seen, although the dead ones are numerous on the ground. Caught a large spider and a beautiful striated greenish weevil. First nearly full grown large land shell on Freycinettia at about 1000 feet. Followed east along flat topped ridge rather thickly covered with small trees, with fern 306 fairly abundant underfoot and on the trunks of the trees toward their bases. Moss 307 on the tree trunks; birds nest and tree ferns; and the lycopodium collected on Matuku. Came out on quite a treeless area - a high plateau, covered with low grass (very little plume grass), knee high ferns and scattered shrubs, stunted trees and wind swept Casuarinas (ironwoods). Among the grass one occasionally met lycopodium of the robust and "rat-tail" kinds; purple orchids (as collected at Colo-i-Suva etc.), the "Rose bud".shrub; Sida, yellow composit, and severals common weeds. Metrosideros polymorpha and the stunted trees. The green, striated weevil is rather abundant on some of the low scrubs, especially No. 308. Descended via east valley finding several waterfalls and quite a volume of water even high up. Large caterpillar on shrub at about 900'. Collected in lowlands between showers. Got specimens of two woody climbers. The one with the large pod is the one with the huge trunk which reaches a diameter, in some cases, of 14 cm. The other has the pods, twigs and stems covered with thorns and is most disagreeable to encounter. Joe Hicks (sailor) handed me a large green walking stick which he had collected on a fau tree. He said he also saw a snake. Mr. Beck contributed a large cricket, a papilio butterfly and some flat landshells. Very heavy wind, which has been blowing for several days, caused the schooner to drag her anchors about 250 feet nearly landing us upon a coral head.