he” wee es This is 33 atonus then per thousand? Yes. LIBBY: Could T have a few more of those figures? KRIEGER: Yor natural water the figure is ebout 55. For sea water it is about 11. The average for the earth's crust is about 4. The average for plants, that is the legumes, vegetables, grasses, trees, and bushes is about 9. KRAMISH: Could you alao give the data you have on a different eultural group? KRIEGER: Goue Japanese figures are rather incomplete. Asari tested or sade asegys on 11, what he called prote-historie, specimens. 592 to 2,114 parts per million of stroatius. He found from Using the figure of 575,000 parts per milifon caleium for American huean bone ash, the ratio turns cut to he .7 to .25. He also reported « result on one present day bone, a tibia, and the result there is 2.2. There is some, there is dectded discrepancy. LIBBY: How many skeletone did he have? ERIZGER: Eleven, tvelve actually. KULP: Ten't there reason to question those high nusbers for the soils natural waters? KRIEGER: Eleven for that range from .7 to .25. They all came from thet one very early investigation didn't they? Within a relatively recent publication of the Department of Agriculture they still refer to the results of Robinson in 1917 as the best so far. qq DUE ARCHIVES