Pengagl Creek on the road for a couple of weeks. ADO Mathieson advised that he will not be able to accept my invitation to visit our camp; full schedule until end of month. Seems to be trying to make a secret of something we already know -- DC Seale proposes to send picks and shovels for the new road work from GoroKa on the planes which move us out on August lst., and no doubt some white officer will be there to receive and distribute them. We will probably meet Mathieson at Keglsugl on the lst. Spent the day in camp, working on yesterday's big collection, etc. Boys sent out part of the morning with nets and killing bottles brought in a nice lot of butterflies including 2 or 3 spp. new to the collection. Yellow and black are the predominant colors in butterflies here. Van, who has done nothing but prepare specimens for weeks (apart from jacking at night), spent the morning on a tour of the trapping areas, guided by John. Made flashlight photos of habitats. Three of the rare little shrew-like hydromines brought in by village natives from snares set above camp level on Fiunde-Aunde Creek. Sunday, July 26. Max. 18.5, min. 5.0 C. Overcast dawn following a clear, cold night. A day of broken cloud; thunderstorm over the Ramu Divide to the east; light rain here 5:15 - 6 p.m. Botanized on the opposite side of the valley -- the lift to the Ramu Divide from the continuation of Pengagl Creek to the Iabuka, which I crossed by the pig bridge at 2600 m. Afterwards crossed the big stream which comes down from the Jimmi Gap; this crossing also at 2600 m. Thence climbed the slopes some distance in the hope of finding beech trees. No change in the forest as compared with our camp side of the valley. The trail much cut up by pigs. Got a fair bag of odds and ends, some of them trees I have been waiting to flower. A big-leaved fig came from the opposite side of the valley. Got back to camp at 1:45. Monday, July 27. Max. 16.5, min. 6.0 C. Last night cloudy; gusts of wind down valley at times, rattling the canvas screen which serves as door to our hut. Rosy dawn and early morning good, but soon clouding. Unusually heavy rain between 2 and 4 p.m.; the creek running muddy. Guided by John, over one of his cut trails in an approximately NNW direction, I went over to Tumbaga (or Umbaga) Creek, the next stream beyond the Fiunde-Aunde and much bigger than that stream. Has a moderate fall, bouldery and rocky bed, and is about 10 yards wide. The steep banks are entirely vegetated by seral forest growths except for an occasional break by a landslide revealing a very deep gray sandy soil, very different from the bouldery (glacial?) profile of the cut banks of the Pengagl. The seral growths largely two prickly species of Saurauia. The rocks of the stream, or the larger ones, matted with moss. Hard, slippery travel over the rocks, and, grabbing for support, one usually caught hold of one of the prickly saurauias. A big Marattia and widespread big palmatisect Pteris prominent as ferns. But botanizing was poor indeed! The bestthing for the morning was immature fruiting material of the common Papua- cedrus of this locality.