vines which do not bear fruit (P. edulis). A royal palm grows with coconuts at the old Government Station (which was the Kulumadeu School in the old days when the mines were flourishing". Visited the old Kulumadeu Mine, where the Neates have a battery or mill and at present are working a mullock dump at the head of the old main shaft. Using a 1 to 3 inch reduction nozzle made from a Ford truck axle. Dirt being processed in Huntington mill, corduroy concentrating tables, and Pedan pan. A Wilfrey concentrating table is being installed.Work being done by about a dozen Gosiagos. Sixty ounces of gold have been won in the last three weeks, which is very payable. The cyanide plant, which we saw at the base od the hill yesterday, is not being used. It was built to process the tailing dumps of the old mines. The dumps so old, however, that much of the gold has leached out. The climate so wet that the tailings are difficult to handle (they were carted to the plant by motor truck. During the last war there was a military station on top of Kulumadan Hill. It was a mobile unit, carried on motor vans. At the eastern end of the island, at Guasopa , was a military airfield and perhaps other installations. Apparently it was a big show. It was abandoned , and practically all buildings and equipment moved away, soon after the drive towards the Philippines began. Only one command ear said to have been abandones. The Neates collected five tons of non-ferrous metals from the field. Said to be a great development of roads and revetments. Looking out at the panorama which open from our house, from west to east, one gains an indefinable impression that this island is more a part of New Guinea then those of the Louisides. Perhaps it is the gentle contours of this west end of the island rising to mountains in the distant east giving a feeling of broad spaces. Saturday, Nov. 3: Threat of rain from a thunderstorm after lunch, but none fell in the 24 hours. The Olduse Range to the east gets much rain which does not reach us. Hot day on the cleared parts of the hill. Followed a track in the direction of Delosias Village (Decoyas of the 1-mile map) for over a mile, where we were in tall primary forest' on the broad crest of a ridge. Forest has a different structure to, I think, and we have encountered hitherto on the trip. There are many large canopy trees usually well buttressed at the base, but no continuous canopy , such as is usually present in tall rain forest. Ferns (Blachnum, Nephrolepis, Seleginella) provide a dense ground cover 2-3 ft. hich, at least as far from the track as I penetrated, a matter of only 20-30 yards. A fair-sized Cyathea is a common and conspicuous tree-fern in the primary and secondary forest. Not a rich forest by any means, but I collected 14 members, Nothing og great interest. Another social evening last night. Dinner at the Neates, then a showing of Kode- chrome slides made by Hugh Osborne and myself. Boys out jacking got one Pteropus hypo- melanus between them. Six briskly brown Rattus in the boys' traps; a big brown skink in Rus'. He has trapped very few mammals on the trip - I doubt if more than twenty in the 7 months. The natives say that the cuscus of the island is spotted. P. orientalis is recorded from here, in an endemic subspecies, but not maculatus. Also, accounts would seem to indicate that Dectylopsile is here, as well as Petaurus. The M.V. "Lochiel" arrived today with cargo end mails from Samarai. Sunday Nov. 4: A shower just before daylight; several slight ones scattered in AM; many in afternoon leaving fog in the valleys and at times on our hill. Wind back to light SE. Botanized a mile to 1½ miles along [illegible] an old vehicular road which runs SE to Busai, an old mining center 3-4 miles distant. Country a jumble of small ridges and hillocks, all covered with secondary rain forest. Practically the whole area appears to have been worked over for alluvial gold. A few tall trees, including breadfruit. An Aleurites, like moluccana but plain green on the under side of the leaves, collected. All the tall trees could be old secondary. These forests carry a great abundance of course but mesophytic forms on ground and trees. Many birds nests ferns and aroids on the trees. Saw only two palme, an unknown and the black palm (Caryota). There is