Merril Eisenbud, Manager
New York Operations Office
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RADIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF DUPLICATS SAMPLES OF
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The Division of Biology and Medicine is sending a team of
four scientists from the Applied Fisheries Laboratory,
University of Washington, to conduct a radiobiological
resurvey of Rongelap and Ailinginae Atolls.
The group
will leave the West Coast on October 15, 1955. They will
make two round trips from Eniwetok to the Atolls on
October 20th and 24th.
In evaluating the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory
and Applied Fisheries Laboratory data of the cooperative
expedition of January 25-30, 1955 of Rongelap, our staff has
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found that the two laboratories report different levels of
activity in duplicate semples. In some instances these
variations are of some magnitude. For this reason we are
reduesting that the New York Operations Office laboratory
analyze duplicate samples of some of the material that will
collected by the Donaldson resurvey group. The material
we are interested in having analyzed is soll, sea water,
plankton, edible plants and the muscle, liver and bone of
omnivorous and carnivorous fish,
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It is recommended that either you or Dr, John Harley telephone
Dr. Donaldson this week to make the necessary arrangerents as
to the number, size end form of sample in which you want the
specimens delivered to your laboratory.
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