of tobacco and the boys were issued only/apiece to give awayor with which to buy betel nut. Spare boy GALUWIMA sent to Iamelele this AM to get a fresh supply of tobacco from one or our locked boxes. Sunday June 17: Max. 23, min. 13 C. Frequent strong gusts of SE wind last night, some- thinig like Top Camp on Goodenough Id. in 1953. Light rain with mist 5:40 to ca. 7 AM. Sun & cloud ca. 50/50 after that. Day devoted to drying collection & packing for transport to Agamoia tomorrow. Some letters written. A small gray Rattus in traps. Lionel and Kim packed last night for no result. The strong south-easter will make landing difficult in the battery situation. the exposed Morima coast. Another complication in the battery situation. I have 229 plant numbers (including 49 bryophytes) for the camp. A nice lot of orchids and ferns Few trees in flower or fruit. The only well defined major communities are the oak forest in which we are camped and which covers the crest of the backbone ridge just above camp. On the ridge top these trees are only 30-40 ft. high and there is much moss on the trees & ground, especially in tented mounds about the bases of the bigger trees, which develop short stilted roots. The rain forest occu- pies the water-place ravines where an abundant testaceaceur undergrowth ( )is present. On the razorback crests of the higher parts of the backbone, to the east, the very mossy, stunted forest carries much small-leaved Xanthomystus (Descarpennium sp. as a subsidiary tree, but there are no oaks or beaches and the forest is perhaps a mixed rain forest of sorts. Two Rhododendron spp. (in fruit only) found in the very stunted Apparently the terrain above the oak forest is too precipitous & the ridge too narrow for occupation by either oaks or Nothofagus. I found Nothofagus on Goodenough Ferguson Islands & I hoped to find it here. One of the best things botanically is the fine Araucarie associated with the oaks on the crests of spur ridges (mostly lateral spurs) & which go down the slopes to probably 2000 feet. Including Dobsonia from the Morima coast, & other things brought in by native hunters, there are 42 specimens of species for the camp (Rattus/2) Pogonomy ? , Melomys, Dobsonia, Macroglossus, bandicoot, Phalanger, Petaurus. The locality has been poor in results. There was one good swarm night for moths. Very few butterflies were taken; only one big dragonfly; a good lot of damsel flies, mostly found in the forest far from water. Frogs have turned up well. Only one skink (like a sp. in y. the Normanly mountains) species found. No other lizards apart from a gecko jacked at night. No snakes. Monday June 16: Heavy rain 4 AM to around seven; rain was still falling when I left camp 8 camp with my twi boys to collect on the way down to AGAMOIA. Left t the mountain camp 7:50, arrived Agamoia 12:10, several smart showers on the way. Heavy rain after all carriers had arrived (c. 2PM - 3). Rain from SE. Good fortune was with us today. At 6:45 AM Tinker turned up with the 12 dozen bat- teries that have given so much trouble and entailed about 100 miles of travel. He had slept at UKEOKEO and a young Morima man was with him. Right Morima men and several small boys turned up a little later to assist in the carry. With these and over 20 from the AGAMOIA villages we had more than enough (had 30 loads but sometimes they were carried by 33 people). The carriers were still arriving at Agamoia when Galuvinna walked in with an 8-pound package of tobacco from IAMELELE. Among the Morima men was INOHOBI, our cook on the Fly River Expedition, beaming all