pocality:
Bikini Atoll.
Arji to Enyu.
Date: August 23, 1964,
Sunday.
personnel:
Weather:
Same 14.
Good.
Water conditions:
Calm,
Lewis and Donaldson went plankton collecting in A.M.
tows were made with 2
nets hauled at a time
tow--a total of 2 hours.
the Wide Passage.
lagoon
for
30 minutes
Four
a
‘Tows were made at the western end of
This should produce a mixture of oceanic and
plankton.
Jackson wernt back to Arji islet in the A.M. to pick up his
rat traps.
The trap line had been set in sedge growths and in
mixed communities with Messerschmidia dominant.
Competition
from
hermit crabs was most severe.
Only Polynesian rats were caught (8 male and 15 female).
None were pregnant,
14
females examined,
though all females were sexually mature.
Of
10 had had previous litters.
No trapping was done around the old installations, but it
is believed that only Polynesian rats would have been found here.
While a few rats were seen abroad during daylight hours,
this population does not have the diurnal characteristics of that
on Enyu.
At 13C0 the ship moved across the Wide Passage and
at Enyu Islet.
observation,
Everyone went ashore
or scrounging trip.
anchored
for one last collecting,
The crew worked until after