Abstract Dr. Murray L. Johnson, M.D., was a Professor of Biology at the University of Puget Sound and helped establish the mammalian collections at the Puget Sound Museum (now the Slater Museum of Natural History) in 1948. He was contracted by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), along with Dr. Burton T. Ostenson, a Professor of Biology at Pacific Lutheran University, and Mr. Myron L. Barbour, a recent college graduate, to conduct a study of marine mammal ecology in the region around Cape Thompson,...