Charles W. Edingtoa ~3- Sample the people, say around 50 to 75 from Bikini and 100 from knewetok. eet La ia!¢ ethod: Easy enough to do, send blood samples to a lab, Wili last 30 to 36 hours, preferably not frozen but slightly cooled, Would be pood to have a boat, with lab aboard, incubator, media, two centrifuges. Perhaps just separate white cells and ship them out. Whitecelis in « medium will last 24 hours, with 40% success. Might algo look at buccal wmears for X and Y chromosomal aberrationa; easy procedure and worth the additional effort. People; two people in the field coutd do it. It would be good to read a few elides initially to détemnine how many cells ara needed, and if backsround is clear. the reading could be a collaborative effort. Pat Jacobs in Honolulu (worked with Court-Brown) is superb, Hawait, She could supervise at the University of An oral summary of theee notes was given to brs, Conard and Barr about December 1973 when Dr. Conard was at Headquarters. My general impression of his sesesswent et the time was that there were tuo many political problems and other lssues involved with this resettlement to undertake tests of thio kind which themselves could raise problems. ‘Khomas ll. Roderick Geneticist, Biomedical Programs Division of Blomedical and Environmental Research ee: br. Barr MD, 655