plossus was shot - by Lionel. They are difficult on the wing. Kim waited for them to settle in a fruiting tree. To dinner with Brother Grantwell this evening. We provided the blue pigeons for the meal. The mission has an excellent cook, but our Kim knows more about doing up pigeons. A game of scrabble filled in the evening. The game seems popular in this country. Sat. Oct. 27: A considerable amount of rain in early morning, before dawn. More or less showery day. Weather from about east. Botanized, for very little, the hills on the east north side of the valley of Wabu Creek. Have seldom seen so little flowering and fruiting in a forest. This is an off season for plants. The Flora is poorer than that of any of the other islands we have worked on. A mail in this afternoon by the mission boat "Morning Star" brought a new Leica camera from the National Geographic. The focusing gear failed long ago in the camera I brought out with me. Tomorrow will be out last day in Jinju and I will probably spend it largely in trying to get close-up pictures. The same results, or lack of results, from expedition trap lines. The hospital boy brought in only one ruber this morning (he has been using coconut as bait). Yesterday, however, the Methodist teacher, not to be outdone, asked for two traps to set in his house in the village. This morning he brought in 15 ruber and two [illegible]! He did not say how long he set up to make the catch. Lionel this morning, with a local guide, investigated a bat cave we have long known about. Really a crack among jumbled rocks, about 20 minutes up Wabu Creek. Crack narrow and hard to get into. Caught 5 small Hipposideros of the species we already have for the island. Called on Father Earl in the evening (he returned from Nimoa on the Morning Star). One thing discussed was the early history of the Catholic Mission in these parts. Nothing seems to be known about the end of the Marist mission which went to Woodlark about 1849-50. Recently, however, a priest visited the reputed site of the mission and, digging, unearthed a chalice which is now in Sydney. The inference was that the priest who probably buried it must have been in a bad way. There is a legend on Rossel that, long ago, a white man came to the island who made the sign of the cross. He had only a shovel, with which he leveled ground for a house. Finally he was eaten. Sunday Oct. 28: Some small showers, and much good bright sunshine. Several severe black squalls from the east. Stayed in camp to attend to collections and correspondence and sent my boys into the field, mainly to collect the gum tree (Vatica) of Rossel. This is the same species that occurs on Sudest. It is very abundant on river flats and the lower ridges at Abaleti, on the south side of the island. Here it is anything but common, and, as everywhere else where I have seen it, the leaves, especially of the older trees, are very badly eaten by insects. Botanical collections for this camp number only 93; a poor total for seven days of field work. Herbarium sheets number 620. As previously noted, this is an off season for flowering and fruiting, and the flora of the island is poor. It is especially poor in ferns and orchids, groups which generally are well represented