99 Goroka-Kotuni Monday, Aug. 3: Reorganized collecting supplies. Sent our Mt. Wilhelm collections to the Department of Forests in Lae for storage. John Womersley extremely helpful in this. Late last week his assistant, Ted Henty, was sent to the Mt. Hagen area to collect material of Caldesia (Alisma) for drug research. On his return to Lae today he took charge of our collections and carried them (about 370 lbs.) on the plane as excess baggage on government warrant. To the Seale's for dinner in the evening. Ken James and a Dr. Ken also guests. The latter wears a brushy moustache, is interested in botany, and is a nervous and rather sissy type. A very pleasant evening. Tuesday, August 4. Arrived in Goroka by direct flight from Port Moresby this a.m. Phil Spalding, his son Phil, and Bill Hosmer herpetologist to the party. Their plane stopped about 3/4 hour, then took them on to Nondugi. They will stay there for several days to visit Fred Shaw Mayer at the Hallstrom Wildlife Farm. Rus Peterson and Lionel went with them from Goroka and will drive (as guests of young Michael Collins) to Dan Leahy senior's place to examine bat caves in the limestone (this at Mt. Hagen). With stores for two weeks, we left in the Land Rover after lunch for Kotuni Sawmill on the south slopes of Mt. Otto. The mill at a reputed 7200 feet; owned now by Joe and Rod Collins, and presently in charge of young Jim Leahy. On the way out we called in to see Jim Leahy, Sr., the pioneer settler of the Goroka district, who has 50 acres of bearing coffee, does mixed afrming, and also has cattle and a butchering businesses. Pleasant but rather stolid grayhaired man of about 50. Has done very well, apparently. Is getting well over a ton per acre from his coffee; price now 4/- per pound for fair average quality, guaranteed by merchants in Australia. Speaks highly of a man named Gota from Hawaii (Japanese) who was hired by the New Guinea banks to advise on coffee culture about two years ago. Has followed Gota's advice and done well. Coffee has to be fertilized on this soil. Some growers don't do this, prune properly, etc. and their harvest is round about 1/2 ton per acre. Wednesday, August 5. We had good clear, or only partly cloudy, weather in the broad Asaro Valley. Up here on Mt. Otto we are more in the cloud zone, and there has been very little sun today. Temperature at the house at 1 p.m. was 64 F. Started my botanizing with a visit to the head of the race which supplies water for the Pelton wheel which drives the sawmill. The intake is half a mile or more up the creek -- the Collins group does not bother much about place names, and I can not as yet get the name of the stream. Country pretty much disturbed by logging operations, but should offer fair collecting. Recognized an oak with grayish young leaves. The forest of the lower slopes of the creek ravine is rain forest to me. Some definite low altitude elements present (e.g. Randia). Did well on orchids, of which I must have gathered 8-10 species in the morning. The creek is called IAMAHAGI. Have decided to disregard our aneroid, which has been reading 7650-7700 ft. here, and call the camp altitude 2200 m. The elevation at the old house, some 50 ft. below the present one and on the level of the mill, is said to be 7200 ft. by a Forest Department aneroid.