Elatostema which forms the bulk of the herbaceous growth along the stream was sterile. This sp. apparently identical with a small-leaved one common in the valley below our 2800 m. camp on the Snow Mountains slope. February 7th. Best weather since our arrival at this camp. Morning clear with fair views all around to 9 AM; mist thereafter to dusk; no rain. Evening clear and starry, the Idenburg under fog. The Guba returned to Hollandia from Port Moresby at 2.30 PM, having been away since January 10th. Nicholson, who was engineer on our chartered vessel Maira on the Fly and has now been added to the Hollandia staff, arrived on the Guba. My last day in the field at this camp, as we move down on the 10th and undried specimens cannot be carried safely for more than a day. Have 180 numbers of my own collecting, for the six field days. Versteeg has 25 trees. Probably 130-140 spp. have been taken which do not occur at the 1800 m. camp. Four spare Dyaks from this camp left for the 1200 m. camp with loads of specimens etc., in charge of 2 soldiers. February 8th. High, overcast and extensive low cloud-fields at dawn but Wilhelmina visible for 2 hours; mist over camp 8-3 oclock; Idenburg clear at 6 PM; no rain; Wind W. Idenburg flood has submerged the dining room floor; highest flood on record; 10 m. over the water level when the camp was established in July. Day spent working on dried specimens. This has been a good camp for Rand, who has 6 spp. which do not occur at 1800 m., including a probably new species of Pachycephala, in all 45 spp. Richardson has spp. of mammals, including Uromys and , which were not found at the 1800 m. camp. The four Dyak carriers and 2 soldiers who left for 1200 m. camp yesterday morning returned this afternoon. They reported many trees down over the road from the