132 Purosa-Kainantu Friday, October 2. Foggy mist until about nine. Sunny day thereafter until about 4 p.m.; then clouded over from a thunderstorm to the NW; thick foggy mist in camp from between about 5 p.m. to dark. Stars shining tonight (9 p.m.) as they so often do until sometime between 3 a.m. and dawn. Finished field work for this camp by a third excursion up the road towards Okapa -- but in the forest near camp. Best taking perhaps an Echino- carpus and a purple-flowered Syzygium from the canopy layer. A prominent forested knob with very tall Gulubia palms on top which rises about 200 ft. above camp to the N. seems to have been the site of a former village, or, more likely, a lookout station in the not-so-long-past fighting days. Am working the second consecutive night shift on the botanical dryers in an effort to clear collections for a move tomorrow. Too tired to do summaries for the camp. The rapid deterioration of my "Fiber-velope" botanical dryers is giving me trouble. Another instance of the recent cheapening of a well known product which I have used satisfactorily for years. The dryers are crumbling into dust. The edges are breaking up and hindering the circulation of the hot air (from Coleman lamps) with which I dry my plants. Result is, already, often two days in the dryer when one day should suffice. There has been so much shoddiness in supplies for this trip that countries other than the U.S. should be considered when outfitting for any expeditions there may be to follow this. Have for this camp 289 botanical numbers including 28 bryophytes; 1417 sheets of herbarium specimens. Night flying insects, especially moths, turned up well. Diurnal insects were so scarce, due in part to the overcast weather, that after a time I gave up carrying a net into the field. For a bit over 6 months in the field I have more plant numbers than for the 8 1/2 months total of the 1956 expedition; have not quite so many herbarium sheets -- a number of high altitude plants are in short series. Van has a very good collection of mammals, about 80 bats from the Ilafo Cave bringing his numbers high. Total 307 specimens, 33 species. Included are 11 marsupials, 17 rodents and 5 bats. New to the 1959 collection are Leptomys and probably one of the four Melomys spp. Herps numbered 126 specimens; frogs 50 (c. 10 spp.), lizards 65 (c. 4 spp.), snakes 11 (4 spp.). Efforts to have native hunters, with dogs, bring in tree-climbing kangaroos and wallabies (we have bones of both) were without success. Saturday, October 3. Work on specimens delayed our evacuation of camp until 9:45, when we left Purosa Camp en route Kainantu. Called in at Okapa, partly on official and social visits, and for John to get something from the hospital for an infection on his face and behind. Van and I had morning tea with Dr. Clive Auricht and his wife Ruth. Auricht, in New Guinea for a year on a research fellowship, returns to Adelaide in 10 weeks to do his internship. Proposes to join the P-NG medical service after that. From Okapa we took the old (west road) to Kainantu. Wished to call on Maa, who was supposed to be camped in Moifa resthouse, 13 miles from Okapa on the old road. Also wished to inspect the country, and especially "magnificent" beech forest reported there. Mostly Castanopsis forest and mixed rain forest between Okapa and Moifa, but some big, scattered beeches occur with the Castanopsis,