Visited The Queensland Herbarium in what was left of the morning, & in the afternoon the Queen- land Museum. The Herbarium - what I saw of it - still an untidy fire hazard of a great amount of material in brown paper bundles & Merrill unprocessed cardboard boxes - a lot of it unaccessioned & undetermined. Everist Tabb had not been cleared off for months, by the look of it. The scope of improvement since he became State Botanist nearly two years ago, but the only obvious one was a re-painting of the interior. Everist's normal junior assistants do the routine identification in agrostology, weed control, etc., leaving Stanley Blake & Lindsay Smith free to spend most of their time on taxonomic work. Blake is finishing off a revision of Melaleuca & is working on Blechnanthus, & a honey flora of SE Queensland. Smith is in the rain forest - Colani. Everist has proposed for official approval a hand- book of the Queensland flora to be prepared by Blake & Smith in 15 years. One of three new women graduate assistants is working as Librarian & is cataloguing & arranging the books & periodicals. Everist feels his own influence, but he is a fair wine. At the Museum the same old furniture order prevails under Graepe Mackie's direction. His only scientific assistant is Woods, a young geologist & palaeontologist (M.Sc.) who has been there three years. Oldham, previously of Papua, has been affording photographer within the last year a darkroom is in process of being filled out. Since 1953 two or three replica cases have been installed, & a new type - tried semi- diorama. The preparators need training in modern techniques. Brisbane now has a hot, pea population & street traffic has increased greatly in the past two