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.
Mes-
serschmidia also shows great extremes, some being very vigorous
and some very poor.
species.
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.