April-2 Brisbane. A brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), found dead on the road within the Brisbane city limits, was preserved by Van Deusen. MacGowan arrived in Lae from Brisbane April 5, Hoogland from Canberra on April 7, and together they began to uncrate the expedition cargo sent from Canberra and New York. As was the case in 1959 John S. Womersley, Chief, Division of Botany, and Curator of the Lae Herbarium, very generously extended the use of the botany work-shed to the Expedition for the storing of specimens and working of cargo. Grierson and I flew to Port Moresby April 12; Grierson continued on to Lae while I remained in Port Moresby to consult with various Administration officials on Expedition business. Approval for the conduct of the Seventh Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (1964) appears in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea Government Gazette No. 14, page 310, 19 March 1964, published in Port Moresby. I flew to Lae on April 14. At a conference of the expedition personnel that evening it was decided to make the Pindiu Patrol Post the base of operations for the Rawlinson Range-Cromwell Mountains phase of the trip. The original plan to begin work in the Finschhafen-Sattelberg area was abandoned on the strength of an unfavorable report on the vegetation of the Finsch Coast based on aerial reconnaissance by Hoogland. Lack of suitable transportation was an additional factor in the decision. April 15-19 was spent in Lae organizing food and collecting supplies, obtaining firearm permits, and meeting Administration officials. Tobram, one of the two mammal boys on the 1959 expedition, arrived in Lae from Mt. Wilhelm via plane from Goroka on April 17. On April 16 I chartered a light plane from Crowley Airways to fly the District Officer D.N. Ashton, Hoogland, and 800 pounds of cargo to the Pindiu Patrol Post about 40 miles E.N.E. of Lae. The flight was made