Oomsis 35 Sunday, April 26. Rain again through a good part of the night. Fine day, turning a little showery late in the afternoon. Heavy rain early in the evening. The Markham River is up and this afternoon is running a couple of inches deep over the road in one place. Lionel Baker says this was the second Anzac Day in 9 years on which it was possible to drive a car into Lae. The Mark- ham always over the road at other times. Having much paper work to do, including organization of the Mt. Wilhelm flights, stayed in camp this morning and sent the boys out. They brought in six spp. new to the collection. Mostly regrowth elements. When it came to the point of my needing preliminary figuring on Mt. Wilhelm which I did in the U.S., I could not find the sheets. They are missing with a cost analysis of the expedition, a personal check book, and perhaps other papers. After preparing today's plants, John and I drove into town and I searched every likely place there without success. Was settling down to work after dinner when the Gunns drove up from Lae, with an air hostess (Jan Sargeant) with them. Was fussing around with them when the evening rain started with a sharp downpour which poured into my light trap, hanging under an African Tulip tree, before I could rescue it. An unprofitable 24 hours for me. Van had all the luck. Nothing traps, but two bats were caught in the nets at my fig tree, one of them the extremely rare Paranyctimene raptor, of which this is the sixth known specimen (3 including the type in Archbold Collection, 2 in the B.M. collected by Shaw Mayer. In the evening a Miniopterus new for this camp, if not the collection, was shot. This makes 21 spp. for Oomsis to date. Monday, April 27. Light rain through much of the night to about 4:30. Dull morning; ditto most of afternoon. Only a light shower or two before dark. Had John drive me down the road about 1½ miles to where a rather recently used logging road follows up a creek (tributary of the Oomsis) into what must have been very good Anisoptera forest on the lower slopes. Main logging road follows the creek bed for c. 1/3 mile to an old log paddock and loading ramp. Numerous short side roads up the slopes 100-200 ft. A good bit of remaining (unmarketable) Pometia and Intsia in the dipterocarp forest. Got a good lot of plants; 18 numbers - best day so far for this camp; 112 sheets ready for the dryers tonight. Especially interesting were a big-leaved Sloanea ? and a pubescent Ceratopetalum? of the substage layer, and what seems to be an Anonaceous small tree of the undergrowth with curious small purple flowers hidden under the rugose leaves of pendent branchlets, also a tall shrub or little tree of the undergrowth which has some of the characters of Mabaceae. A fine-cut Selaginella forms a thick ground cover in the forest on the little flats edging the creek. Traps yielded nothing last night; three Syconycteris in the nets. A bandicoot from somewhere. Another new Miniopterus for the collection was shot tonight; two other bats were brought down but could not be found.in long grass and brush. Tuesday, April 28. The usual dull morning, making botanical spotting difficult in the forests. Mostly clear in afternoon, and strong SE wind from early afternoon to after five. No rain. Black clouds over the mountains up valley; a normal evening occurrence.