UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98105 405500 College of Fisheries Laboratory of Radiation RxkgxK Ecology Fisheries Center February 17, 1967 Mr. EB. A. Burns Head, Permit Section Agricultural Research Service Plant Quarantine Division 209 River Street Hoboken, New Jersey Dear Mr. Burns: The Laboratory of Radiation Ecology, University of Washington, will again be working in the Marshall Islands and will collect soil, plant and marine samples at Bikini and Johnston Atolls during March and April for analysis at the University of Washington. Your letter of July 23, 1964 to Stanley P. Gessel extended permission to import soils through June 30, 1965, under Permit No. S-12. We would appreciate extension of permission through June, 1967. It will not be vnossible to oven dry the soil samples in the field as was done previously, however they will be oven dried immediately after opening in Seattle. We also wish to bring back live specimens of the hermit crab, Coenobita perlatus. Ma All other samples will be frozen in the field and will be oven dried or ashed at Seattle. aSf; oe BM ~ EEH rah cc: m~ = ay oe ye . FOLBE® 4 Z 4 “Pawar E. Held Regearch Professor Beattle Offic, gain i Honolulu Office ay "tm. Bonnet, AEC, ee BOX Ne. pacarely yours, alu