7. her collections in the U.S. As a result of her operations, an ordinance was recently passed to prohibit the commercial collection of objects of primitive art. Scientific collecting will not be affected. Julius himself is not in favor of valuable or very rare objects being kept in the government collection in Port Moresby. He feels they should go to institutions in Australia, U.S.A., etc. where they can be properly stored and be available for study. By radiophone, through his assistant in Lae (Ken White), Womersley made inquiries about our "lost" cargo. It was not on the Malekula which arrived in Lae from Sydney today. Buntings of Lae had not made inquiries of their Sydney forwarding agents as to the whereabouts of the cargo, but have been asked to do so by radio. Further, they have done nothing about recruiting boys I asked for in a letter some weeks ago. Through the inefficiency of Martin, the manager, or his assistant, we are in a bad mess. No other ship is due in Lae until about the end of next week. Womersley tells me we could not expect to do better by switching our agency to any other Lae firm. Van and I dined with Alan and Winks Willis at their beautiful home high on a slope overlooking both the open sea and the harbor. Other guests were Claude Champion ( 2 i/c Civil Affairs Dept.) and E.V. Crisp (General Manager, Steamships Trading Company), their wives, and Bob Bunting (head of Buntings and A.H. Bunting Ltd.). All old timers. Told Bunting of our situation with his Lae Branch. He will have one of his Lae staff delegated to handle and be responsible for all matters pertaining to us. Also he has very generously offered us a house to live in in Lae, complete with laundry boy. During the day I attended to the duty-free entry of our cargo, and Van and I registered as aliens, as required by law. Ken Slater, recently resigned Animal Ecologist and a correspondent of mine, left in Port Moresby, as a gift for us, several live cuscus, a pair of live Sminthopsis, and living and dead specimens of a big freshwater turtle, Carettochelys insculpta, from the Fly River (the latter minus head, which was sent to someone in Europe). Van busy on these specimens this afternoon. Tuesday, March 24. Called first at Steamships to see Willis to give him some New York flower seeds for his wife. Later talked with Clem Rich there. Clem in town from the Samarai end to make application under a new government measure whereby veterans of foreign wars are eligible to get giants up to £25,000 for the acquirement and commercial development of land. Clem, a son of L.M.S. missionaries, and former Acting Resident Magistrate in Papua, was a drunkard for years. Has now been on the wagon for two years (according to friends), and looks as bright as a new shilling. Womersley and I saw Administrator Cleland in afternoon. A short inter- view made purely as a formality. Cleland has never shown any interest in our work, and is reputed to be no more than a figurehead. Was pleasant enough. Dorothy Shaw seems well satisfied with her job as Plant Pathologist. Has accumulated a considerable library of reprints since my visit in 1957. A 30x12 glasshouse is now being built for her. New fungus diseases, for this part of the world at least, keep turning up. In last Sunday's collection was a fungus disease previously known only from West Africa. Joe Szent-Ivary (Entomologist) has been seriously ill, and looks it.