LIDICKE 1969 Aug 27 cont. Dego, I Agnic. Stock & skins as I could look into the matter my export permit with this letter of approval we went to the customs office & then filled out 6 copies of a form. The Jim showed me round town, including the market, where a number of dead wallabies were for sale (a few W. agilis & Dorcopsis). Margins says he is not an Aphyllodele entomologist in his 17 years in the Darwin area. Then we went to his home for a few hours, & the drive we took to the Papuan Hotel in town. I had known & then called Billy Beckwith & chatted with him on the phone. I had tried unsuccessfully to call him earlier, & Margins & I had also stopped by his home about 10:00 but he was not there. We walked around streets of Maning for a short while. Wrote letter to Service & Baxter O'Brien. Aug 28 Took few photos & Pat Marshy went to PO. at 0830 & mailed box of specimens. Then checked out of Papuan Hotel & walked up the hill to the Museum (Papua & New Guinea Public Museum & Art Gallery) to see Roy McKay - forester & one qualified biologist & anthropologist on staff. He showed me the museum collections & we talked about his work. They have only a few hundred skins of maybe a hundred species in detail. They also have a few hundred bird skins. McKay's address is the