Saturday, March 25, 1939. Big improvement in weather: more or less misty day, but morning largely sunny: no rain: clear starry evening. Rand radioed that a new camp site has been chosen under the hills near an old military brook. Monday, March 27, 1939. Hot fine day - temp. 26.5 degrees, the highest recorded here. Richardson and self sent specimens down to the Idenburg to catch the plane due in on 28th, or whenever the KPM boat arrives. Rand returned from Bernhard Camp after an absence of nine days. Tuesday, March 28, 1939. Rain much of last night and the morning rainy to 8 AM: rest of day fine and hot. Wednesday, March 29, 1939. Thin fog early morning: fine, hot day followed by thunderstorm 6.45 PM and steady rain. Took lunch with me and made a trip over to the slopes of the Idenburg, which I followed down to 700 m. Results poor. The forest a poor rain-forest of trees of rather small diameter (some oaks) carrying little in the way of undergrowth species. Substage open and of thin saplings: the woody undergrowth moss open still, but on flat place on the crest of the spur a fairly abundant ground layer of coarse ferns (Diplazium -3 spp.) (Dryopteris) and very numerous tree seedlings. Agathis appears not to go below 750 m. The slopes of the ridge steep and in places unstable. The forest of the lower slopes and ravines mostly secondary.