158 Forests poor in plants probably owing to a long dry season. Entsia (Agzelia) sp. one of the commonest trees of the lower slopes, and another (?) sp. frequent in developmental forest of the river flood plains. Forests generally are poor in undergrowth species, and only on flat crests of ridges where a few fern spp. sometimes form a good thick ground cover, and on a narrow belt of moist but well drained lower slope and small creek flats separatin the dry hillsides from the flood plain where Elatastemma (?) and Phiorrhiza abound, does one see any great massing of individuals. April 14th. Day occupied in preparing specimens for shipment to Hollandia. A gathering of the expedition at Bernhard Camp in the evening to celebrate the departure of Teerink and Toxopeus who are to go out to Hollandia tomorrow and thence to Java by K.P.M. boat due about the 22nd. Guba returned from Port Moresby having been away since 3/30/39. Patrol boat Bantam blown on the rocks at Hollandia in a storm last night. April 15th. Guba made two trips this morning and removed Teerink, Toxopeus and the bug crew, 15 soldiers (including Sergt. Gottschalt) and Dyaks and convicts to a total of 38 to Hollandia. A good supply of fresh food, the best since the early days at Lake Habbema, brought in by the plane. April 18th. Leaving Versteegh at the new camp for a few days longer to collect trees on the mpuntain slopes, I moved down, and out, to Bernhard Camp, where conditions for wo working are far superior. In December when, fresh from the Balim, I first saw Bernhard Camp; it seemed a most unpleasantly hot and altogether unattractive