Sunday March 18: Lay open on an excursion to Mt. Maranta about 9:30 & returned about 6:45. Traveled in Administration vehicles: a timber touring car, a jeep, a Land Rover, & a big jeep - like thing made by Stanley Personnel, beside myself, Tim Grummitt, Eric Pharo (entomologist from the Solomon's, specially interested in Hemiptera & scale insects), Ezra Than, Joe Spent-Brang, Gabriel Keleny (Plant Introduction Officer, & another Hungarian). Ken Hole, Bill Reed (Fisheries officer), John Wormesley, & one boy, Vince Sanders. Sanders has a lease of 600 acres plantation land where Pierre Philip & Co. had a coffee plantation said it have been abandoned in 1908. He also has a licence to cut timber on 35,400 acres, mostly open Eucalyptus forest. Ran forests in patches, including an Eucalyptus body in the thick, narrow valley of NARIGOGO Trek. Off Mt. Hembele on the Togean road above Pornea Talb. Continued in other vehicles to a yard & camp on Narigogo Rd., There was 16 miles to ca. 2200 ft. near the left of the range, where Saunders has a second camp. Walked from there to ca. 2400 ft. at the very treeline area that was the coffee plantation; Then forced back, chased by heavy rain. At the lower camp on the Narigogo, collected Torrent- kola or submerged a pinnate rocks & living tree roots. Mll. c.a. 1500 ft., finds Saunders. Photographed Dendrobium [illegible] at ca. 2000 ft. The Narigogo stream flows into the Taloeki River not far above Pornea Talb. Eucalyptus bicolornis, the principal tree of the open forest; E. confertiflora abundant locally; Togean dred gum, probably a form of E. calba, also present. Casuarina papuana? common locally on savanna, & in the fully rain forest. Banksia & Traville sophiana (?), also on savanna forest. Wormesley saw Castanopsis in gully forest at 2200 ft. Mond. Mar. 19: A very hot day, spent at Honedoba & doing business in Town. Tourist of Gisholt Fisheries, a wholesale fish department is called after a recent re-shuffle of the Dominion Fisheries, had no information on any of the islands we wish to visit. Henderson, Helinj Kirecta, Chief of 1893 collection, was as candid as it seems possible for him to be. His records