-78- A blackish-brown beast, it is much smaller than members of the group seen to be in general. Tuesday, June 23, 1953. Camp activities now in full normal swing. Insects not turning up very well. Mammal department prospering with seven species for the locality to date, and a second tree-climbing Kangaroo today. Have more plants on hand than my drying apparatus can cope with. A sprinkle or two yesterday. Steady light rain all this afternoon and into the night. Now we have camp established it does not matter. The weather has been good to us. Wednesday, June 24, 1953: Max 25, Min. 12 degrees C. Maximum reading doubt-fully correct; must have a better thermometer house built. Last night by 9 o'clock the rain and mist had ended and stars could be seen through the tall oak trees around camp. An up-hill air drift this A.M., bringing mist at noon and drizzle lasting into the night. Ken and the councillor left for Biniguni early in the morning. Mail sent down to go to Baniara per Medical Orderly Frank who starts the journey tomorrow. Wrote Capt. E. Smith of Cape Vogel, owner of a small vessel, to inquire whether we can arrange a charter to move us to Samarai, leaving Balawa Sept. 10. This morning's field work produced the usual plethora of materials from a new locality. Many ferns, and a big-tree Metrosideros whose orange-red flowers make a blaze of color in the forest. Now that European food supplies are more plentiful and more varied, the fare is becoming increasingly English. With baking powder, which Ken omitted to send us previously, and dried apricots which were on order for 3 months, Kim has produced excellent tarts. This evening the pastry feature was meat pie (bully beef, dried peas and sweet potato). Thursday, June 25, 1953: Max 22, Min. 11.5 degrees C. Weather cleared before 8 last night. Mist in camp from 1:00 to 1:30 P.M. Otherwise a clear day. Worked on the east side of the camp spur to the edge of the deep valley of a sizeable stream which must be the Atairo. Proceeds included a remarkable nest fern with long narrow leaves (# ), a giant Gleichenia 10-12 ft. high, and two palms (Calvatrocalyx and Linospadix. Geoff with his two boys this afternoon started to cut track to the Atairo [?] and got to within short distance of it, 5 ridges east of camp. Mammal species for the camp now number twelve. #11 and 12 came in since 4 P.M. Antechinus caught by hand as it ran on the ground in daylight, and Pogonomys sp. grabbed from a tree by David when returning to camp tonight after shooting two species of Pseudocheirus. Mammal #13 came in after I went to bed - Hyomys, shot from a tree by David. Friday, June 26, 1953: Max. 23.5, Min 15 C. Clear early A.M., and no mist in camp until 1 P.M.; about 2 hours of drizzle and mist after that. In a gully to the west, at ca. 100 m. lower altitude, mist frequent during the morning, and