Kaindi During the morning Bert Jentzsch's boss and gun boy came down with his mammal catch for the weekend, some of it badly damaged, some a bit high. Six sizable mammals all told: the prizes being a great Hyomys (gray with whitish belly) 32 inches long and the mountain Dorcopsulus (blackish and weighing about 4 lbs.). He or his dogs had also caught and killed one of the tree-climbing kangaroos but during the night it was partly eaten by the dogs, and this morning thrown away, apparently on the instructions of Clissold. Clissold knows just about enough about natural history to make mistakes of that kind. Van last night, across the valley on State Creek, again saw Petaurus but failed to get one. John and Richard are out tonight on the Bulldog Road. The dark sky after the passing of full moon, and the warmer and moister air, are making insect catching profitable tonight after a lean spell of about a week. So far as I can judge, the numerous insects being caught at the light are almost entirely different from those taken before at this camp. Tuesday, May 26. Overcast much of the day, with mist cutting off the nearby mountain-tops; a shower between 1 and 1:30 pm; air movement from about east. Made this my last morning in the field for this camp as specimens have to be dried in readiness for an early start for Lae Thursday morning. Had John drive me down the road toward Wau to the 6000-foot level and later pick me up at about the 6500-ft. mark (if there were an altitude marker). Did not find many plants not already collected. Noted however that Castanopsis and a second oak occurred between 6000 and 6500 feet; there were no beeches there. But beeches (N. grandis, I think) dominated the primary forest of the southern skyline several hundred feet above me. The slopes I was on were largely covered with second growths following disturbance by mining and road building. The slopes very steep indeed. My far point was an estimated 3 miles down the road; past the camp of gold fossicker Sid Barker near Meari Creek. Including two collections sent to me by Joe Havel, I have 288 numbers for this camp, 30 of them bryophytes; herbarium sheets number 1451 for the two weeks and two days. These results are pleasing. The area was virtually unknown botanically prior to our coming. I should say I saw at least another 100 species which were not in collectable condition. We are here at the beginning of a flowering season and quite a number of tree species have flower buds too young to collect as identifiable material. It is generally recognized that in New Guinea forests there are two rather general flowering seasons: one at the beginning of the local wet season, the other at the beginning of the dry. The present flowering at Kaindi is at the start of the dry season. The hunt along the Bulldog Road last night yielded nothing an no mammal was seen. Fifty traps of various kinds set on Slate Creek on the opposite side of the valley in the locale of the old Enterprise Mine, produced a fine specimen of Parahydromys - another first for this expedition. This evening Van, John and young Richard, with a Goilala boss-boy guide from Horrie Clissold, are out on the Watut slopes. They left about mid-afternoon with the intention of examining some old mine tunnels for bats, and jacking back. Brought in at dusk by one of the road gang Kukukukus, and bought by me for 3 sticks of tobacco and some paper, was a Pseudocheirus forbesi, from "big bush on top (of the mountain) true."