Monday Sept 3: Beautiful fine sparkling day with strong SE wind dying down latein afternoon. No rain in the 24 hours. I had a disappointing morning down the creek which, with two main branches, drains the enclosed valley under Mt. Riu to the east of camp. Lionel reported a big stream"like the Lebadowa" on Normanby I found a creek not half as big, dim, gorgy, with a [illegible] bottom of slippery rock. Almost sterile for plants. However, on its banks a slender palm, common there, including a Calamus. This makes three [illegible] palm collected on the island. I have seen few moss [illegible], all sterile: a big Oranie, Linis- pallium [illegible] undergrowth species, & two spp. pf Calamus. Sent boys out in afternoon while I prepared plants on hand. They followed up Lionel's Camp well beyond the waterfall where I stopped a few days ago, and collected and collected several things new, including a big-leafed Marantauae(?) I had not seen before. Nothing in traps or snared last night, A Petaurus and a Pteropus jacked by Rus; one Miniopterus netted. Saw my first snake for this densely forested area, a slender black which Tubuga later collected. This morning he brought in a very large brown iridescent skink, the biggest seen on the trip, Two species of snakes collected here. Tuesday Sept 4: Clear dawn followed by a day of high overcast driving from the SE. A sprinkle of rain in mid-afternoon, another about 7:30 PM. My last collecting day in the camp. Climbed the leading spur towards Riu to nearly as far as old TIMITINABETA village site. Only 9 numbers collected, the most important probably being a small simple Sebizaen(?) (second species for the locality). Also collected a common Abvyc(?) - a canopy liana with warty dark stem. Am running a night shift with the plant dryer to catch up with a big lot of material on hand. No mammals got by traps, snared, bat nets (2), or Rus jacking last night. This morning Rus is unwell and only Lik-lik is jacking. Kim the cook, about the worst hunter in the world has done little else for two or three days but hunt pigeons (big blues). Got one bird yesterday and one the day before. None today and we ate bully beef stew for dinner, plus some sort of tree leaf that Kim gathered in the forest. Wed. Sept 5: A very strong wind sprang up in the early hours of the morning. Another day of high overcast & no sun. Light rain 3 PM.- 4, heavier after that. Finishing up a plant drying (there will be material still only partly dried to carry to the coast). & packing gear and collections. I have for the camp 203 num- bers including 27 & hepatics, & 47 sets of herbarium specimens. Not a bad gathering considering the poor flora of these unbroken rain forests. A mixture of second growth would have meant many more plant species. The camp has been poor indeed for mammals. About 150 traps out have yielded not a single specimen. I have never before seen trapping quite that bad. Results from jacking have been indifferent. Only 31 specimens of the following mammals have been taken at the camp: Petaurus, Pteropus hypomelanus, Phalanger orientalis, MacroGLOSSUS, Dobsonia. The slack time in mammals more attention being paid to herps.(?) Total 192 frogs, 5 snakes, 6 lizards (skink). The deep forest environ- ment is not favorable for reptiles. Insects, only a few specimens of butterflies and a few spp. of Odonata were takenLight trap material fairly rich in beetles, only a few moths. Best insect a fine Atlas moth smacked to the ground at night by Lionel,