with exceptionally big flowers. Another good plant was a small Dischidia common as a root climber on trees near the beach. Nineteen mammals on the table today, including 7 Pipistrellus (not 5) brought in by natives yesterday An adolescent Uromys and 4 Rattus ruber in traps. Four Petaurus got from a tree by one of our boys. Three Pteropus shot at Kedidia by Lionel during the day. Rus has recovered well and is back at work. Deidei (Falagwa of the 1-mile map) has the most comfortable resthouse we have occu- pied on the trip. A dining room and three rooms, all small, which serve as bedrooms, a bathroom and a kitchen. Also a spring house nearby, barred in front so that only small dogs and pigs can get to the water. There is the usual barracks house for the boys. The most remarkable thing about the arrangements, which include a wash basin shelf in the bath- room and ample shelf space in the kitchen is pandanus mats on the floors of the bedrooms and living room. Have never seen this before in a New Guinea rest house. We have rigged a fly for mammal preparations and my two plant dryers. I work at a table we built on the front verandah. We also have a back verandah which serves for storage space. This appears to be a subsiding coast. All that I have seen is of hillocky broken coral rock, except about 1/4 mile of gray low cliff this side of Budoia which is a mix- ture of volcanic grit and rubble of some light-weight rock. Big old roughbarked trees; Calophyllum, Terminalia catappa, Barringtonia, lean out over the beach in places. Beaches of dark gray sand, narrow but only gradually sloping (low tides?) to shallows in which there is an abundance of a broad ribbon-leaved marine angiosperm collected formerly in Hollandia and Menapi. Narrow belt og littoral forest, semi-swampy and of uneven width in which Heritiera and Inocarpus edulis (the latter with remarkably fluted dark gray trunk) are prominent. Wed. July 4: Very heavy rain last night (over 5 inches on Kedidia gauge). Rainy morning. Clearing about 1:30. Sprinkles tonight, but weather seems to have changed. Have not seen the sun since Saturday. Rest house area under water this morning. Two inches of water in the preparations fly. Boiling water drinking water as the surface water is running into the spring well. Left about 2 o'clock on a visit to the hot springs area, about 15-20 minutes walk from camp. Had as guide a local man who later turned out to be from Goodenough Id., married into these people. He seemed to know the thermal well, but had I known his background I should not havd followed him with such confidence even the partial confidence I did. This ther- mal area very different from that of Iamelele. Very big boiling springs, but no smell of sulphur, and only clouds of steam rising. First spring area probably the most extensive, called #2. As far as I saw it consisted of a low, domed shield of resounding, cemented sediment through water boiled to the surface and above it in many places and there were holes and fissures down in which one could see boiling water. In other the cement shield had caved in, leaving dry holes, or just cracked concavities. In one place my guide d scratched about under a cornice and brought out salt incrustations (sodium chloride). At the spring highest on the dome an old man was splitting open and eating some Inocarpus nuts he had cooked in the boiling water, and my boys said he had also cooked a crow and eaten it (saw no feathers). Our laundry man boiled here yesterday. No. 1 spring area has a powerful spring which at intervals of a minute or so spouts to a height of perhaps 6 feet, with much steam. No surface run off, but below it is a terraced slope colored a rusty red as if by iron. Photographed that and the first area in the very bad light. Macgregor or some early writer) told of several springs in the area which spouted in geysers 60 feet high. Nothing like that now. Lionel tells me that recently a volcanologist made a study of the area and proclaimed the springs the hottest in the southern hemisphere. Hope to go back in good weather for more photos. To the north side of the thermal area is rain forest, to the south Melaleuca savanna with coarse grasses. Found stunted examples of Melaleuca (aff. leucadendron) flowering very close to hot springs. Along the grassy path were, among other herbs, a Stylidium with