Gurakor Had very good collecting. Nothing outstanding, but quite a few species unfamiliar to me. I have 70 numbers for two mornings and a bit of an afternoon in the field. The oak-dipterocarp forest occupies a considerable area in the aggregate at about this 2000-foot level on the slopes of the Wampit Valley. It is a curious mixture, but we saw something similar floristically at our lower camp on Mt. Dayman in 1953, where a much less prominent dipterocarp (Hopea?) occured with the oaks above the lowland mixed rain forest. Van is having thinner pickings that at Ooomsis, but for two days he has 9 species which is pretty good for this country. Thursday, May 7. Light rain ran water into our tank about 10:30 last night. A beautifully bright morning, followed by a thunderstorm from inland between 3 and 4 in the afternoon. The country had been drying out somewhat; mosses were wilting on the trees of the ridges in the forest. Spent the morning in camp to finalize our stores order for Mt. Wilhelm. My boys, sent out to collect, brought in 10 species of plants new to the collection, mostly from the primary forest above us on the slopes. Included were two lianas which I can not place to family on sight, the first Saurauia and the first Cyrtandra for the trip. In Van's departments, traps yielded a gray-bellied Melomys and a Rattus exulans last night. He shot three small bats at dusk, got nothing from later hunting. Local natives , brushing a part of the Mission property, caught a bandicoot with great hue and cry and got a couple of shillings for it. Alan White sent up from the forestry camp 5 Pogonomys which had been cut out of a tree. In mail by the Works Dept. courier who comes up the road twice a week, were four or five very big-eared Hipposideros sent by Margaret Gilliard; they had been taken in a big cave about 20 miles north of Madang by Father Otto Shelley. Natives drift in two or three times a day with a lizard or a snake. The collections grow. Tonight the mammal total is 221. Had last night at the light trap the best catch for the trip; a good variety of beetles and tiny things as well as microleps. Sorni, having had a little basic instruction during the past few days (I carry a net in the field), did his first independent insect collecting this afternoon. He was driven in early by the rain but brought a very good catch of five spp. of Odonata including a splendid big damselfly with upswelt abdomen and wings of a rich velvety green. John Collins looks very sick and pale today and his head is in a great bandage. In Mumeng it turned out that there is only a "liklik" doctor, but the M.O. from Bulolo happened to be there when John reported in yesterday. Treatment for his abscessed ear has been hot fomenta and shots of antibiotics. This will continue tomorrow. John was driven down by Mick Leahy this afternoon and is back at Zenag tonight. Our getting away from Gurakor for Edie Creek on Saturday looks doubtful. And, this afternoon there is a note from Joe Havel with the news that Bob Franklin was away yesterday and could not be contacted about a house he owns at Edie Creek.