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Sun.
June
20
A proposed schedule designed to carry things to Coen follows:
1. Pack 3 weeks stores for 2 camps.
a. Tozer area
b. Bonni's Creek
July 28 - July 12.
2. Return to Dainage and reorganise:-
July 19 - July 21.
3. Move entire outfit to Weirlock
July 22 - July 26.
4. Weirlock to Archer River
July 27 - 28.
5. Archer to Coen
Arrive July 28.
Work in Coen for a month & week Shipton's Flat, via Corkett
about Sept. 1st.
Trees. P. Phol. maculatus (in Q'last mues). 955; 445; 75;
20 (ear).
Sun
June 27
All last week occupied trying increase collection. Van spent
2 nights at the Gordon Landing strip & got a very good collection
which included Hippopotamus senoni. I went up to
the Drycas district "mine", Scarlet Perper with
Barry Fisher in search of a "fat-tailed mouse" which
used to be seen there 55 years ago. The place
was totally abandoned & little left of it. We
camped in Barry's truck. I put out 80 traps
& caught nothing.
We moved up to the north foot of Mt Tozer today.
Barry failed us (private car trouble), & Main
Roads & Leo Fenris of the Airport together took
us up the six miles of hill-road to this place.
(See map 2 pages back).
Set a few traps out.
Mon.
June 28.
Grass Toelomys, Smiththopsia, Rattus crenatus (?),
Isoodon. Started cutting track for camp on Mt
Tozer. Err up to about 800 feet. Van & Norton
already to traps. Will take Roy with me tomorrow.