October 8, 1938. From field notebook #2 Route Lake Habbema - south slopes of Grand Valley to establish camp in the mossy-forest region. Toxopeus, Brass, Sergeant Wildenboer, 5 soldiers, 4 collectors, cook (Soerip), 16 Dyak carriers and 4 convict carriers. 7.35 Tox and Brass left Habbema 10 minutes after the carriers. Trail over grasslands and peaty slopes wet and mired by native traffic. 8.00 Rest ½ way up ridge (Grand Valley Divide) 3300 m. Burnt Libocedrus forest. Good regeneration Libocedrus (4-5 ft.) in woody regrowths in which Gaultheria, Drimys and Leucopogon abundant. 8.10 Resumed, Tox, Brass and 2 soldiers going ahead to choose a camp site. Toxopeus had previously (about a month ago) been down the track to about 2400 m. 8.20 Edge of flat summit (3400 m) of Grand Valley divide. Low Libocedrus and mossy thickets broken by swampy pools and grass glades and disturbed by burning and cutting along the track by natives. Wood swallow (Artemis) flying overhead. Photos. Libocedrus killed(by fire ?) and others blown over; shallow rooting in peaty overburden on saturated grey sand. 8.30 Photo of track leading down from summit of divide (3400 m) through a peaty grass hollow; also open stand low Libocedrus and and epiphytic Myrmecodia (concave leaves). 8.35 Limestone (?) sinkhole under a burnt forest ridge with dense forest regeneration and dead Podocarpus papuanus to 2 ft. diameter. 8.45 Broad plateau-like divide begins steep slope to Grand Valley at 3380 m. alt. On crest and extending down slope, large shrubby burnt area with a few dead Popocarpus papuanus; shrubs Drimys, Leucopogon, Tetramolopium 2-4 ft. Selliguesa abundant on ground. Myrmecodia on