stars showing at 8 PM. Idenburg high and rising: 15 cm. of water in the radio shack. Guba returned from Port Moresby and loaded cargo for the Idenburg. My first day in the field since the 11th. Visited the Agathis forests and found there a number of spp. apparently restricted to the habitat. Was surprised to find Hanguas growing here and there throughout the forest, the ill drained soggy ground evidently well suited to the swamp plant (perhaps differing specifically from the sp. of the coast swamps.) Richardson having very poor results from his 400 odd traps and 200 snares. Today only one rat from the lot - a Melomys. Rand has about 60 spp. of birds. Dyaks, under instructions, caught about 20 small fishes of one kind and a like number of crabs - all very small. March 15, 1939. Fine morning, discontinuous mist on ridges: strong gusts wind from NNW and heavy rain 4.30 - 5.15 PM. Idenburg rising. Guba flew stores to Bernhard Camp, arriving at 8 PM and leaving 9.15. Our mail, fresh food, etc. in camp here by mid-afternoon. Collected along the path through the mossy-forest to the edges of the Iden- burg divide and made some photographs. Collecting very disappointing. The mossy-forest poor in spp. and most things sterile. Sama , identical with one found rarely at 1200 m. Camp, occurs plentifully, but is sterile here as well as at the upper camp. Phyllocladus, common, a very small leaved Podocarpus which occurs also in Agathis forest and quite a few Agathis in this mossy-forest. Received today through Archbold at Hollandia and Mrs. AnnArchbold in U.S.A. and invitation to join Dr. David Fairchild on a three to five months trip