116 in common with old second growths (# ). This seen but not collected at Nimode, at Mt. Tafa. One of my Dyaks scraped a small black leach from his foot at 2750 m. A goodly number of natives brought food from a distant place down the valley called Imbelen(an). These people eat bananas without bothering to remove the skin. Huls returned from Habbema. October 22nd. Overcast and few drops rain to 8.30 AM: then clear, bright to 3.30: cloudy then on to : no rain. A big transport of Dyaks, convicts and natives fromHabbema, Dyaks carrying loads of 2 tins rice (30 kg.). Made photos of camp and arrival of transport. Cataloguing a big accumulation of material from yesterday. October 23rd. Collected on second ridge NW from camp down to an altitude of 2720 m. Poor day: forests dominated by Sycopsis and no new entrants in the way of trees. October 24th. The fourth day without local mist or rain. Temperature to 100 degrees f. in tent 12-2 oclock. collected some interesting ferns on an excursion down the creek to 2700 m. These include the first Adiantum for the mountains. Toxopeus brought in a sterlle leaf of Dipteris novo-gueneinsis. Teerink and Rand were to go down into the Grand Valley tomorrow for the purpose of selecting a site for our middle altitude camp. It is however necessary for Rand to remain in camp and I will go in his place.