Nothing in traps. Another Nyctimene and two or three Macroglossus in the bat nets. Russ still pinning and labelling the bats collected Thursday in the Kulumalia Mine. All boys gave at least half day off. They have had a hard time during the past week. My boys had to finish their tree cutting. The mammal boys were sent out with the game-getter and some .22 shells to shoot a very slender blue-tailed skink common on the paths and in other open places. Plant collection for the camp: 211 numbers including 24 bryophytes, 1115 herbarium sheets of specimens. The locality is worked out botanically for everything within reasonable walking distance of camp. Collecting in the primary forest of the ridges has been excellent, many trees, etc. being in flower or fruit or both. The ravines have not been so productive. The flora poorer there, and no doubt it has been much interfered with, if not reduced, by alluvial mining operations over a long term of years on Ara or St. Patrick's Creek. A dipterocarp community is recognizable in the rain forest of the ridges. Oaks and Castanopsis form characteristic mid-mountain forest on the yellow-clayey points of the ridges, surrounded by by the mixed rain forest. Ferns rather than woody second growths occupy the extensive slopes which been face-worked for gold. The weather has been against the collection of day-flying insects; only one night could be called good for the light trap. So far in this trip we have had only one real swarm night for insects. That was in the mountains of Fergusson Island. More herps have been collected here than at any camp since Waikaiuna (about 4 spp. of snakes, several of skinks, one or more geckoes, and quite a number of frogs. Monday July 30: A sharp shower and much heavy kind during the night. Very windy (SE) again today, and a good deal of overcast, but also some sun. No rain. The ground in camp is beginning to dry. Our week's accumulation of washing was brought in dry this afternoon. Whitecaps showing on the sea off the Boiu coast, below camp. Boys, working in three relays, made short work of moving the cargo down to Grassy Point this morning. There remain this afternoon only Russ' mammal boxes, our beds, and cook's gear to carry down. Dick Gladstone promises to be at Grassy Point with his tractor and trailer at 8 tomorrow morning. Worked on a ten-weeks store order to send to Buntins. This will see out our work in the Louisiades. Will try to have cargo delivered on Sedent about the end of August. Boys, in high spirits, staged a mock raid on camp as they returned from carrying. Decorated with green leaves and ferns; carried wild ginger spears.