements will be mede--the first, the thermal burns versus time 1.¢. durins the first 30 nillisecond interval after the explosion and during the veriod thereafter; the second, the burn produced on skin graduslly exnosed by a sliding Shutter which opens at a definite rate of sneed, and third, burns vroduced by excluding certain components of the lisht snectrun, the ultraviolet, i.e. by filtering out individuclly the visible, and the infrered licht. "ech of these tests will be car ied out on both pigs and poe ARCHIVES