Notes of Professor Gessel for 8/29/64--received after others had been forwarded to L.R.B. Japtan today with Bill Jackson to pick up rats and look around. Coconut grove is in poor condition. gives me the impression of extremes. and some poor. Island generally Some areas and plants good Saw groves of very sick Pisonia trees--yellow sparse foliage but don't know what may be wrong with them. serschmidia also shows great extremes, and some very poor. species. Mes- some being very vigorous Saw and collected a strange variant of this Terminal leaves of some plants, but entire foliage on. others was narrow, elongated, almost needle-like, with deformed margins. Saw such plants throughout the island. Saw no monitor lizards. Military personnel report large number of coconut crabs.