January 21: Returned to Toowoomba by rail motor to stay with the Andrews. Town prosperous and growing fast. Population now ca. 45,000. Second largest town in Queensland. January 22: Returned to Brisbane by Greyhound. Wednesday January 23: Traveled to Palmwoods by train to visit Sister Doris. Tedious journey of three hours. My first class carriage in poor state of repair and the men's toilet door would not open. The Queensland Railways are in a run-down condition. In afternoon drove about 20 miles north along the Bruce Highway through mostly closely settled farming country; pineapples, bananas (chiefly "ladies fingers"), sugarcane, dairying. Went through the towns of Nambour, Yandina, Eumundi and Cooroy. Highway good for the most part, but in poor repair in some parts, and in some sections too narrow. Thursday January 24: Back to Brisbane by car (73 miles by road). Did some shopping in town and in evening had dinner with the Walkers at Ascot. Friday January 25: Visited the Queensland Herbarium and talked with Everist and Blake. Blake doing Scleria for Flora Malesiana; should be finished by June. He and Lindsay Smith are then to work on my 1948 Cape York collection. About October, Smith, C.S.E.R.O. chemist Len Webb, and C.S.I.R.O. plant collector Jones (mainly drug development) are to examine an area about the head of the Escape River where in 1948 I observed from the air what appeared to be a large area of rain forest. Everist hopes that the Arnold Arboretum will agree to publishing a complete enumeration of by Cape York plants. Very desirable from a plant geographical point of view as my collection is the only important properly recorded collection ever made in the area. Visited W. D. Francis and Mrs. C. T. White on Kangaroo Point. Then said goodbye at the Queensland Museum. Mack had just finished a week's lecture course in natural history to an annual class of 30 school teachers. Tried to buy knitted woolen goods for gifts back home, but stocks are not opened until March. Saturday January 26: Visited the E. R. Humphreys at Camp Hill. Sunday January 27: Left Brisbane Eagle Farm Airport at 10 P. M. by Qantas and arrived Sydney 12:25 A.M. Some rough air, though sky clear. Staying at Wentworth Hotel (3-0-0 per day). Monday January 28: Australia Day and a close holiday. Shops all closed. Could not buy a magazine to read. Not much sleep last night. A couple of unaccustomed glasses of beer before lunch gave me diarrhoea. Walked the streets in the morning. A crispness in the air. Older women wearing long black coats of some light weight material. Very few men or women in shorts. Different from Brisbane.