with A. E. (Arthur) Davis, manager Bank of New South Wales, who took me to the Papuan Club. Saw there Frame and Bernie Ryan of B.P.S., Crisp of Steamship Trading Company, Alan De Groen, E. A. James, etc. All spoke of the earlier expeditions, especially of the Gube and her crew. An A.P.C. man said his company is spending Four and one-half million pounds on oil prospecting this financial year. Spoke with Ken Slater, Animal Ecologist (first a herpetologist) who has been in the west lately. Says he saw on the Bitouri River, a western tributary of the Fly, what he was pretty sure was red Wallaroos. Big animals and very red. Ridy savanna forest country. Is going back to collect a series. Offers the museum a male and female if he can get enough material. Slater has the Taipen from as far east in Papua as Rigo. The Papuan snakes is a new subspecies with red stripe down the back, rec ntly described by Slater. Sunday January 6: Breezy day from S.W. not so hot. Heavy thunder- clouds inland. No rain here. Had Dr. Dorothy Shaw (Plant Pathologist) to lunch at the hotel. Later visited the Public Library, then sat on the beach with Smith of Cadbury-Fry and his wife and small son. Smith came from the gold coast some 8 months ago. First visited New Guinea to look for a suitable area of land on which to establish a cocoa plantation for his company. This project was dropped for reasons I do not know. Smith now going to Rabel, where he will be stationed to look after Cadbury-Fry interests. New Guinea cocoa is of good quality, but has a "sharp" flavor. It is being used in Australia to blend with Accra cocoa. The Kerivat Experiment Station visitors are given a piece of chocolate made from Accra and one from New Guinea kernels and asked which they prefer. Most people so far have chosen the local flavor. The principâ market in Australia is for milk chocolate. Monday January 7: More or less overcast, cooler day with light rain about 5 P.M. into evening. A big day of official visits. Started with my air bookings with Qantas. They generously rerouted me to utilize my unused Samarai - Port Moresby return ticket from P. M. to Lae and back. Had to pay 15 pounds odd on the transaction. At Konedebu (Govt. headquarters) first called on forest dept. to see Director Jim McAdam, who was out. Then visited Dorothy Shaw at Dept. of Agriculture, and after that Director Dwyer, who was about to leave his office for a Land Board meeting. Found from him, however, that a permit had been issued for the export of our Zoological collections. Saw a copy of the telegrams (one to me, one to Collector of Customs, Samarai) and discovered that as a condition of export we were required to give the types to the P. N. G. Administration. Went then to Dept. of Native Affairs, where I saw first Julian, Govt. Anthropologist, then Director Roberts. The department had cleared our "antiquities" for export. Julius told me over morning tea that during the past year about 12 anthropologists had visited P.M.G. on special projects; his own work is practically confined to trouble areas. Roberts very cordial; spoke mainly off the expansion of government posts in the territories, think there are over 80 now. Finished the morning with a talk with Claude Champion, who is now