197 At Hollandia, Richardson and I were kept busy packing specimens and equipment until the eighteenth. An inventory was made of equipment left at Hollandia, and I marked out two areas of land which the Government has very kindly granted for research purposes. One of these areas, about 200 m. square, surrounds the expedition house on three sides, and extending up to crest of the ridge behind the house, takes in a very good range of forest second growth and a little inferior primary rain-forest left on rough ground. The second area, 100 m. square, is in ~~ old forest farther up the same ridge. Expedition headquarters at Hollandia has developed into an elaborately equipped permanent base - elaborate so far as mechanical and radio equipment is concerned. In addition to the two godowns, etc. erected in the beginning, there is now spacious radio shack (6 aerials) and a large and costly house of 12 bedrooms, etc. on a high point overlooking the harbour. This house, while one approached from the godowns on the beach by a stairway of 138 steps, is raised high in front and is let into the hillside behind. The ground plan is more or less like this. SKETCH. Roof of galvanized iron, floors of sawn 8 x 1 hardwood in main house and concrete in bathroom and photo. lab., walls of the main house a kind of stucco on bamboo lathes (cement 300 bags borrowed from Government and not yet returned). It is planned to use Hollandia as base for another expedition beginning in the first half of 1940. J. G. Nicholson of Port Moresby, who had charge