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ARCTIC RESEARCH LABORATORY

BOX 1310 3 FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
UNDER CONTRACT WITH

OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH

SEND ALL CORRESPONDENCE LABORATORY LOCATED AT
POINT BARROW, ALASKA

Via Air Mail

May h, 1952

Mr. James W. Bee
University of Kansas
Museum of Natural History
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Mr. Bee:

Your two recent letters dated April 2lst and 25th arrived one
day apart. I realize that you did not have an opportunity to
check my bush flight schedule prior to writing the first letter,
so it is no wonder that there is a divergence of opinion as to
what would constitute proper coverage of the field during the
summer of 1951.

I am compelled however to point out certain discrepancies in
your estimate involving the amount of bush plane travel
needed to get you to the numerous localities outlined on your
sketch accompanying the first of your two letters. In the
first place, we are authorized to do field work only within
the confines of the Petroleum Reserve No. h. Therefore, your
stations 1, 5, 6, and 9 are outside the areas into which we
can utilize bush plane travel.

One other point that apparently did not occur to you is that
the total flying distance involved is not merely the nautical
miles between Point Barrow and Station 1, for example, and
between Station 1 and 2. Under ‘the schedule which you have
outlined, the total flying time from Point Barrow to Station 1
would be double the time required to fly .. from Barrow to
Point Lay region, since the plane has to be paid for from
take-off time at Point Barrow until its landing at Point Barrow
on return.

Then, at the end of the following week when you wish to go
from your Station 1 to Station 2, the total elapsed time
involved would be that required for a plane to fly from Point
Barrow to Point Lay, to your Station 2, which appears to be

on the headwaters of Carbon Creek, and return to Point Barrow.
This same figuring of time would be necessary in each of the