MARSHALL ISLANDS ATOLL SAMPLES COLLECTED BY T. N. WHITE, 5-7 MARCH 1954 Earth samples wore collected as follows: &£t cach island visited soveral samples wore dug and put into tho sam one-gallon "icc-crcam carton", Each samplo (iwc. cach digging) approximtod o: square foot to a depth of one inch. The numbcr and locations of the samples w selected to represent, as well as could be judged, an average of the arcas us by the inhabitants, after tho samples were mixed in the carton. unusually shaded or unshaded by trocs were avoided. Arcas that we: The large "pebbles" in th composité represent coral gravel from "main strect" through the village, toe Water samples were sclected according to the principal source incurront Inclosure 1