146 175 Was handed into the hands of Bob Hunter, who casts himself Tropical Tours. It is part of a ship play which I must pay to see. Hugh Fisk, formerly J. Moulton, called to see me. He has a camping trailer in Cairns. He is much interested in growing orchids. His father was a qualified mining engineer manager in an iron mine in West Australia. Has lately put out the world's biggest specimen of pitch bends, weighing over 2000 lbs. Tuesday Jan. 12 Fairly fine day & rather hot. Familiar here as my family as opposite or by Tanana, Pat. Morrisby & Rae. Was interviewed at the hotel by two young men from the Cairns radio station & made a recording on our walk in New Guinea, 15 minutes over the part & 16 meaning. Wrote my article of one experiment going wrong in the tropics in my "New Geographic" (but geophi can). Had to leave it off because of a fault with this morning. Could not unlock it when going through Tuscan on Tuesday. Flood Still Reed for lunch. He has been president of The N.A.T.C. Club for the past 3 years. We are now will have the full 3 club. Club will publish its newly brilliant to the club. Club has over 100 members, many non-resident, who pay only 10/- a year. Called on Dr. H. Thacker, pathologist, founder of the N.A.T.C. Club & now 72 years old. Has kept a lot in the past 3 years. Says the Club is a success and has been very good. Erica Stephen visited the "Tropical Objects" show at Cairns in Harbour Road buildings on the main front. One long room contains Hunter's own anthropological collection of many of the objects from the North Queensland Museum collection, mainly ethnological. A few numbers of mammals, a few from the AMNA, mostly local specimens collected by Baden Stephen & badly prepared. I got in charge keeps the room & came clean, but the inside is many of Hunter's poorly labelled cases on in a box with dust. Administraion charge 2/- for the Tropical Tours clearing my visit.