120 Kimi Creek Missionary Wertz, carrying a very sick native woman to Goroka this evening, says that the weather at Gono improved about the time we left and has been good since then. Friday, September 11. Third successive day without rain, although heavy thunderclouds backed up in the afternoon. Mornings are always at least lightly overcast up to about 8 o'clock. Botanized in two gullies back towards Lufa in the primary forest for good results. The gullies are fairly rich in ferns and mosses; there is not much else to be collected. Added to the collection were a Dillenia common as a substage or subcanopy tree mostly in gullies. Another common tree of this category, a Garcinia, is with young fruits and without flowers and therefore not worth collecting. Canopy trees are few in this forest apart from the dominant Castanopsis and Nothofagus. Thought of breaking this camp and returning to Goroka on Monday, but today we hear that Monday is a holiday and we will stay here until Tuesday. Saturday, September 12. Day mostly overcast; heavy rain from a thunderstorm 2-2:30 p.m. followed by showers. This is all SE weather. Drove down the road to about 1/2 mile past the sawmill to sample the forests. Nearly pure Castanopsis forest there, with scattered, mainly small, hoop pines in gullies. Relic kauri pines up the slopes and below the road in gardens. Up the creek from the sawmill an oak (Lithocarpus with leaves gray below) is commonly mixed with the Castanopsis. A sprinkling of other plants not seen at camp level. It is difficult to get reliable information in this country. So many people speak with confidence on subjects they know little about. I have it recorded somewhere that the Guruka sawmill began operations about 4-5 months ago. Another informant at the mill today, who worked there for 8 months while the logging roads were being opened and the mill built, says the mill went into operation in August 1958. There has been nothing exciting to report in mammals for some time. But some two or three evenings ago an Otomops was shot, flying very high and straight, at camp. A very rare bat. This morning Van and John started trying to get it at daylight; about a dozen shots as the day grew light, but no further bats. Sunday, September 13. No sun at all today, but only a few sprinkles of rain. The usual clear night clouding sometime after midnight. Sent my boys into the field this morning, mainly to search for ripe palm seeds for the Fairchild Tropical Garden, while I worked on collections in hand. The boys failed on the palm seeds but brought in rather scrappy material of 7 plants new to the collection. I have from this camp 392 numbers of plants including 33 bryophytes and 2 lichens; sheets of vascular plants 1755. Consider this good for a stay of a day over two weeks. Collections were boosted by plants collected on Mt. Michael's upper levels. The forests of the camp area are more disturbed that appeared at first sight. The fine forest dominated by Nothofagus has been logged out on the slopes above the