Show trade reservation by ANA to fly to Townsville next Tuesday. No sign of strike ending. Taking part y. boggys by air - rest by trains when they run again. Put traps out in Botanic Gardens but took only the house mmm. No rats. Some burrowers said to be about. Photographed grey penguin & whiptail at 200 - also emus and "actinie cypariss" or brogla. Sat Dec. 14. Tardrie, 4. Physiology of the Fitzroy Basin. Roy. Soc. Soc. Queensl., about 1923-1924. He gave me several other of his papers. Simmons conducted us all through the botanical gardens. Talked to man from Wyndham (100 mi.s), on Fitzroy River of north Western Australia. He records (he thinks accurately) a pest plague of rats which "came from the south" in April, 1984, followed by a plague of feral cats. This was at the end of the rainy season. Sun Dec. 15. A very big day at Mt. Etta. First went in to Pilkington's Cave with his foreman and Port Vallis. Had to descend 20 feet y. rope & series of other difficult descents. Found Pipistrellus-like bats clustered in squeaking pimp in hollow like inverted cup in ceiling. Shot one separately. Other bats flying about but no shot possible. Inside from 11 to 12. Moved to other cave, Johanson's Cave. Then found Macroderma pjas - small entry if perhaps 20. they hang up in groups of 2 or 3 - not very close together forever. Carry shot. Considerable local masses of fresh guano - strong smell of ammonia. BB picked up Lygos lizard - nana, powdered head. I found skull of rock wallaby in T. Cave. Patt picks up lower jaws of ? podymelus. Preparations of 20 Pipistrellus & 7 Macroderma to finish 11 o'clock at night. Mon. Dec Busy all day packing, pretty finishing touches on specimens, cleaning 16 skulls, annoying details of air trip etc.