From Abstract: "This report is one of a sequence of quarterly reports, each designed to up-date its predecessor beginning with HASL-42, "Environmental Contamination from Weapon Tests." Herein are reported data which have accrued since HASL-51. In particular, the levels of strontium 90 in fallout, milk, tap water, vegetation, and foods are given, based on data available from November 1, 1958 to January 30, 1959."

Report regarding an experimental study to determine how much protection the Medical Research Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory provided against nuclear fallout. Fallout was simulated by pumping a sealed source of Co60 through tubing.

Patent for a clip for type-writers for Remington or similar type-writers that holds post-cards, envelopes, and similar short items in place. The invention prevents "the blurring or bad impression which is apt to be made, more particularly in machines having type bars with two types each, when the paper is not held firmly to the roller or platen" (lines 12-16).

Patent for starch used for paper that can act as an adhesive coating. Illustrations included.

Patent for a method of removing sulfur from Beaumont petroleum and converting it into sulfuric acid.

Abstract: Unconsolidated strata of clay, silt, sand, and gravel of Late Cretaceous and pre-Wisconsin Pleistoscene ages lie between crystalline basement rocks (bedrock) of Precambrian (?) age and unconsolidated deposits of late Pleistocene (Wisconsin) and Holocene ages in Queens County, Long Island, N.Y., a borough of New York City. Data collected during a recent study of the hydrogeology of the county and updated records of earlier studies have been used to prepare contour maps that delineate the surfaces of the bedrock and the Upper Cretaceous and pre-Wisconsin Pleistocene deposits. The presence of diabase fragments, apparently from the Hudson Palisades, in a buried valley through the county suggests that the ancestral Hudson River was diverted into Queens County in Pleistocene.

From purpose and scope: The study was made to obtain baseline data for the island (Shelter Island) and as part of a larger study of shallow ground-water quality in Suffolk County, New York.

Patent for an improved apparatus for burning finely divided fuel. It admits air (during combustion) at various access points to vary the air that is confined within the mechanism.

This report presents the results of ground water, stream water, and stream sediment reconnaissance in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.

An errata sheet for geomorphic and erosion studies at the Western New York Nuclear Service Center West Valley, New York.

Tabulated data presenting the results of elemental analyses for stream sediment samples taken from 5696 data collection sites in the state of New York. Results of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Elemental Determination-Methods and Detection Limits are given in ppm (see pages 41-42 of report).

Tabulated data presenting the results of field measurements and elemental analyses for ground water, stream water, and stream sediment samples taken from data collection sites in the state of New York. Neutron activation analyses are given for U, Br, Cl, F, Mn, Na, Al, V, and Dy in ground water and stream water, and for U, Th, Hf, Ce, Fe, Mn, Na, Sc, -Ti, V, Al, Dy, Eu, La, Sm, Yb, and Lu in sediments (see pages 29-41 of report).