Lae I started the invertebrate collection with a blackish wire worm, and a big beetle well infested with mites, taken on the ground in the Botanic Garden. I expect insect collecting supplies from the local Department of Agriculture experiment station, but have yet to receive them. Gave the cook the evening off and had dinner at the Hotel Cecil, on the beach. There we met Jim Lewis, of the U.N. staff in New York, who arrived earlier in the evening with a U.N. Mission on a tour of the Western Pacific Trust Territories. Jim a bit fatter of face than a year ago, and jaunty in a figured blue sports shirt. He introduced Sergio Kociancich, from Trieste and representing Italy on the mission. On its tour in eastern parts of the Trust Territory of New Guinea, the mission was met by various native delegations. For example, the dissident Tolai of New Britain asked that their area be taken over by the United States, and delegations from one or two other groups did likewise. On Monday, the mission will be taken to the Kukukuku country at Menyamya. This no doubt a bit of window dressing on the part of the Administration, designed to show the beneficent, taming influence of the government. The cannibalistic little "Kuks" are one of the most untamable people in all New Guinea, but for some years now it would seem that they have been amenable to control in the area about Menyamya Government Station. Kukukuku is not the proper name for this numerous tribe. It is the Motu word for excrement, given to members of the tribe who raided parts of the coast of the Gulf of Papua where the Motuan people of the Port Moresby coast conducted their ancient annual trade with great, multiple, crab-claw sailed canoes called lakatoi (see design on the present one-shilling postage stamp of Papua-New Guinea). Kukukuku is also the Motu name for the black sticks of trade tobacco of the white man. Sunday, March 29. Have heard remarks about the heat even from local residents during the last two days. Temperatures have not been very high, perhaps, and this afternoon there was a breeze, but humidity is high, and on the side of our house from which some of the breeze or air movement comes there is a 15-foot, very dense hibiscus hedge to give privacy from one of the single men's quarters of the Administration. The SE wind movement of the tradewind season began about the beginning of the week, we are told. The SE season is the wettest season in Lae. Inland, the seasons are reversed, and most of the rain is brought by the NW monsoons. At Kelly's farm, about 3 miles out on the Markham Road, Van shot two dusk-flying Scoteinus. He and John Collins, working with the spotlight of the Land Rover, were out until about midnight. They saw and heard many flying-foxes (Pteropus) feeding high in trees of the Markham floodplain forest, and smelled cuscus, but were unable to shott anything. Young Jonathan Womersley proudly contirbuted a Rattus norvegicus trapped in the Womersley boyhouse. In the Botanic Gardens this morning I collected from the dead tree-fern stem supports of the outside orchid collection, 10 species of mosses, all but one of them fertile. One was almost certainly Octoblepharum album, which we have in Florida. At least as many sterile species were seen, and will be collected later. Recovered from Qantas my exposure meter case, which was taken out of our plane in San Francisco when seating arrangements were changed. The case was in the pocket of a seat which was removed from the plane.