-6- Was interviewed by a Miss Jones (Saskat chewan), news gatherer for A.B.C. (Australian Broadcasting Commission). She told me of Stalin's death today. Saturday 3/7/52. Finished examination of patrol reports at D.S. & N.A. office. Find that application for export of ethnological material at end of trip should be made to District Officer, Samarai. Julius (anthropologist) tells me that the only stone monoliths he knows of are on the Trobriand Islands. This makes Morris' report of such stones at Kwato and Waga Waga more interesting. Sunday 3/8/52: With Dwyer, Mrs. Dwyer and their small daughter Judy, was driven to the Govt. plant introduction gardens on the Laloki River by Willis. Good dirt road, crossing the river on a steel bridge. Station well equipped with tractors and farming machinery. Good alluvial soil along the river. Did not have a chance to see much of the plantings other than a considerable acreage of kenaf. The best plots were well-grown and 8-10 ft. tall. Much in- terest in the crop in Papua. A company recently floated to cultivate it on a 15,000 lease on Oro Bay on the north coast (capital £ 80,000). Lunched with the Dwyers. John Womersby, arrived from Lae this morning, was there too. Tall, slender chap, moderately decisive, much interested in our work and in spending some time with us in the field. Would like to have his set of the herbarium collection before determinations are made. Gave Dwyer most of the vegetable and flower seeds brought from New York. New strains of tomatoes, hybrid sweet corn, etc., etc. A wild fiver plant he was much interested in on the bank of the Laloki looks to me like jute, probably naturalized. Monday 3/9/52: Flew to Samarai on Quantas Sandringham 4-motor flying boat 1/c Captain ______________. Take off 8:15 A.M., arrival 1:15 A.M. Weather clear and good view of coast and mountains. Mt. Suckling (11,337') and Goropu (ca. 12,000') look like prominences on the rim of a great volcanic crater, showing sheer faces of grey rock on its inner walls and much bare rock on the summit in general above about 10,000 ft. Our view was distant. Knowing my interest in Mt. Dayman, the pilot took me up to the cockpit as we approached and altered his course to cross the range to the west of the peak (our altitude 7,700 ft.) and fly around it. A massive peak, dropping off very steeply to the east (grey rock like Suckling). Rather smooth, rocky, grassy and shrubby or scrubby; gradual summit slope to the south. A deep high valley with swampy, grassy bottom and a winding stream, on west side. Rising white clouds blotted out the north slopes and soon the summit, as we rounded the mountain and I saw very little of that side of it. Much good forest below the summit grass on Dayman, and south slopes; and summit of main range to the west, completely forested. Given as 9,800 ft. on the maps, but looking higher, it looks like a good mountain for us, although , unfortunately I could not see the approaches, or vegetation on the north side, which most likely would be the direction from which we would strike in to it from the coast. Kept a lookout for a lake reported high on the mountain but did not see it. However, one of the other passengers (____ Carmichael) made out the lake quite plainly, he says, on the grasslands of the summit. He could not say on which side of the mountain, but it could hardly have been on the