over, but much emaciated, as if through a wasting illness. It is good to have these old boys turn up to say hello & romance with our present staff about old times. The journey down was only about 3 hours for carriers. Footing was bad on the steeper slopes and travel worse than on the way up. I had a lot of steps cut in the pale grayish soil of the main oak forest ridge. Much of the travel through second growth rain forest on steep old garden land up to ca. 1500 ft. Collected 18 plant numbers on way down, bringing the total for the mountain trip to 247, sheets 983. One of the Morima brought a fine Uromys, bought for 5/-, the first we have for this island. Tuesday June 19: Cloudy day, having rain between 2 & 4 PM. Collected on a grassland patch of up to 100 acres a short ½ hour walk c.a. N of camp & at perhaps 400 ft altitude. Treeless ridges except for a few widely scattered Depanchia trees (sterile). Grass burnt in patches: mostly Themeda, with a sparse sprinkling of Tulalia, Sorghum, etc. A little Emperorstain places. Herbs: Primelea, Stackhousea, , Buchnera, Mitrasacm, Cassia mimosifolia, Protalerie linifolia, etc. Doubtless man induced. As seen from our mountain camp. There are several similar patches in the neighborhood. Very hot on the open ground after two weeks in the mountains. Lionel, jacking last night, shot 2 cuscus, a sita sita , a Nyctimene: Kim a cusca, Rus saw nothing. Lionel, getting up at 4AM, bagged a wallaby on the grassland patch I later visited. Three Pogonomyrs bought from a native this afternoon for a stick of tobacco apiece. Four Bigistrellius shot this evening by Lionel & Rus. Wed. June 20: Cloudy on & off but only very slight, brief showers. SE wind. Clear last night. Botanized down the Govt. trail to LILAI Creek, then down the bank of the creek per- haps 1/3 of a mile. Most interesting plant was a Citamyrtus, a genus I have only seen on the mainland before. All collecting done in rain forest second growth usual Macarango- other species type. A big Levanthes collected; conspicuous by the umbrella crown of de- llicate Lionel, taking Tinker, left for KEDIDIA (GOMWA BAY?) Lionel Evennell has a 400 acre cocnut plantation) at 7:30 AM. Purpose of the long walk, partly to examine our proposed camp locality at DEIDEI, partly for a change of scene. Lionel has not had much physical exertion during the past two weeks & he likes movement. Lionel's jacking results last night were one Pogonomyrs, 3 Phalangers, 1 Petarus, 2 Bobsonia, 1 Pteropus. Tinker got 2 Proteamodon, 2 Pteropus. Rus shot & lost a couple of things. One big brown Rattus in traps. The skinning was somewhat lessened, however, by the loss of the 3 Pogonomyrs purchased yesterday. Rus left them on the skinning table last night & no doubt they were eaten by some prowling village dog. The day has been eventful in another way for the mammal department. Rus finds him- sell out of arsenic & alum. Not a left. As he is not sure where his supply is packed at Iamelele, he will have to go down there himself tomorrow. The journey there & back will be at least 10 hours of walking. Rus has busted the Context camera. Had rewind trouble and ended up with the shutter out of action. Thursday June 21: Having rain from a thunderstorm between 10:50 and 2 o'clock last night. Rain for about an hour mid-morning. Thereafter mostly constant. SE ( ) tonight. Rus, with GALUWINA carrying a blanket & some sandwiches for him left Iamelele as day was lightening at 5:45. Took 5 hours for the down journey, 6½ for the up. Is in fairly good condition, though tired tonight.