119 Kimi Creek Womersley and I collected along the logging roads of Thick in the beech and Castanopsis forest above the road. I went to about 500 ft. above camp level, to the end of one of the roads. Forest badly smashed by the logging operations. Trees cut mainly Nothofagus. Saw one big red-barked Dillenia on the ground. Much good timber has been cut down, out into logs, and left lying in the forest, apparently for months. Wednesday, September 9. The finest day since our arrival here. Sun and broken cloud, and a good bit of wind. No rain. Temperature in shade in front of my tent in the middle of the afternoon was 88 F. John Collins took John Womersley to Goroka after breakfast; Womersley returning to Lae by the Wednesday charter flight of the administration. Taking 7 bundles of my herbarium material to Lae for storage. Collins returned late in the afternoon with, as unexpected visitors, Dr. Morris Rapson, Chief, Division of Fisheries in Port Moresby and his 14-year old son Philip. The Rapsons, with John Barrett, entomologist, had just returned to Goroka from a 6-day visit to the lakes on Mt. Wilhelm. They flew in to Keglsugl on two Cessna charters, stayed at Dengalagu Mission, went next day to the lower lake where they occupied our camp, spent 4 days there. Two days of misty and rainy weather, two days fairly good. Object was to inspect the two lower lakes. Had a 10-man rubber raft (bomber equipment) weighing 45 lbs. Sounded both lakes and collected samples of aquatic life and bottom mud. Deepest part of lower lake 11 1/2 fathoms; of upper lake 27 fathoms. Temperatures: 53-55 on surface, less than 2 degrees lower at depth; upper lake slightly colder than the lower; temperature at outlet stream of lower lake considerably higher than lake itself. Rapson feels there ought to be a permanent camp built by govt. at the lakes for the accommodation of the frequent visitors. If fish introduction is made, he is in favor of some kind of salmon as the most profitable producers of flesh for size of the fish. Barrett collected insects and a few plants (plants for Lae). Rapson was in the Antarctic with the Discovery II in 1938. Has been in New Guinea since 1948. Thursday, September 10. Another fine day; little cloud; not so windy. Spent the morning botanizing up a spur a bit on the Lufa side of camp. All primary Castanopsis and Beech forest, with a sprinkling of an oak and other trees. Not much to collect except ferns, and most of these obtainable only in short series. Much disturbance by pigs. These Central Highlands carry too many unwashed, stinking people, and are one vast pig run up to the higher elevations. Rapson, driven by John in our Land Rover, departed for Goroka soon after 2 o'clock with the intention of trying to net fish in the Kami and the Bena Bena en route. Has a minnow seine and a bigger net with him. So far as I know (Rapson seems uninformed on the subject) there is only one species of fish known from the Goroka valley - an eel-tailed catfish which is also in the Wahgi. Rapson's interests are more in the production or exploitation of fishes than biological. For example, he has been sampling fish foods in New Guinea waters for years but has never sent materials to specialists for identification. He can not identify the things himself. In fact he appears quite one-sided in his knowledge.