[Diary, 6th Expedition to New Guinea] March 13, 1959 to February 21, 1960

MARCH 15.1959 AT 8:20 A.M. NADI TIME WE CROSSED THE THE I.D.L., "WE WILL FLY FROM SUNDAY INTO THE MORNING Monday Mar. 16 # LOSING 1 DAY THEREBY" Capt. E.W. Ditton H.M. Van Deusen SEVENTY-FOURTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION 1959 WOODS' AUSTRALIAN DIARY No. 27 Three Days on a Page John Andrew & Co. Printers and Publishers 21 PHILLIP STREET, SYDNEY

CALENDAR FOR 1959 JANUARY S ... 4 11 18 25 ... M ... 5 12 19 26 ... Tu ... 6 13 20 27 ... W ... 7 14 21 28 ... Th 1 8 15 22 29 ... F 2 9 16 23 30 ... S 3 10 17 24 31 FEBRUARY S 1 8 15 22 ... M 2 9 16 23 ... Tu 3 10 17 24 ... W 4 11 18 25 ... Th 5 12 19 26 ... F 6 13 20 27 ... S 7 14 21 28 MARCH S 1 8 15 22 29 ... M 2 9 16 23 30 ... Tu 3 10 17 24 31 ... W 4 11 18 25 ... Th 5 12 19 26 ... F 6 13 20 27 ... S 7 14 21 28 APRIL S ... 5 12 19 26 ... M ... 6 13 20 27 ... Tu ... 7 14 21 28 ... W ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... Th 2 9 16 23 30 ... F 3 10 17 24 ... S 4 11 18 25 ... MAY S ... 3 10 17 24 31 M ... 4 11 18 25 ... Tu ... 5 12 19 26 ... W ... 6 13 20 27 ... Th ... 7 14 21 28 ... F ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... S ... 2 9 16 23 30 ... JUNE S ... 7 14 21 28 ... M ... 8 15 22 29 ... Tu ... 9 16 23 30 ... W ... 3 10 17 24 ... Th ... 4 11 18 25 ... F ... 5 12 19 26 ... S ... 6 13 20 27 ... JULY S ... 5 12 19 26 ... M ... 6 13 20 27 ... Tu ... 7 14 21 28 ... W ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... Th ... 2 9 16 23 30 ... F ... 3 10 17 24 31 ... S ... 4 11 18 25 ... AUGUST S ... 2 9 16 23 30 M ... 3 10 17 24 31 Tu ... 4 11 18 25 ... W ... 5 12 19 26 ... Th ... 6 13 20 27 ... F ... 7 14 21 28 ... S ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... SEPTEMBER S ... 6 13 20 27 ... M ... 7 14 21 28 ... Tu ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... W ... 2 9 16 23 30 ... Th ... 3 10 17 24 ... F ... 4 11 18 25 ... S ... 5 12 19 26 ... OCTOBER S ... 4 11 18 25 ... M ... 5 12 19 26 ... Tu ... 6 13 20 27 ... W ... 7 14 21 28 ... Th ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... F ... 2 9 16 23 30 ... S ... 3 10 17 24 31 NOVEMBER S 1 8 15 22 29 ... M 2 9 16 23 30 ... Tu 3 10 17 24 ... W 4 11 18 25 ... Th 5 12 19 26 ... F 6 13 20 27 ... S 7 14 21 28 DECEMBER S ... 6 13 20 27 ... M ... 7 14 21 28 ... Tu ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... W ... 2 9 16 23 30 ... Th ... 3 10 17 24 31 ... F ... 4 11 18 25 ... S ... 5 12 19 26 ... CALENDAR FOR 1960 JANUARY S ... 3 10 17 24 31 M ... 4 11 18 25 ... Tu ... 5 12 19 26 ... W ... 6 13 20 27 ... Th ... 7 14 21 28 ... F ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... S ... 2 9 16 23 30 ... FEBRUARY S ... 7 14 21 28 ... M ... 8 15 22 29 ... Tu ... 9 16 23 30 ... W ... 3 10 17 24 ... Th ... 4 11 18 25 ... F ... 5 12 19 26 ... S ... 6 13 20 27 ... MARCH S ... 6 13 20 27 ... M ... 7 14 21 28 ... Tu ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... W ... 2 9 16 23 30 ... Th ... 3 10 17 24 31 ... F ... 4 11 18 25 ... S ... 5 12 19 26 ... APRIL S ... 3 10 17 24 ... M ... 4 11 18 25 ... Tu ... 5 12 19 26 ... W ... 6 13 20 27 ... Th ... 7 14 21 28 ... F ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... S ... 2 9 16 23 30 ... MAY S 1 8 15 22 29 M 2 9 16 23 30 Tu 3 10 17 24 31 W 4 11 18 25 ... Th 5 12 19 26 ... F 6 13 20 27 ... S 7 14 21 28 ... JUNE S ... 5 12 19 26 ... M ... 6 13 20 27 ... Tu ... 7 14 21 28 ... W ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... Th ... 2 9 16 23 30 ... F ... 3 10 17 24 ... S ... 4 11 18 25 ... JULY S ... 3 10 17 24 31 M ... 4 11 18 25 ... Tu ... 5 12 19 26 ... W ... 6 13 20 27 ... Th ... 7 14 21 28 ... F ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... S ... 2 9 16 23 30 ... AUGUST S ... 7 14 21 28 ... M ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... Tu ... 2 9 16 23 30 ... W ... 3 10 17 24 31 ... Th ... 4 11 18 25 ... F ... 5 12 19 26 ... S ... 6 13 20 27 ... SEPTEMBER S ... 4 11 18 25 ... M ... 5 12 19 26 ... Tu ... 6 13 20 27 ... W ... 7 14 21 28 ... Th ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... F ... 2 9 16 23 30 ... S ... 3 10 17 24 ... OCTOBER S ... 2 9 16 23 30 M ... 3 10 17 24 31 Tu ... 4 11 18 25 ... W ... 5 12 19 26 ... Th ... 6 13 20 27 ... F ... 7 14 21 28 ... S ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... NOVEMBER S ... 6 13 20 27 ... M ... 7 14 21 28 ... Tu ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... W ... 2 9 16 23 30 ... Th ... 3 10 17 24 ... F ... 4 11 18 25 ... S ... 5 12 19 26 ... DECEMBER S ... 4 11 18 25 ... M ... 5 12 19 26 ... Tu ... 6 13 20 27 ... W ... 7 14 21 28 ... Th ... 1 8 15 22 29 ... F ... 2 9 16 23 30 ... S ... 3 10 17 24 31

{ "text": "POSTAL INFORMATION\n\nPublishers’ Note.—Owing to existing conditions many Postal and\nTelegraphic rates may be modified or cancelled, but alterations, if any,\ncan be readily obtained from any Post Office.\n\nRATES OF POSTAGE TO DEFENCE FORCES WITHIN AND BEYOND\nTHE COMMONWEALTH.\n\nLETTERS.—1d. per oz.\nPOSTCARDS AND LETTERCARDS (other than those sold by the Post Office).—\n1d. each.\nPRINTED MATTER.—1d. per 4 ozs. (Parcels rate applies to packages weighing\nover 1 lb.).\nMERCHANDISE.—1d. per 4 ozs.\nBOOKS PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPERS.—(registered for transmission by\npost as such)—1d. per 12 ozs.\nParcels not exceeding 1 lb., 6d.; 2 lbs., 9d.; 3 lbs., 1/-; 5 lbs., 1/3;\n8 lbs., 1/6; 11 lbs., 1/9.\nThe mail matter must bear the Naval or Military rank of the addressee :\n—\nTo the Army and Air Force :\nNo. (if any), Rank, Initials and Name, Unit (i.e., Battalion, Regiment\nor Detachment). Name of Post Office. Name of State.\nTo Naval Forces :\nRank or Rating, Initials, Name and No., Name of Ship or Shore Estab-\nlisbment. (In case of Ships, “c/o. General Post Office.”)\n\nWITHIN THE COMMONWEALTH\n\nLETTERS AND LETTERCARDS.—4d. for 1st oz., 2½d. each additional oz.\nPOSTCARDS.—4d. each.\nSECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER comprising :\n(a) Commercial Papers (Maximum weight, 5 lbs.), Patterns, Samples\nand Merchandise (Maximum weight, 1 lb.), 3½d. first 2 ozs., or part\nthereof, 2d. each additional 2 ozs.\n(b) Printed Matter : comprising Printed Forms, Circulars, Calendars\n(max. weight, 1 lb.), Catalogues (which, subject to prescribed con-\nditions, may contain samples of material), and Books, Periodicals\nand Newspapers not registered at a General Post Office. (Maximum\nweight, 6½ lbs.), 3½d. first 4 ozs., or part thereof, 2d. each additional 4\nozs.\nTHIRD-CLASS MAIL MATTER, comprising :\nBooks, Periodicals and Newspapers registered at a General Post Office\nfor transmission as such (Maximum weight, 6½ lbs.). Single Volumes\n11 lbs., 2½d. first 6 ozs., 2d. each additional 6 ozs.\nNewspapers and Periodicals posted by proprietors to addresses within\nthe Commonwealth, 8 ozs., 3½d.; to New Zealand and Fiji, 6 ozs., 2½d.\n2d. each additional 6 ozs.\n\nEXPRESS MESSENGER SERVICE.\nPrepayment of special fee in addition to the postage secures immediate\ndelivery by special messenger. Minimum fee payable is 9d.\n\nREGISTERED POST.\nAny Postal Article may be registered. Subject to prescribed conditions,\nregistration provides for compensation in event of loss or damage :\nMaximum compensation £5 ; 1/3, £10, 1/6, £20, 1/9, £30, 2/-, £40;\n2/3, £50; 2/6 in addition to postage.\n\nAERIAL SERVICE.\nWithin the Commonwealth.—Articles (except Parcels), 3d. per oz.\nin addition to postage.\n\nPARCELS (Limit 11 lbs.)\nNot to exceed 3 ft. 6 in. in length, or 6 ft. in length and girth combined.\n\nWeight\nup to\n\nWithin\n30 miles of\nposting\n\nWithin the State but\nbeyond 30 miles of\nposting or to\nLord Howe and\nNorfolk Islands.\n\nElsewhere\nwithin the\nCommon-\nwealth.\n\ns. d.\ns. d.\ns. d.\ns. d.\n\n1-lb. . . . . . . . . 1 0\n2-lbs. . . . . . . . 1 4\n3-lbs. . . . . . . . 1 8\n5-lbs. . . . . . . . 2 1\n8-lbs. . . . . . . . 2 9\n11-lbs. . . . . . . 3 4\n\nCASH ON DELIVERY PARCELS.\nWithin the Commonwealth, including Lord Howe Island, Papua, Norfolk\nIsland, New Guinea and Fiji.—In addition to the postage, commission on\namount to be collected from addressee :\nNot exceeding 10/-\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE. To ascertain the progress of a call already booked or any other information respecting trunk line calls, or the numbers of country subscribers not included in the Telephone Directory, or to report any difficulty in the trunk line service, ask for or dial in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney, B072, Melbourne, M072, Adelaide L02. These calls are free. CALLS BY DEFENCE PERSONNEL. Private trunk line calls made by any member of the Defence Forces from a camp or training establishment or, when in uniform, from any Post Office in Australia, are charged half the usual rates. MESSENGER FEE. The fee is 6d. where the person called to the telephone resides within the usual radius of free delivery of telegrams; beyond that radius the portage fees for the delivery of telegrams shall be charged in addition to the fee of 6d. The appropriate Particular Person fee shall also be charged in each case. CALLS AFTER HOURS. Where calls to and from an Official Exchange which is not open continuously are made after the normal hours for telephone business, an additional fee of 1/6 is charged for each half-hour during which the Exchange is opened. In the case of a Non-official Exchange, a charge not exceeding 1/6 for each half-hour may be made. MONEY ORDERS. (When overseas Stations are available.) Within the Commonwealth.—1/- first £5, 6d. each additional £5. New Zealand, 4d. for each £1 or part. Minimum, 1/- . Plus exchange of 3d. in the 1/-. 5/- in the £1. Papua, Rabaul (New Guinea), New Caledonia, Nauru.—4d. for each £1 or part. Minimum, 1/-. Fiji.—4d. for each £1 or part. Minimum 1/- . Exchange, 1.6 pence for each 1/- or 2/8 for each £1, with sliding scale for portions of £1. 2/8 in the £1. Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Solomon Islands and Tonga.—6d. for each £1 in first £6, and 4d. for each additional £1 or part. Minimum 1/- . United Kingdom, Canada, Ceylon, Egypt, Federal Malay States, Hong Kong, India, Eire, Malta, Mauritius, Norway, North Borneo, Straits Settlements, South Africa, United States of America.—6d. for each £1 in the first £6, and 4d. for each additional £1 or part. Minimum, 1/- . Exchange 3d. for each 1/- or part, excepting Canada, U.S.A. and Malaysia. Other Countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and Islands adjacent to those countries.—6d. for each £1 in the first £6, and 4d. for each additional £1 or part. Minimum 1/- . Exchange, 3d. in 1/-. These are forwarded via London and are subject to an additional charge of 2d. in each £1 or part. Minimum, 4d.; or through another country when the additional charge is deducted from that portion of the value from the Money Order. POSTAL NOTES. Payable throughout the Commonwealth, Papua and New Guinea— 1/-, 1/6, 2/6—2d.; 3/-, 3/6, 4/-, 4/6—3d.; 5/-. 5/6, 6/-, 7/6—4d. 10/-, 11/-, 15/-, 20/-—6d. FIXED AND MOVABLE FEASTS, HOLIDAYS, Etc., 1959. NOTE.—Owing to existing conditions the actual dates upon which recognised Public Holidays will be observed in the various States during 1959 were not available when these Directories were printed. Jan. 1 . . . . . . New Year's Day Jan. 6 . . . . . . 1st Sunday after Epiphany Jan. 11 . . . . . . 2nd Sunday after Epiphany Jan. 25 . . . . . . Septuagesima Sunday Jan. 26 . . . . . . Anniversary Foundation of Aust., 1788 Feb. 1 . . . . . . Sexagesima Sunday Feb. 8 . . . . . . Quinquagesima Sunday Feb. 10 . . . . . . Regatta Day, Hobart Feb. 11 . . . . . . Ash Wednesday (Lent Begins) Feb. 15 . . . . . . 1st Sunday in Lent Feb. 15 . . . . . . Quadragesima Sunday Feb. 22 . . . . . . 2nd Sunday in Lent Mar. 1 . . . . . . 3rd Sunday in Lent Mar. 8 . . . . . . 4th Sunday in Lent Mar. 15 . . . . . . 5th Sunday in Lent Mar. 22 . . . . . . Sunday before Easter Mar. 27 . . . . . . Good Friday Mar. 28 . . . . . . Easter Saturday (Easter Eve) Mar. 29 . . . . . . Easter Sunday (Easter Day) Mar. 30 . . . . . . Easter Monday Mar. 31 . . . . . . Addit. Public Holiday, W.A., Tas. April 5 . . . . . . 1st Sunday after Easter April 12 . . . . . . 2nd Sunday after Easter April 19 . . . . . . 3rd Sunday after Easter April 21 . . . . . . Birth H.M. Queen Elizabeth II., 1926 April 25 . . . . . . Anzac Day April 29 . . . . . . Capt. Cook entered Botany Bay, 1770 May 3 . . . . . . Rogation Sunday May 4 . . . . . . Labour Day, Queensland May 7 . . . . . . Ascension Day, Holy Thursday May 9 . . . . . . German Hostilities ceased in Europe, 1945 May 17 . . . . . . Whit Sunday May 24 . . . . . . Trinity Sunday May 28 . . . . . . Corpus Christi May 31 . . . . . . 1st Sunday after Trinity June 1 . . . . . . Foundation Day, W.A. June — . . . . . . Observed as Queen's Birthday June 7 . . . . . . 2nd Sunday after Trinity June 14 . . . . . . 3rd Sunday after Trinity June 21 . . . . . . 4th Sunday after Trinity June 28 . . . . . . 5th Sunday after Trinity July 5 . . . . . . 6th Sunday after Trinity July 12 . . . . . . 7th Sunday after Trinity July 19 . . . . . . 8th Sunday after Trinity July 26 . . . . . . 9th Sunday after Trinity Aug. 2 . . . . . . 10th Sunday after Trinity Aug. 3 . . . . . . Bank Holiday, N.S.W. Aug. 9 . . . . . . 11th Sunday after Trinity Aug. 15 . . . . . . Hostilities in Pacific Area ceased, 1945 Aug. 16 . . . . . . 12th Sunday after Trinity Aug. 21 . . . . . . Birth H.R.H. Princess Margaret Rose, 1930 Aug. 23 . . . . . . 13th Sunday after Trinity Aug. 30 . . . . . . 14th Sunday after Trinity Sept. 6 . . . . . . 15th Sunday after Trinity Sept. 13 . . . . . . 16th Sunday after Trinity Sept. 20 . . . . . . 17th Sunday after Trinity Sept. 27 . . . . . . 18th Sunday after Trinity Oct. 4 . . . . . . 19th Sunday after Trinity Oct. 5 . . . . . . Labour Day, Sydney Oct. 11 . . . . . . 20th Sunday after Trinity Oct. 12 . . . . . . Labour Day, S.A. Oct. 18 . . . . . . 21st Sunday after Trinity Oct. 25 . . . . . . 22nd Sunday after Trinity Nov. 1 . . . . . . 23rd Sunday after Trinity Nov. 3 . . . . . . Melbourne Cup Day Nov. 11 . . . . . . Armistice Day, 1918 Nov. 14 . . . . . . Birth H.R.H. Prince Charles, 1948 Nov. 29 . . . . . . Advent Sunday Dec. 6 . . . . . . . 2nd Sunday in Advent Dec. 13 . . . . . . 3rd Sunday in Advent Dec. 20 . . . . . . 4th Sunday in Advent Dec. 25 . . . . . . Christmas Day Dec. 26 . . . . . . Boxing Day Dec. 28 . . . . . . Proclamation Day, S.A. Golden No. III. 1960. April 15 . . . . . . Good Friday April 16 . . . . . . Easter Saturday April 18 . . . . . . Easter Monday Bank Rate of Exchange on Interstate Cheques per £100. From— To Bris. To Syd. To Melb. To Hob. To Adel. To Perth Brisbane . . . . . . . 2/6 5/- 7/6 7/6 10/ Sydney . . . . . . . . 2/8 2/6 5/- 5/- 7/6 Melbourne . . . . . . 5/- 2/6 5/- 2/6 7/6 Adelaide . . . . . . . 7/6 5/- 2/6 5/- 2/6 Perth . . . . . . . . . 10/- 5/- 7/6 2/6 2/6 Within the State.—Queensland—General rates for country cheques drawn within the State and paid in at the capital of that State range from 2/– to 7/6 per cent., with a minimum of 6d. N.S.W.—General rate 2/– per cent. (with a few exceptions). Minimum, 6d. Victoria.—6d. for each £50 or part of £50. Minimum, 6d. Tasmania.—3d. for each £25 up to £1,000, then 3d. for each £50 or part. £50 or part. South Australia.—3d. up to £5; 6d. up to £50; and 6d. for each additional £50 or part. Western Australia.—1/- per cent., ranging up to 7/6 per cent. Minimum, 6d. Local rates are subject to fluctuations, particulars being obtainable at any Branch Bank throughout the Commonwealth. Standard Time at the principal places in the world when it is 12 noon at Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart. Subtract 30 minutes for South Australia, and 2 hours for West Australia. H. M. . . . . . . H. M. Adelaide . . . . . . 11.30 a.m. New York . . . . . . 9.0 p.m. Athens . . . . . . . 4.0 a.m. Oslo . . . . . . . . 3.0 a.m. Bombay . . . . . . . 7.30 a.m. Ottawa . . . . . . . 9.0 p.m. Brisbane . . . . . . 12 noon Panama . . . . . . . 9.0 p.m. Buenos Ayres . . . *10.0 p.m. Paris . . . . . . . . 2.0 a.m. Cairo . . . . . . . 4.0 a.m. Peking . . . . . . . 10.0 a.m. Cape Town . . . . . 7.30 a.m. Perth, W.A. . . . 10.0 a.m. Chicago . . . . . . *8.0 p.m. Quebec . . . . . . . 9.0 p.m. Constantinople . . 4.0 a.m. Rangoon . . . . . . 8.30 a.m. Copenhagen . . . . 3.0 a.m. Rio de Janerio . . *11.0 p.m. Leningrad . . . . . 4.0 a.m. Rome . . . . . . . . 2.20 a.m. Lisbon . . . . . . . 2.0 a.m. Rotterdam . . . . *10.29 p.m. London . . . . . . . 2.0 a.m. St. John's, N.F. . *6.0 p.m. Madras . . . . . . . 7.30 a.m. San Francisco . . *6.0 p.m. Madrid . . . . . . . 2.0 a.m. Singapore . . . . . 9.0 a.m. Malta . . . . . . . . 3.0 a.m. Stockholm . . . . 3.0 a.m. Mauritius . . . . . 6.0 a.m. Suez . . . . . . . . 4.0 a.m. Melbourne . . . . . 12 noon Tokio . . . . . . . 11.0 a.m. Montreal . . . . . . *9.0 p.m. Vancouver . . . . *6.0 a.m. Moscow . . . . . . . 4.0 a.m. Vienna . . . . . . . *9.6 p.m. New Orleans . . . *8.0 p.m. Washington, D.C. . 3.0 a.m. New York . . . . . . 9.0 p.m. Wellington, N.Z. . 1.30 p.m. Winnipeg . . . . . . *8.0 p.m. Yokohama . . . . . 11.0 a.m. * Denotes previous day.

SUN'S RISING & SETTING, 1959. (The times are to the nearest minute and subject to Daylight saving conditions.) Date Brisbane rises sets Sydney rises sets Melbourne rises sets Adelaide rises sets Perth rises sets Hobart rises sets Jan. 1 4 56 6 47 4 48 7 10 5 01 7 46 5 06 7 33 5 15 7 27 4 36 7 53 " 11 5 02 6 48 5 55 7 09 5 09 7 45 5 13 7 33 5 21 7 27 4 45 7 52 Feb. 1 5 21 6 43 5 17 7 01 5 33 7 34 5 55 7 24 5 42 7 20 5 13 7 36 " 21 5 28 6 37 5 26 6 52 5 44 7 24 5 45 7 15 5 51 7 12 5 25 7 25 Mar. 1 5 35 6 28 5 36 6 42 5 56 7 11 5 55 7 04 6 00 7 01 5 40 7 10 " 11 5 40 6 20 5 42 6 32 6 08 7 01 6 02 6 54 6 05 6 53 5 49 6 40 " 21 5 51 6 59 5 58 6 00 6 29 6 32 6 19 6 28 6 26 6 13 6 19 6 23 Apr. 1 6 07 5 46 6 07 5 50 6 33 6 13 6 35 6 11 6 38 6 02 6 27 6 02 " 11 6 13 5 36 6 13 5 39 6 41 6 00 6 45 5 59 6 48 5 50 6 37 5 46 " 21 6 24 5 04 6 43 4 59 7 15 5 15 7 07 5 17 7 01 5 25 7 21 4 53 June 1 6 35 5 00 6 56 4 53 7 32 5 07 7 20 5 11 7 14 5 19 7 38 4 42 " 21 6 38 5 01 6 59 4 53 7 35 5 07 7 23 5 11 7 17 5 20 7 42 4 42 Date Brisbane rises sets Sydney rises sets Melbourne rises sets Adelaide rises sets Perth rises sets Hobart rises sets July 1 6 40 5 04 7 01 5 56 7 37 5 11 7 25 5 15 7 19 5 23 7 48 4 46 " 11 6 38 6 05 6 59 5 01 7 34 5 16 7 23 5 19 7 17 5 27 7 43 4 52 " 21 6 30 5 19 6 56 5 08 7 30 5 23 7 19 5 26 7 13 5 34 7 35 5 01 Aug. 1 6 30 5 19 6 47 5 14 7 21 5 32 7 11 5 40 7 02 5 41 6 58 5 49 " 11 6 14 5 29 6 28 5 22 7 11 5 40 7 02 5 41 6 58 5 49 6 56 5 33 " 21 6 14 5 29 6 28 5 22 7 11 5 40 7 02 5 41 6 58 5 49 6 56 5 33 Sep. 1 5 59 5 39 6 01 5 43 6 28 6 07 6 22 6 04 6 22 6 06 6 21 5 55 " 11 5 29 5 48 5 35 5 58 5 58 6 23 5 55 6 18 5 57 6 15 5 47 6 17 " 21 5 18 5 53 5 20 6 05 5 43 6 32 5 41 6 26 5 44 6 25 5 29 6 23 Oct. 1 4 57 6 06 5 50 6 22 5 18 6 54 5 14 6 45 5 20 6 41 5 45 6 58 " 11 4 51 6 14 4 57 6 32 5 04 7 05 5 06 6 55 5 12 6 51 4 43 7 08 " 21 4 45 6 21 4 40 6 42 4 55 7 16 4 58 7 05 5 06 7 09 4 33 7 21 Nov. 1 4 46 6 37 4 37 6 58 4 51 7 36 4 55 7 23 5 04 7 16 4 26 7 43 " 11 4 50 6 43 4 41 7 06 4 54 7 43 4 59 7 30 5 08 7 29 4 29 7 50 We are indebted to the Sydney Observatory for these figures. PHASES OF THE MOON, 1959. BRISBANE, SYDNEY MELBOURNE, HOBART Jan. 2—Last Qtr. ... 8.50 p.m. 9—New Moon ... 3.34 p.m. 17—First Qtr. ... 7.27 a.m. 25—Full Moon ... 5.32 a.m. Feb. 1—Last Qtr. ... 5.06 a.m. 8—New Moon ... 5.22 a.m. 16—First Qtr. ... 5.20 a.m. 23—Full Moon ... 6.54 a.m. Mar. 1—Last Qtr. ... 12.54 p.m. 9—New Moon ... 8.51 a.m. 18—First Qtr. ... 1.10 a.m. 25—Full Moon ... 6.02 a.m. 31—Last Qtr. ... 9.06 a.m. April 1—New Moon ... 1.29 p.m. 16—First Qtr. ... 5.32 p.m. 23—Full Moon ... 3.13 p.m. 30—Last Qtr. ... 6.38 a.m. May 1—New Moon ... 6.11 a.m. 16—First Qtr. ... 6.09 a.m. 22—Full Moon ... 5.16 p.m. 29—Last Qtr. ... 6.13 p.m. June 1—New Moon ... 9.53 p.m. 14—First Qtr. ... 3.22 p.m. 21—Full Moon ... 6.00 a.m. 28—Last Qtr. ... 8.12 a.m. July 1—New Moon ... 10.00 p.m. 13—First Qtr. ... 1.33 p.m. 25—Full Moon ... 9.02 a.m. ADELAIDE, PERTH January— 2—Last Qtr. 8.20 p.m. 6.50 p.m. 9—New Moon 3.04 p.m. 1.34 p.m. 17—First Qtr. 6.57 a.m. 3.27 a.m. 25—Full Moon 5.02 p.m. 3.32 a.m. February— 1—Last Qtr. 4.36 p.m. 3.06 a.m. 8—New Moon 4.52 p.m. 3.22 a.m. 16—First Qtr. 4.50 p.m. 3.20 a.m. 23—Full Moon 6.24 p.m. 4.54 p.m. March— 2—Last Qtr. 12.24 p.m. 10.54 a.m. 9—New Moon 8.21 p.m. 6.51 a.m. 18—First Qtr. 10.51 a.m. 11.10 a.m. 25—Full Moon 5.32 a.m. 4.02 a.m. 31—Last Qtr. 8.36 p.m. 7.06 p.m. April— 1—New Moon 12.59 p.m. 11.29 a.m. 8—New Moon 5.02 p.m. 8.32 a.m. 16—First Qtr. 2.43 p.m. 1.13 a.m. 30—Last Qtr. 6.08 a.m. 4.38 a.m. MAY— 8—New Moon 5.41 a.m. 4.11 a.m. 16—First Qtr. 5.39 a.m. 4.09 a.m. 22—Full Moon 10.26 p.m. 8.56 p.m. 29—Last Qtr. 5.43 p.m. 4.13 p.m. June— 7—New Moon 9.23 p.m. 7.58 p.m. 14—First Qtr. 2.52 p.m. 1.22 p.m. 21—Full Moon 5.50 p.m. 4.00 p.m. 28—Last Qtr. 7.42 a.m. 6.12 a.m. ADELAIDE, PERTH July— 6—New Moon 11.30 a.m. 10.00 a.m. 13—First Qtr. 9.31 p.m. 8.01 a.m. 20—Full Moon 1.03 p.m. 11.33 a.m. 27—Last Qtr. 11.52 p.m. 10.22 p.m. August— 5—New Moon 0.04 a.m. 10.34 p.m. 12—First Qtr. 2.40 a.m. 1.10 a.m. 18—Full Moon 10.20 p.m. 8.50 p.m. 26—Last Qtr. 5.33 p.m. 4.03 p.m. September— 3—New Moon 11.25 a.m. 9.55 a.m. 10—First Qtr. 7.37 a.m. 6.07 a.m. 17—Full Moon 10.21 p.m. 8.51 a.m. 25—Last Qtr. 11.52 a.m. 10.22 a.m. October— 2—New Moon 10.01 p.m. 8.31 p.m. 9—First Qtr. 1.52 p.m. 12.22 p.m. 17—Full Moon 1.28 a.m. 11.58 p.m. 25—Last Qtr. 5.52 a.m. 4.22 a.m. November— 7—New Moon 8.11 a.m. 6.41 a.m. 15—Full Moon 7.12 p.m. 5.42 p.m. 30—New Moon 6.16 p.m. 4.46 p.m. December— 7—First Qtr. 11.42 a.m. 10.12 a.m. 15—Full Moon 2.19 p.m. 12.49 p.m. 23—Last Qtr. 12.58 p.m. 11.28 p.m. 30—New Moon 4.39 a.m. 3.09 a.m. (The phases of the moon are supplied by courtesy of H.M. Nautical Almanac Office) A Calendar for 9 Years, Showing Principal Feasts, Anniversaries and Holidays. 1959. 1960. 1961. 1962. 1963. 1964. 1965. 1966. 1967. JANUARY 1 . . . . . Thursday Friday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday Saturday Sunday FEBRUARY 1 . . . . . Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Monday Tuesday ASH WEDNESDAY . . . Feb. 11 Sunday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Tuesday Wednesday MARCH 1 . . . . . . Sunday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Monday Wednesday Wednesday GOOD FRIDAY . . . . March 27 Friday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Tuesday Wednesday EASTER SUNDAY . . . March 29 Friday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Monday Tuesday Wednesday EASTER MONDAY . . . March 30 Saturday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Wednesday Thursday Thursday APRIL 1 . . . . . . Wednesday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday ANZAC DAY (Apr. 25) . April 25 Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday Tuesday Tuesday MAY 1 . . . . . . . . Monday Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday ROGATION SUNDAY . . May 3 Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday JUNE 1 . . . . . . . Monday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday CORPUS CHRISTI . . . June 28 Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday JULY 1 . . . . . . . Wednesday Friday Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday AUGUST 1 . . . . . . Tuesday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday SEPTEMBER 1 . . . . . Tuesday Thursday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday OCTOBER 1 . . . . . . Saturday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday NOVEMBER 1 . . . . . Tuesday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday Thursday DECEMBER 1 . . . . . Tuesday Thursday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday ADVENT SUNDAY . . . Nov. 29 Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday CHRISTMAS DAY . . . Dec. 25 Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday GOLDEN No. . . . . . III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI John Andrew & Co., Printers, 21 Phillip Street, Sydney

31 Days JANUARY 1959 1st Month FRI. 1 January THURSDAY 1-364 CAIRNS DINNER WITH WEBBS + E. STEPHENS SAT. 2 FRIDAY 2-363 CAIRNS GREEN ISLAND LAUNCH 9:30 - 3:30 2 HRS. WITH SWIM GOGGLES SUN 3 SATURDAY 3-362 CAIRNS - BRISBANE - SYDNEY TAKE OFF 7:1 A.M. ARRIVAL 1:30 P.M. HYDE PARK HOTEL MON 4 SUNDAY 4-361 SYDNEY BANK, QANTAS, T.A.A., MUSEUM IN P.M. DINNER WITH ALLEN KEAST MAIL FROM HOME.

1st Month JANUARY 1959- 31 Days TUES. 5 MONDAY 5-360 SYDNEY MUSEUM MEASURED BANDICOOTS DINNER WITH MARLOWS: BASIL JOSEPH GUY MARLOW JOSEPHINE ("Jo") EMMA NICOLA "NIKI" 18 MOS. JACQUELINE "JACKY" 5 YRS. MOTHER OF "Jo" = MRS. EMMA SPICKETT "NANA" WED 6 TUESDAY 6-359 SYDNEY MUSEUM TALK WITH DIRECTOR, DR. EVANS MEASURED BANDICOOTS TOOK BASIL + Jo MARLOW TO DINNER (KINNILS) THUR. 7 WEDNESDAY 7-358 SYDNEY MUSEUM. STUDIED DENDROLAGUS MET ERNST MAYR, MRS. EVANS, LETTER (JAN.1) FROM IT. WROTE IT. + LEN. MUSEUM PERSONEL: JOHN BEEMAN + BRIAN BERTRAM - ARTISTS (DAVID RAE) ROY MACKAY + STEWART ROSS - TAXIDERMY KINGSLEY GREGG - GENERAL

1960 JANUARY 1959 31 Days 1st Month FRI. 8 THURSDAY 8-357 SYDNEY MUSEUM. RECEPTION IN DR. EVANS' lffice. LECTURE BY DR. E. MAYR DINNER WITH E. MAYR, ALLEN TEAST, CHISHOLM TOOK PICTURES OF DENDROLAGUS EX LAMINED TYPE OF P. BROADBENT I SAT. 9 FRIDAY 9-356 SYDNEY TO MELBOURNE PLANE: 9:45 A.M. - 10:45 MELBOURNE JOHN, ISH BEL + SYLVIA MET ME AT AIRPORT SYLVIA JULY 15, 1956 - 5 YRS. SUN. 10 SATURDAY 10-355 MELBOURNE MON. 11 SUNDAY 11-354 MELBOURNE

1st Month JANUARY 1959 31 Days TUES 12 MONDAY 12-353 MELBOURNE MUSEUM DINNER AT ANTONIOS WITH GUNNS. WED 13 TUESDAY 13-352 MELBOURNE MET JOHN THOMSON - DINNER TOGETHER, MUSEUM IN A.M., UNIVERSITY P.M. THUR: 14 WEDNESDAY 14-351 MELBOURNE TO HOBART 8:05 A.M. - 10:20 A.M. VIA LAUNCESTON SWIM IN POOL HOOKED AROUND HOBART TABLE TENNIS IN EVENING

1960 JANUARY 1959- 31 Days 1st Month FRIDAY 15 THURSDAY 15-350 HOBART WENT TO C.S.I.R.O. DR. DON MARTIN, HEAD, MR. MAX BENNETT TOOK ME UP MT. WELLINGTON. MET MIKE

1st Month JANUARY 1960 31 Days TUES. 19 MONDAY - 19-346 ADELAIDE WED. 20 TUESDAY 20-345 ADELAIDE MUSEUM THURS. 21 WEDNESDAY 21-344 ADELAIDE MUSEUM VISITED TREVOR SCOTT AT HIS NEW HOME AFTER DINNER. PAUL LAWSON + WIFE TO DINNER. MUSEUM IN A.M. VISITED UNIVERSITY IN P.M. - SHARMAN PHYLLIS PILTON

31 Days JANUARY 1959 1st Month FRIDAY 22 THURSDAY 22-343 ADELAIDE TO PERTH Smooth FLIGHT OVER BIGHT + NULLABOR PLAIN SAT. 23 FRIDAY 23-342 PERTH To ROTTNEST ISLAND. SWAM IN INDIAN OCEAN DINNER WITH McGANNS + HARRY BUTLER SAW MY FIRST WILD SETONIX -(QUOKKA)! SUNDAY 24 SATURDAY 24-341 PERTH HARRY BUTLER'S HOME - SNAKE PIT, PICTURES To UNIV. WITH H.B. + JOHN TELSALL VISITED ELIZABETH BAILEY. BRUSH-TAILS + DUNNATTS SPENT EVENING WITH TELSALLS MON. 25 SUNDAY 25-340 PERTH VISITED ZOO. MR. & MRS. LYALLS FOR DINNER, MET MR. SHEDLEY, PRES. BOARD OF TRUSTEES (ACROSS STREET FROM LYALL'S HOME)

1st Month JANUARY 1959 31 Days TUES 26 MONDAY 26-339 PERTH MUSEUM IN P.M., 3:00 MET DR. MEES (FISH, BIRDS) DINNER WITH DAVE + MARGARET RIDE (3 BOYS) AIM. WITH MRS MANING AT WESLEY COLLEGE LUNCH AT THEIR HOME, MR. M. GILBERT + SULLIVAN ACTOR. WED. 27 TUESDAY 27-338 PERTH TOOK McGANNS OUT TO DINNER AFTER CRABS AT HOME SPENT DAY AT MUSEUM WITH DAVID RIDE LUNCH WITH DR. HODGKINS. THURS. 28 WEDNESDAY 28-337 PERTH - ADELAIDE - SYDNEY

BARRY CALLISON (II): HORAN COLLISON (8) AT MILL TAN. 3 JAN. & FEB. 1959 1st & 2nd Months 31 & 28 Days FRIDAY 29 THURSDAY 29-336 SYDNEY TO UPPER ALLYN 32°10'S 151°30E Roy David Mackay, Basil Marlow + I SAT. 30 FRIDAY 30-335 UPPER ALLYN, N.S.W. SUN. 31 SATURDAY 31-334 UPPER ALLYN MON. 1 February SUNDAY 32-333 UPPER ALLYN TO SYDNEY Poor trap night

2nd Month FEBRUARY 1959 28 Days TUES. 2 MONDAY 33-332 SYDNEY TO CANBERRA PHOTOGRAPHIC SHOW AT ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, MET JOHN CALABY + FRANCIS RATCLIFF. TO HOME OF MAY DAY FOR COFFEE. STAYING AT CANBERRA HOTEL. WED 3 TUESDAY 34-331 CANBERRA SPENT DAY WITH JOHN CALABY AT C.S.I.R.O. WILDLIFE SURVEY SECTION. LUNCH WITH RATCLIFF. DINNER AT CALABY'S. 3 YOUNG BOYS, ANOTHER EXPECTED. FINE LIBRARY. WIFE MARGARET. MUCH TALK ABOUT A COMMON- WEALTH MUSEUM. JOHN GAVE ME HIS NUMBAT PAPER TO READ - A FINE EFFORT! THURS 4 WEDNESDAY 35-330 CANBERRA TO S. TO BRISBANE LUNCH WITH RU + JOAN HOOGLAND. SPENT A.M. AT RU'S OFFICE. MET ROY PULLEN (MT. WILHELM). JOHN CALABY WHO TOOK ME OUT TO C.S.I.R.O. AGAIN, FLEW TO SYDNEY AT 5:30 P.M. (6:15) LEFT SYDNEY FOR BRISBANE AT 8:15 P.M. MET MAN WHO HAS DONE A GLACIAL STUDY OF MT. WILHELM. ARRIVED 10:15 P.M. TO HOTEL GRESHAM,

28 Days FEBRUARY 1959 2nd Month FRI. 5 THURSDAY 36-329 BRISBANE CALLED ON KEITH TARROTT AT OFFICE. WENT TO MUSEUM. LOOKED AT BANDICOOTS, SAW JACK T. WOODS; HE IS LEAVING FOR JOB IN GEOL. SURVEY END FEB, DON VERNON TOOK ME OVER TO SEE MRS. MACHERAS AT Q.I. MED. RES. ONLY 2 BLOOD SMEARS POSITIVE. BACK TO MUSEUM - WAS GIVEN JUV. HYPSIPRYMNODON. TO VERNOVS FOR SUPPER. MET NEIGHBOR, MRS. C.T. WHITE, WHO INTER- ESTED IN FLOWER ARRANGING. MR. WHITE, FRIEND OF LEN'S. SAT. 6 FRIDAY 37-328 BRISBANE (BURLEIGH) OVERCAST DON + MAVIS VERNON PICKED ME UP AT 9:A.M. & WE DROVE TO BURLEIGH FOR A SWIM + PICNIC - WATER PERFECT, WENT UP TO DAVID FLEAY'S FAUNA RESERVE. THEN TO CORRUMBIN TO SEE THE RAINBOW + SCALE-BREASTED LORIKEETS (WILD) COME IN FOR THEIR LATE P.M. FEEDING. TOOK KODACHROMES, STAYED NIGHT AT BURLEIGH, SAW PICTURE "RALLY ROUND THE FLAG BOYS" - FUNNY. HEAVY RAIN AT NIGHT. SUN. 7 SATURDAY 38-327 BRISBANE (BURLEIGH) BEAUTIFUL DAY. HOT WALKED UP TO DAVID FLEAY'S. SPENT A.M. TAKING WALLABY PICTURES. MORNING TEA + LUNCH WITH THE FLEAYS. GAVE ME AN ACROBATES (YOUNG) AND A BRUSH-TAILED PHASCOGALE. DROVE ME TO BUS, SUPPER WITH KEITH TARROTT. DROVE OUT TO SEE TIM + CECILY FERNLEY FAIR MON. 8 SUNDAY 39-326 BRISBANE TO SYDNEY 11:45 ELECTRA TO SYDNEY. AT HOTEL WINDSON. BOUGHT BOOKS AT ANGUS + ROBERTSON'S, SENT "LIVING BIRDS" TO MIKE RIDPATH. TO MOVIES IN EVENING "IT STARTED WITH A KISS" - VERY FUNNY.

2nd Month FEBRUARY 1959 28 Days TUES 9 MONDAY 40-325 SYDNEY MUSEUM. PACKING. MAIL FROM KAY (Z) L. HUNTOON, BENNETT (HOBART) GOANA SALVE! DON MARTIN, UNPINNED SKINS. TO DINNER WITH B. MARLOW, H. COGGER. TO MEETING OF HERP, + MAMMAL SECTION, ROYAL ZOOL. SOC. N.S.W., MET ALEX HOLMES WHO WILL BE WITH PHIL SPALDING ON W.A. TRIP. WED. 10 TUESDAY 41-324 SYDNEY AT MUSEUM. PACKING WET SPECIMENS, LOOKING AT SPECIMENS, TO MARLOWS FOR DINNER. STAYED FOR NIGHT WITH NEIGHBOR; MRS. BEATRICE MUNRO, 10 MIRROOL ST., NARRABEEN NORTH MARLOWS AT #8. BRUSH-TAILED POSSUM CAME TO BAIT, THURS. 11 WEDNESDAY 42-323 SYDNEY QANTAS FOR TICKET AND TAX CLEARANCE, ANGUS + ROBERTSON BOOK STORE. MUSEUM TO ROY MACKAY'S FOR DINNER (MARGARET) - ONCE AT TARONGA PARK 1946-52.

28 Days FEBRUARY 1959 2nd Month FRI. MET TROUGHTON AT MUSEUM. 12 THURSDAY 43-322 SYDNEY TO SHEEP LAB AT PROSPECT TO VISIT DR. GORDON LYNN. SPENT P.M. TALKING BANDICOOTS, LIVE P. NASUTA. PECULIAR METHOD OF ROLLING FOOD WITH FRONT FEET (MICE + PELLETS). MEASURED OBESULUS SKULLS. TOOK JO + BASIL + ALLEN KEAST TO DINNER AT KINNEILS. FRANK LAMBETA - WAITER. TO HARBOUR TO SEE LIGHTS. HANDED BOX OVER FOR SHIPPING TO MUSEUM SAT. 13 FRIDAY 44-321 SYDNEY TO FIJI ALLEN KEAST PICKED ME UP AT HOTEL AT 8:30. DROVE TO THE KOALA SANCTUARY AT KURING-GAI CHASE. SWAMP WALLABY, VERY LARGE TIGER CAT. TEA AT KEAST'S. DROVE ME TO MASCOT. PLANE DELAYED 13/4 HRS, TAKEOFF 6:43 P.M., TO 32000 FT. SMOOTH FLIGHT TO NADI - 4 HRS. (WATCH AHEAD 2 HRS). FULL MOON. SEAT BE- HIND WING - CONSTANT ROAR OF JETS, LIKE WATER IN A TURBINE. FLY- ING AT MACH .8 (ABOUT 525). CABLE FROM LINCOLN - SARGENT VINEYARD TRIP! 13 SUN. = SAT. AGAIN! FIJI TO HAWAII SOME RAIN SHEETS COMING DOWN VALLEY. 14 SATURDAY 45-320 TAKE OFF 1:30 A.M. AFTER SNACK AT HOTEL MOCAMBO. WATCH 2 HRS. AHEAD, BEAUTIFUL NIGHT. SLEPT WELL IN 3 SEATS. WILL LAND AT HAWAII ABOUT 10: A.M. MET AT AIRPORT BY LOU ELDRIDGE + JACK TAY! VISITED LOU + TO'S HOME. WENT TO VISIT HER AT HOSPITAL. STUDYING AT UNIV. OF HAWAII. TELEPHONE TO K. BEAUTIFUL DAY 14 MON. SUNDAY HONOLULU 15 SUNDAY 46-319 SLEPT UNTIL 1: P.M. VISITED "TO" AT HOSPITAL. BABY GIRL. TO JACK + ROSE MARIE'S HOME. TO SEMINAR AT DR. BANNER'S HOME - POISON FISH RESEARCH. CROSSED EASTERN MT. RANGE BY CAR AT NIGHT.

2nd Month FEBRUARY 1959 28 Days 15 MONDAY 47-318 HONOLULU Took Kahili bus to Bishop Museum. Looked up Librarian MARGARET TITCOMB (63). Took to lunch, Met Director, Dr. SPOEHR; also 2 entomologists (1 Far). Dr. Gresset away Looked around Museum. Models of H. Fruit. 2 MTD Skeletons MESOPLodon GREYI + HAARTI (post card to T.C.M.), Old surf boards. Had dinner at a "Teahouse + Lily Pond Restaurant" Delicious Curried Shrimp. Jack + Mrs. Kay + Lucius Eldrege, (& 10: check). Visited "To" at Hospital. Toon battery beater. Visited Ala Moana Super Store. Bought wood bases for K, Rain + Sun 16 TUESDAY 48-317 HONOLULU TO SAN FRANCISCO Plane late. Car picked me up at Y at 11:PM. Did not take off until 1:PM, 2N A.M. I went to Waitiki and visited a Beach Hotel, The H. Everything hammed. No beach No waves. Flew at 33000 Ft. Saw other islands in chain. Arr. S.F. after dark. Staying at King George Hotel. Called Tim + Gretchen Reed, (&5 check - Qantas) Honolulu, 17 WEDNESDAY 49-316 SAN FRANCISCO Called on Tim R. at Bank of America. Cashed $200 check. Bought Hat. Tim took me to lunch at club. Bus to Univ. Cal. Berkeley. Visited Life Sciences Bldg. Saw Bill Libdicker, Dr. Stebbins, Dr. A. Miller, Jim Anderson (Tall-Grad stu- dent-Urner Club). Phoned Dr. Stirton. Caught ride into S.F. Home with Tim for dinner. Son Tim Jr. 1st yr. Lawrenceville. Son Charles (10) interested in Nat. Hist. Daughter Laura house about 16 (jr. at H.S.) Turkish girl staying with them. Lovely Evening. Home midnight by bus. Wood-paneled home-all on 1 floor.

28 Days FEBRUARY 1959 2nd Month RAINING 18 THURSDAY 50-315 SAN FRAN. → L.A. → LITTLE ROCK 4800 Ft. Up at 6 A.M., Caught 6:30 to airport, 8:1 flight to L.A. - much cloud. Snow on higher mts., Rented a Hertz car. Roads good, Arr. Little Rock 1:00 for lunch. Ethel (57) Luther (63) married 22yr 2nd marriage for both. Beautiful home at Juniper Hills. Aaron Willard long case maple clock. Lu has nature trail thru Joshua trees + Pinyon pines. Fire destroyed pines on Mt. above, looked thru "Little Museum". Bats + Birds + rocks + maps! Saw Kodachromes in evening. Showed N.G. too. Sleeping in guest cottage FROSTING OF SNOW AT BEAUTIFUL + COLD 19-20 FRIDAY 51-314 LITTLE ROCK → L.A. → SAN FRAN. Up 7:15 Cold! Clear. Last night's snow still on ground. Breakfast with a view to north. See Edwards Air Force Base. Hills to S. with deep snow still. Open + good road directly to airport. Left at 8:45 A.M. - Arr. 10:30 (89 mi.). Coach flight at 1 p.m. to hotel at 3:45. Telephoned Bob Orr. Tried Ivy Duce - line out of order. Called Dorcas + Cope McClintock. Took bus to Berkeley - had dinner with them at new home 2810 Prince St. Baby born June 8, 1959 Margaret Herrick. Cope drove me home. 20 SATURDAY 52-313 SAN FRANCISCO → NEW YORK Bus to Berkeley. Spent A.M. with Dr. R.A. Stirton looking at specimens and meeting students + seeing fossil material. Lunch with Stirt and then back to San F. Shopped in P.M., and to movies at night. Airport at 11:00 to catch Qantas jet to N.Y.C. Take off 11:45, fairly empty. 21 SUNDAY 53-312 NEW YORK Flew directly over Dottie + Bill's house. Landed at 7:45 (just 5 hrs., non-stop) - 3 hrs. difference in time. Hoby and Kay there to meet me. Home in an hour in H's new car to see Heather, Mimi and their new home at 22 Clinton Ave. The expedition is over!

2nd Month FEBRUARY 1959 28 Days 23 MONDAY 54-311 24 TUESDAY 55-310 25 WEDNESDAY 56-309

28 & 31 Days FEB. & MARCH 1959 2nd & 3rd Months 26 THURSDAY 57-308 27 FRIDAY 58-307 28 SATURDAY 59-306 1 March SUNDAY 60-305

3rd Month MARCH 1959 31 Days 2 MONDAY 61-304 3 TUESDAY 62-303 4 WEDNESDAY 63-302

31 Days MARCH 1959 3rd Month 5 THURSDAY 64-301 6 FRIDAY 65-300 7 SATURDAY 66-299 8 SUNDAY 67-298

3rd Month MARCH 1959 31 Days 9. MONDAY 68-297 10 TUESDAY 69-296 11 WEDNESDAY 70-295

31 Days MARCH 1959 3rd Month 12 THURSDAY 71-294 13 FRIDAY 72-293 (1) DEPARTURE TIME 23:30 BUT PLANE DELAYED BATTLING WINDS OVER NORTH ATLANTIC. LAST DAY AT THE MUSEUM. 14 SATURDAY 73-292 (2) DEPARTED FOR SAN FRANCISCO AT 03:00. LUNCH AT TERMINAL. MARY TAYLOR CAME OUT AND VISITED US. NEXT OBJECTIVE HONOLULU. SAW THE LIGHTS OF OUR 50TH STATE SOON AFTER 21:00. DEP. 23:45 FOR CANTON ISLAND. 15 SUNDAY 74-291 (3) E.T.A. CANTON 06:00. FRUIT JUICE + CRACKER BREAKFAST AT REST HOUSE. DEP. 07:00. 1300 MI. TO FIJI. CROSSED INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE 08:25. IT IS NOW MON., MAR. 16. 570 MI. S.W. OF CANTON. 700 MI. N.E. OF NADI (PRONOUNCED NANDI).

3rd Month MARCH 1959 31 Days 16 MONDAY 75-290 (4) E.T.A. Fiji 10:55. DEP. 12:15. 7000 MI. TO SYDNEY. E.T.A. 18:45. MET AT AIRPORT BY ALLEN KEAST + BASIL MARLOW. DINNER AT HOTEL WENTWORTH WHERE LEN + I STAYED FOR NIGHT. BRIGHT, SUNNY DAY. 17 TUESDAY 76-289 (5) SYDNEY LEN FLEW TO BRISBANE 10:45 A.M. I WENT TO BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES + OPENED ACCOUNT (MR. CURRIE). SPENT REST OF DAY AT MUS. 18 WEDNESDAY 77-288 (6) SYDNEY SPENT WHOLE DAY AT AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. SAW TYPE OF BROADBENT'S GIANT BANDICOOT; THIS IS OUR PERIA CREEK ANIMAL.

31 Days MARCH 1959 3rd Month 19 THURSDAY 78-287 (7) 1ST WEEK SYDNEY TO BRISBANE DINNER WITH DON + MAVIS VERNON. AFTERNOON AT QUEENSLAND MUS. 20 FRIDAY 79-286 (8) BRISBANE MR. T.G. BROOKS MET ME AT LENNON'S HOTEL OUT ON TRAM TO MUSEUM WITH ME. WHOLE DAY AT MUSEUM, EXCEPT FOR A VISIT TO QUEENSLAND INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH. MET DR. + MRS. (DR.) MACKIRRAS + DR. DOROTHEA SANDARS (MET IN 1948 AT MUSEUM), TO MONTHLY MEETING OF QUEENSLAND NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION. SAW KEITH TARROTT. 11 A.M. AT T.A.R. TERMINAL 21 SATURDAY 80-285 (9) BRISBANE VIA IPSWICH MET KEITH + JEAN TARROTT + IAN HILEY FOR TRIP + PICNIC TO GREAT DIVIDING RANGE (CUNNINGHAM'S GAP), + DARLING DOWNS. CHECKED OUT OF LENNON'S IN A.M. MET LEN AT MIDNIGHT AT T.A.R. OFFICE FEELING VERY WELL. LEN PHONED EARLY ABOUT OUR MEETING TONIGHT. PHONED MAVIS VERNON TO THANK FOR DINNER. SENT CAYLEY "WHAT BIRD IS THAT" TO MR. BROOKS. BOUGHT PEN. SENT ROLL #1 FILM HOME TO WARREN BUSH: LEN + I TOOK BUS AT 12:30 A.M. FULL PLANE: SUPER-CONNIE. TAKE-OFF AT 01:40. SAW COAST OF NEW GUINEA AT DAWN, ARR. PORT MORESBY AT 06:35 A.M. TO PAPUA HOTEL. JOHN WORTMESLEY + ALAN WILLIS MET PLANE; ALSO MR. + MRS. B. RYAN; LAURIE EDWARDS. BREAKFAST WITH JOHN W. OUT TO SEE TOWN AT 10. NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN DINNER WITH WILLIS AT THEIR LOVELY HOME, BOB BUNTING, MR. + MRS. CLAUDE CHAMPION, MR. + MRS. MGR: STEAM SHIPS TRADING CO. 22 SUNDAY 81-284 (10) ARR. PORT MORESBY - T.O.F.P.

3rd Month MARCH 1959 31 Days 23 MONDAY 82-283 (1) PORT MORESBY DINNER PARTY AT HOME OF "WINKS" AND ALAN WILLIS. CLAUDE CHAMPION PRESENT Up at 6:45 A.M. 24 TUESDAY 83-282 (12) PORT MORESBY WORKED AT KILA ON MAMMALS ALL DAY. ALSO A FLY RIVER TURTLE, (LEFT FOR ME BY KEN SLATER). TIM AT HOTEL DOOR AT 8: A.M. WITH LAUNDRY. LIK LIK AT DOOR ALSO, WAITING TO GO WITH ME TO KILA KILA 25 WEDNESDAY 84-281 (13) Pt. M. TO LAE, T. OF N.G. Up at 5:30 DEP. 07:15, DELAYED UNTIL 08:15. SHORT FLIGHT OVER MTS, TO LAE. JOHN COLLINS, OUR TRANSPORT MAN MET US AT AIRPORT.

Lennons GROUP OF HOTELS BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA MAR. 24, 1959 TUES. UP AT 6:45, MET LEN + JOHN AT 7: FOR BREAKFAST. KIM AT HOTEL DOOR AT 8: WITH MY LAUNDRY. LILIK-LIK AT DOOR ALSO, WAITING TO GO WITH ME TO KILA KILA. LAND ROVER CAME A FEW MINUTES AFTER 8: JUST AFTER ARRIVING AT K.K. LEN PHONED TO SAY THAT I HAD TO COME IN PERSON TO SIGN MY TERR. OF P-N-G REGISTRATION BOOK, SO IN I CAME TO MORESBY AGAIN. TWO MEN WHO HAD KNOWN DICK ARCHBOLD SPOKE TO ME. BACK AT K.K. AT 9:30. COMMUTING AGAIN! LILIK-LIK + I CHLORO- FORMED 2 CUSCUSES AND THE SLIM BLACK SNAKE, LILIK-LIK IS A GOOD Lennons Lennons Lennons Lennons George St. Broadbeach Coolangatta Toowoomba Brisbane South Coast South Coast Phone Phone Phone Phone Toowoomba FB 0131 Surfers Paradise X 2001 Tweed Heads 851 7711 Every Room has its OWN BATHROOM

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Lennons GROUP OF HOTELS BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA 3-24 CONT. SKINNER AND HE WORKS RIGHT ALONG. I MEASURED, SKINNED THE PHALANGER MACULATUS, SAVED THE HEARTS, MADE BLOOD SMEAR SLIDES (FIXED WITH METHYL ALCOHOL), AND CUT OUT THE VISCERA FOR PARASITES. WE USED ALUM ONLY ON THE SKINS. I ROUGH CLEANED THE SKULLS. LIK LIK SKINNED A PHALANGER ORIENTALIS: I WORKED THRU THE LUNCH HOUR AND THEN TACKLED THE FLY RIVER TURTLE. THEY HAD HIM IN A DRINKING THROUGH OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF A PADDock, HEAVY (40-50 LBS.) OVER 2 FT. LONG, I HYPOED IT FULL OF FORMALIN AND Lennons Lennons Lennons Lennons George St. Broadbeach Coolangatta Toowoomba Brisbane South Coast South Coast Phone Phone Phone Phone Toowoomba FB 0131 Surfers Paradise X 2001 Tweed Heads 851 7711 Every Room has its OWN BATHROOM

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Lennons GROUP OF HOTELS BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA 3-24 CONT. PUT HIM IN A BURLAP BAG. WE TOOK THE LARGER THALANGER MACULATUS OUT FOR PHOTOS, I THINK I SHOT SOME GOOD ONES. THEN WE CHLORO- FORMED HIM TOO. BACK TO THE HOTEL AFTER A PLEASANT GOODBYE. THE BOYS WERE VERY HELPFUL AT THE LAB (DESMOND PATTERSON, JOHN EDGERTON, TERENCE ROTHWELL). HOME AT 5:10 HOT AND SOAKED- TOO LATE TO JOIN ALAN WILLIS + LEN AT THE PAPUAN CLUB. SHOWERED + DRESSED FOR DINNER. WROTE THE JARROTT'S AND E. WILLIAMS - LETTER FOR INFORMATION ON TURTLES, WE WERE JOINED AT DINNER BY HORIE Lennons Lennons Lennons Lennons George St. Broadbeach Coolangatta Toowoomba Brisbane South Coast South Coast Phone Phone Phone Phone Toowoomba FB 0131 Surfers Paradise X 2001 Tweed Heads 851 7711 Every Room has its OWN BATHROOM

LONNANO GROUP OF HOTELS BRISBANE QUEENS AND AUSTRALIA [illegible] MOORINAH TWO

Lennons GROUP OF HOTELS BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA NIAL 3-24 cont. NILES, THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONER OF MOROBE DIST., WHOSE HOME IS AT LAe. HE OFFERED ME 4 SILA-SILAS (SUGAR GLIDERS) ON ARRIVAL IN LAE. AT 8 P.M. DAVID FEINBERG, WHOM I HAST SAW AT LUNCH AT THE MUS- EMU IN 1958, PICKED US UP TO GO OUT TO HIS HOME. A VERY PLEASANT EVENING OF TALK. DAVE HAS SOME- THING TO DO ABOUT REPRESENTING N.G. IN THE U.N. HOME AT 10:30 TO REPACK MY BRIEFCASE AND SUIT CASE FOR OUR FLIGHT TO LAE AT 8:15 TOMORROW. DRAINED MOST OF FORMALIN FROM SPECIMENS. NOW HAVE A CARTON OF WOGS AND MYRTLE Lennons Lennons Lennons Lennons George St. Broadbeach Coolangatta Toowoomba Brisbane South Coast South Coast Phone Phone Phone Phone Toowoomba FB 0131 Surfers Paradise X 2001 Tweed Heads 851 7711 Every Room has its OWN BATHROOM

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Lennons GROUP OF HOTELS BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA 3-24 THE TURTLE. THERE WAS A YOUNG LADY NAMED MYRTLE WHO WENT TO BED WITH A TURTLE. SHE GAVE BIRTH TO A PRAWN JUST BEFORE DAWN THUS PROVING AND PROVED THAT MYRTLE WAS FERTILE. (PER HORIE NIALL) I REALLY PICKED UP A LOAD OF SCRUB ITCH AT CUNNINGHAM'S GAP. PATCHES AS BIG AS QUARTERS. Lennons Lennons Lennons Lennons George St. Broadbeach Coolangatta Toowoomba Brisbane South Coast South Coast Phone Phone Phone Phone Toowoomba FB 0131 Surfers Paradise X 2001 Tweed Heads 851 7711 Every Room has its OWN BATHROOM

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(FINISHED ROLL #3 ON PLANE) Lennons GROUP OF HOTELS BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA Mar. 25, 1959 UP AT 5:30. TEE WITH D.C. HORIE NIA[illegible]. AIRPORT AT 6:45, A MADHOUSE. OFF FINALLY AT 8:15 (DUE OUT 7:15). HOW FLIGHT OVER MOUNTAINS. VERY LITTLE HABITATION ON THIS FLIGHT LINE. MET IN LAE BY MRS. WOTIMESLEY MR. MARTIN + JOHN COLLINS, OUR TRANSPORT MAN (LIKE HIM). BOB BUNTING LOANED US A LOVELY HOUSE. KIM + LILIK FLEW OVER WITH US. KIM WILL COOK (WHEN WE ARE AT HOME). BETTER IN Lennons Lennons Lennons Lennons George St. Broadbeach Coolangatta Toowoomba Brisbane South Coast South Coast Phone Phone Phone Phone Toowoomba FB 0131 Surfers Paradise X 2001 Tweed Heads 851 7711 Every Room has its OWN BATHROOM

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Lennons GROUP OF HOTELS BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA 3-25 FROM ITAY (MAILED MAR. 20). To HOME OF MR. & MRS. ASTON (SHE IS BOB BUNTING'S SISTER) FOR MORNING TEA. THEN TO GARAGE TO PICK UP LAND ROVER. TO BUNTINGS FOR BOYS' RATIOS. To DEPT. OF FORESTS WHERE JOHN W. GAVE US A VERY FINE WORK SHED. LOVELY SPOT. TO JOHN W.'S FOR LUNCH. TO POLICE STATION FOR DRIVERS LICENSE. NO TEST. TO WORK SHED TO PICKLE MYRTLE IN A TUB, HANG UP CUS- CUS SKINS, DRY SKULLS AND TAKE Lennons Lennons Lennons Lennons George St. Broadbeach Coolangatta Toowoomba Brisbane South Coast South Coast Phone Phone Phone Phone Toowoomba FB 0131 Surfers Paradise X 2001 Tweed Heads 851 7711 Every Room has its OWN BATHROOM

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Lennons GROUP OF HOTELS BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA 3-26 INVENTORY, SOME ONE HAS BUNGLED BADLY! NO CARGO, IT IS STILL IN SYDNEY IN BOND! ADDRESSED TO LAE. ARR SYDNEY FEB. 16! WILL CARRY ON AS BEST WE CAN. TECHNICAL SCHOOL WILL MAKE AUX BARRELL FOR A BORROWED SHOT GUN. HIO AMMO IS HERE BUT ONE BOX HAS NOTHING BUT RIFLE AMMO, A SHIPPING CLERK BLUNDER IN ENGLAND! TO JOHN W.S FOR A SHANDY (1/2 LEMONADE 1/2 BEER). HOME SHOW ER, DINNER AT HOTEL CECIL WITH JOHN COLLINS. HOME Lennons Lennons Lennons Lennons George St. Broadbeach Coolangatta Toowoomba Brisbane South Coast South Coast Phone Phone Phone Phone Toowoomba FB 0131 Surfers Paradise X2001 Tweed Heads 851 7711 Every Room has its OWN BATHROOM

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Lennons GROUP OF HOTELS BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA 3-26 AT 8:30, READ LETTERS FROM MANY OF OUR TERRITORY FRIENDS. COLLECTED 3 GECKOS + 1 FROG. THIS FROG IS NOISY + COMMON BUT SMALL. CALL A PERSISTENT RASPY CHU-CHU-CHU-CHU-CHU MONOTONE. THIS AFTERNOON JOHN W. SHOWED ME HIS LIVE CAGES - CUSCUSES, TREE TANGAROOS, BIRDS-OF-PARADISE, GOURA PIGEONS WITH THE VERY BEAUTIFUL BLUE FAN CREST; THEY ARE AS LARGE AS RHODE ISLAND REDS. WILL TRAP + MIST NET IN GARDENS FROM NOW ON. Lennons Lennons Lennons Lennons George St. Broadbeach Coolangatta Toowoomba Brisbane South Coast South Coast Phone Phone Phone Phone Toowoomba FB 0131 Surfers Paradise X 2001 Tweed Heads 851 7711 Every Room has its OWN BATHROOM

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31 Days MARCH 1959 2ND 3rd Month FAIR, WARM, SOME CLOUD 26 THURSDAY 85-280 [illegible] COVER. LETTERS TO: HDVD-KVD-VERNON- MACK- LEN AND I SHOPPED FOR CLOTHES AND A FEW COLLECTING SUP- PLIES. B.P. HAS BEST STOCKED STORE. BUNTINGS SMALL COMPARED TO SAMARAI. MR. MR. MARTIN. TOOK REST OF COLL. GEAR TO SHED. MR. DAVIS, CUSTOMS AGENT, TOOK MY SHIPPING PAPERS FOR TRAUB TRAP SHIP- MENT. TED HENTY MOVING CABINETS AT SHED TO MAKE ROOM FOR LEN + ME IN SHED. VISIT FROM JOHN GUNN (CUSTOMS OFFICE) - AMATEUR SNAKE COLL. SHIPS TO MELBOURNE ZOO (MR. WHITLAM, DIR.). JOHN + MARY WORMERSLEY GAVE A BARBECUE FOR US AT TED HENTY'S HOME. LOCAL CACAO PLANTERS. BEAUTIFUL MOONLIT NIGHT. FAIR, WARM, BLUE SKIES. 27 FRIDAY 86-279 [illegible] RAIN AT 1:00 P.M. (15) BEGINNING OF LONG HOLIDAY. INVITATION FROM DISTRICT COMMISSIONER + MRS. NALL TO ATTEND RECEPTION AT RESIDENCY MON. NIGHT TO VISIT U.N. VISITING MISSION TO N.G. BREAKFAST AT 7:45. SHED AT 8:30. LOOKED AT 3 NEW TREE-CLIMBING KANGAROOS. ENTERED SPECIMENS IN HERP CATALOG. 12 RAT TRAPS OUT IN FOREST GARDEN. 1 BAT NET. LOOKING FOR FROGS BUT WE HAVE NO DECENT FLASHLIGHTS. TRIED THE 2 INCH FLY 410S WITH THE NEW AUX BARREL - GOOD PATTERN. J. GUNN LEFT 2 SMALL BANDI- COOTS AND A LIZARD FOR ME. J. WORMESLEY, 1 SNAKE, 1 LIZARD. OVERCAST, WARM. 28 SATURDAY 87-278 [illegible] LETTERS TO: KISSAM ALISA HALL UP AT 6:00 - JUST ABOUT LIGHT. JOHN C. CALLED FOR ME AND WE RAN OUR TRAP LINE - NOTHING EXCEPT A TOAD. HEAVY RAIN LAST NIGHT. 1 SYCONYCTERIS IN NET - BADLY TANGLED. 25 TRAPS. 29 SUNDAY 88-277 [illegible] BIG BAT HUNT TODAY. JOHN COLLINS, JOHN HOWLETT (PATROL OFFICER - MT. HAGEN), DR. BILL SMYTHE, JOHN GUNN + MYSELF. OUT MARATHAM RIVER ROAD, 1 PTEROPUS, 3 MINIOPTERUS, LOVELY, SMALL NYCTIMENE IN NET. 25 TRAPS. NOTHING.

3rd & 4th Months MARCH & APR健康产业 1959 31 & 30 Days 30 MONDAY 89-276 Easter Monday 18 LAE THE DAY OF THE BIG RECEPTION AT MR. & MRS. NIALL'S (D.C.) JOHN W. + MARY CALLED FOR US AT 5:15. BEAUTIFUL LOCATION FOR GARDEN PARTY. HOME WITH W. FOR LIGHT SUPPER. JOHN HOWLETT WITH US. JOHN H. SPENT ENTIRE DAY WORKING ON SKINS WITH ME, 25 TRAPS - NOTHING. HIGH OVERCAST, AIR QUIET. LAE TO GOROKA 31 TUESDAY 90-275 19 "LEATHER NECKS" CALLING Up at 6: Airport at 7: Our first day of flying in the Highlands. John W., Len, + myself. A wonderful day! Staying at Goroka to - night (over 5000 ft.). Soft cool air. Flew up the Markham, over Wan- tort, over the Mt. R.- Ramu R. Divide, up onto the cent. High- lands (Aroma, Kainantu, Aiyura). Most interesting - Flight to Chimbu, at E. end of Wahgi Valley. Took many pictures. Just a few miles from Mt. Wilhelm. In P.M. Jeep trip to Mt. Otto - Logging Camp (7000) Michael + Rod Collins. Fine location for mammals. Bought passion fruit. High Clouds. Took pict. of Mt. Michael. Letter to it. April WEDNESDAY 91-274 20 GOROKA TO LAE Lovely cool night for sleeping. Met D.C. Wm. Seel - much to do with MINJE Putting new roads thru Eastern Highlands. Off for Mt. Hagen after some delay. Flew along S. slopes of Mt. Wilhelm. Saw Kegelsugel MINJE Air strip where we will land later in trip. At Mt. Hagen, we found Fred Shaw Meyer waiting to visit us (had driven over from Nondugl). We liked him! Gave us collecting localities. Tea at the A.D.O.'s Took many pictures. Flew to Mt. Hagen where A.D.O. Ian Symon had usurt lunch. More pictures of bush dressed people. Some of the rigs are fantastic! Left in rainstorm for Goroka. Good views of Wahgi River Valley. Storm closing in, so we took off promptly + flew over a pass to N. into Markham Valley. Landed home in LAE 5:30 Passion fruit drink at J.W.'s. Hot! Letter from K.

30 Days LAE APRIL 1959 4th Month SUNNY, HOT, HUMID 2 THURSDAY 92-273 (21) 3RD WEEK 2 PAGS. FROM G.MACK CARGO STORY FINALLY STRAIGHTENED OUT. WILL LEAVE SYDNEY ON SHANGSI TOMORROW. BOUGHT 10DOZ. RATTRAPS. 34 OUT TONIGHT IN BIG SCRUB BACK OF MRS. TENSEN'S (MRS. MURPHY HAS ROAD STORE). J.T. COLLINS + I SHOT 1 PIPISTRELLUS TONIGHT OVER STREAM THERE. MR KNOBLETTE SHOWED US HOW THEY PROCESS COCOA, TO TECHNICAL TRAINING SCHOOL TO NOTCH + SHORTEN AUX BARREL. RAY OBERG - HEAD, MR. HAINES - MACHINE SHOP. GUN PERMIT. 2 PKGS. OF TOW, WIRE + 1 HEAD LAMP FROM G.MACK - A GODSEND! DR.+ MRS. SMYTHE, MR+ MRS. GUNN VISITED LAE TO BULOLO 3 FRIDAY 93-272 (42) SUNNY WROTE: MR. MACK MADE UP BAT, ORGANIZED COLLECTIONS. PACKED FOR TRIP. OFF AT 2:30 P.M. JOHN W., MARY + CHILDREN IN THEIR CAR. A 75 MILE TRIP TO BULOLO BUT TAKES FROM 3-4 HRS. OVER SINGLE TRACK WINDING MOUNTAIN ROAD. RUGGED VALLEYS SPILLING OVER WITH LUSH RAIN FOREST. PASSED ZENAG AT 55 MILES - HOME OF MR + MRS. MICK LEAHY. ROLLING GRASS COUNTRY - NOT MUCH FOR EST. INTO THE BULOLO VALLEY - DESOLATED BY GOLD DREDGES. OUT FOR BATS - NONE! STAYING AT A MOTEL TYPE HOTEL MT. MISIM ACROSS VALLEY. BULOKO + WAU 4 SATURDAY 94-271 (23) UP FOR EARLY START TO WAU + THE CLIMB UP THE MOUNTAIN TO OLD GOLD TOWN OF FADIE CREEK. THE GORGE OF THE BULOLO R. TO WAU VALLEY STEEP THINED WITH BEAUTIFUL "PINES" - ARAUCARIA. ROVER WITH J. COLLINS DRIVING WENT ALMOST TO TOP OF MOUNTAIN (8000 FT.). OAK + SOUTHERN BEECH: (PICNIC LUNCH; PLANT COLLECTING; PICTURES; SHOT LARGE MINIOPTERUS WROTE: JOHN GUNN BULOLO TO LAE. OUR 24. 5 SUNDAY 95-270 (24) DROVE UP INTO THE BULOLO TIMBER LEASE. LEN + JOHN W. COLLECTED. SHOT A FEW PICTURES. "PINE IS CUT OUT + LAND CLEAN CUT. SEEDLINGS PLANTED: AMAZING GROWTH IN 7 YEARS (OLDEST SEEN). CALLED ON TOM BAYLISS - OLD GOLD PROSPECTOR. GAVE US A STONE MILL. PASSED ZENAG IN TERRIFIC DOWNPOUR. LAE 7:30, 256 MILES

4th Month APRIL 1959 30 Days FOUND STORE THAT SELLS MOSTLY FAIR, WARM: FRESH ORANGE JUICE. 6 MONDAY 96-269 (25) LAE, LENT OUT IN P.M. JOHN + I SHOPPED IN TOWN FOR SUPPLIES FOR 1ST CAMP MOST OF A.M. Lent putting up his plants from weekend. JOHN + I DROVE OUT 5-6 MILES N.W. OF LAE TO OLD ARMY SUPPLY D四方 IN FOREST. Found many ROADS IN 2ND FOREST AND SOME EXCELLENT 1° FOREST. 34 TRAPS OUT, NO NETS. SHOT I PIP, OVER CREEK BOTTOM - PIPS CAN BE VERY DIFF- ICULT! JOHN + I RETURNED AFTER DINNER AND HACKED FOR 2 1/2 HOURS, I SAW I SILA SILA (SUGAR GLIDER) BUT NO CHANCE. SHOT A PTEROPUS NEO- HIBERNICUS - WINGSWEARD 5 FT. 1/4 INCH! ELY #4 (12 GA), NOT A BAD CARTRIDGE. CLOUDY - WINDY (CYCLONE IN CORAL SEA) (26) 7 TUESDAY 97-268 LA E → ZENAG → LAE (L→Z 52M) (2+M 5m) NOTHING BUT Z SHINKTS IN 34 TRAPS IN LOWLAND RAIN FOREST 5 MI. N.W. of LAE. Pickled Pip, Lilt Lik SKINNED OUT FLYING FOX. JOHN + I LEFT FOR ZENAG AT 10:30 A.M., ARRIVED FOR LUNCH AT 12:45. MR.+ MRS, BEST, RICHARD LEAHY, PHILIP L., MEGAN TANE (4). R.L. HAD 5 PICKLED BATS (HIPPOSIDERS) ; FOUND UNDER BANANA LEAVES BY NATIVES. Bought a sugar glider WAMPIT R. GORGE (3000 FT.). Met Mr.+ Mrs. MARK SHULTZ - ARRANGED TO STAY AT THEIR CABENSIS HOME. VISITED LUTHERAN MISSION AT GURAKOR (REV.+MRS. GEORGE HORTOLT). WILL CAMP HERE IN MAY. SAW JENKINS AT FORESTRY CAMP. HOME AT 7:30 CARDS: IAT + HELENA FAIR AGAIN AFTER HAVING OUTER8 WEDNESDAY 98-267 (27) LAE. || CYCLONE. (FRIDGE OF CORAL SEA) After lunch JOHN C., HIS BROTHER JOE, + I WENT OUT ON ROADS NORTH OF LAE. CLIMBED ON TAP SHIP, ISOMBED + GROUNDED DURING WAR. NATIVE HOSPITAL ON BUSU RIVER. STOPPED AT LUTHERAN MISSION, MET A MR. CONLOW WHO GAVE US PERMISSION TO HACK ON THEIR CO- CO NUT PLANTATION. VISITED MANAGER - GEORGE KNOPHE. WING SHOOTING BATS AT KELLEY'S PLACE - NO LUCK. DINNER WITH THE GUNNS - VERY PLEASANT. SAW HIS SNAKES. At 9:30 P.M. WE DROVE OUT TO PLANTATION. I SHOT A SILA-SILA (SUGAR GLIDER) IN FIRST 5 MINUTES. JOHN ALSO GOT ONE. JOHN + JOE JUMPED A BAND, COO + RAN IT DOWN IN THE LONG GRASS! SAW DOBSONIA: A VERY GOOD EFFORT. T. GUNN + LAE'S DENTIST WERE ALONG. MET A MR. LAYTON (BULULO GOLD). SEE W.D. NEILL AT SUNSHINE FOR VERTEBRATE FO won.

30 Days APRIL 1959 4th Month LETTER: VAN GELDER, MARY TAYLOR. NO TACKING, NO WING-SHOTTING. 9 THURSDAY 99-266 (28) LAE HARD RAIN 9:45 P.M. OVERCAST ALL DAY. RAIN FROM 5 P.M. ON. GOOD LUCK IN BAT NETS: 3 NYCTIMENE, 2 SYCONYCTERIS, 1 MACRO- GLOSSUS (THE LATTER NEAR A FLOWERING TREE JOHN W. TOLD ME ABOUT), NO TRAPS OUT. LIK-LIK + I SPENT WHOLE DAY MAKING UP OUR SPECIMENS. BANDICOOT HAD 3 POUCH YOUNG; SUGAR GLIDER 2. SET 3 NETS FOR MACROGLOSSUS (AT 6 P.M.) JUST BEFORE DINNER MARY WORMES- LEY CALLED TO SAY THAT THE LONG-BEARED ECHIDNA THAT WAS FLOWN IN FROM TELEFOMIN TODAY WAS DEAD. WHAT A BREAK FOR US! IT IS NOW IN THE BOTTOM OF OUR REFRIGERATOR. PLEASANT DAY FOR OUR MOVE. 10 FRIDAY 100-265 (29) LAE TO OOMSIS PACKED OUR BAGS, FOOD + COLLECTING GEAR. LAST ERRANDS IN TOWN. TWO MORE BATS IN NETS (1 NYCTIMENE, 1 SYCONYCTERIS) — NEAR FAGRAEA TREES. I SENT NETS OUT ON FORESTRY TRUCK. MARK SCHULTZ CALLED AT HOUSE AT 2 P.M. TO GIVE US KEY. SHORT RIDE OUT WITH OUR TRAILER BEHIND (22 MILES). CLEANED HOUSE + SETTLED IN. LONG LIVING ROOM ACROSS FRONT. PLENTY OF ROOM FOR EATING + WORKING. LARGE BEDROOM. WE HAVE STRETCHER COTS. WELL SCREENED. KEROSENE REFRIGERATOR. TILLY LAMPS (LIKE CELEMANS). TRAPS + NETS OUT. BOUGHT 1 GREEN TREE PYTHON FROM GAROP, CARETAKER. NO LUCK WING-SHOTTING. VIEW DOWN VALLEY OF SARO WAGED MTS SUNNY, WITH OCCASIONAL BREEZE. 11 SATURDAY 101-264 (30) OOMSIS. CALLED. HAS SHOOT BOY CALLED ZENAG. 20 TRAPS: 1 SMALL ECHYMIPERA; 1 RATTUS EXULANS; 1 RATTUS ROBER; 1 NYCTIMENE IN NETS (3); 1 MELOMYS WHICH I SHOT (IN OUR SINGLE HOLER). LEN + I SHOT NUMEROUS FLASH PICTURES OF ZAGLOSSUS. SKINNING "HER" WAS QUITE A JOB. SHE DIDN'T DIE OF CHANGE OF ALTITUDE, AS JOHN W. VENTURED, BUT FROM BLOWS ABOUT THE SHOULDERS. PICKLED BODY (EXCEPT SKULL). ALBUM ON SKIN, WHICH I SCORED HEAVILY. RESET 3 BAT NETS IN TRAIL TO OOMSIS CREEK. TACKED. RAIN RAIN ALL NIGHT. CLEARING SLOWLY 12 SUNDAY 102-263 (31) OOMSIS LIK-LIK JUST BROUGHT IN HIS TRAPS (20). NO MAMMALS BUT ONE SHORT, THICK SNAKE CAUGHT BY THE HEAD. FINSCH BOY; 1 RATTUS EXULANS (14 TRAPS). NOT 1 BAT IN NETS (3). OUR FIRST MONTH FROM HOME (59 MAMMALs; 50 HERPS). LATE YESTERDAY ZENAG BROUGHT IN A 8" WHITE CUSCUS! GAVE HIM 3 STICKS TOBACO. WORKED ON ZAGLOSSUS SKIN FOR 3 HRS. JOE COLLINS + L. BAKER CALLED. JOHN C. #1 EXPLORED OOMSIS LOGGING ROADS. HEAVY RAIN CAME DOWN AT 6:15. NO TACKING.

4th Month APRIL 1959 30 Days Cloudy + RAIN ALL DAY. 13 MONDAY 103-262 (32) Oomsis Creek Today we cut bush tracks from the hogging paddock. Rain came Down in torrents — good shower! 3 Boys set 30 traps on tracks. Lovely 1° Forest. Shifted bat nets to fig tree. Baited 2 loop + pole traps for bandicoots. John + I shot another new bat at dusk. A fast, rangy flier. I shot one but we could not find it; also lost a Pip. New bat may be Taphozous. Very peculiar bent wing tip, throat gland, free tail from top of tail membrane. Lovely day. 14 TUESDAY 104-261 (33) Oomsis Creek 2 Melomys in traps. We again went after Taphozous but it was too nice a night. Saw only 1, flying late. John shot down the road + reported a medium-sized bat. Barrage, but no specimen. Big Dipper is over the road in one direction + southern cross the other. Down the valley we can see the Finesterre Mts, across the Markham Valley. John + I hacked a Brown cuscus & last night close to the creek E. of camp. Very large active pouch young. Climbed on our screens very easily. Beautiful, blue sky day. 15 WEDNESDAY 105-260 (34) Oomsis Creek Zerag brought in 2 fine white cuscuses (silver tobacco, 2 tins meat) 30 traps, 3 bat nets — no catch. Made up 2 Pips that we shot. Last night, blood sample + parasites. Worked on Zaglossus. Unpin- ned a few specimens; skulls drying well, skins also. Out tracking tonight until 10:45. Bad luck — wounded 2 big Pteropus neoh. (I flew away; the other dropped but hung up in another tree — may be down tomorrow). Wing-shooting; got 1 Pip on my first shot, then John + I double-teamed a large bat — Hipposideros, new for the trip. Many more flying in same spot. I crack at the Taphozous but did not get it. Big mail in from Lae this p.m. None from H. One from Dorothy posted on the 9th. John + I had a beer with Bill Jenkins (Forestry — 5 mi. down the road at 5:45). He lined his boys up + John asked them to watch out for bats + Pogonanys.

30 Days APRIL 1959 4th Month S/S SHANSI, WE LEARN, WILL NOT BE IN UNTIL SAT. 18TH TO LAE ON MON. 1ST QUARTER MOON. LOVELY DAY. 16 THURSDAY 106-259 (35) 5TH WEEK OOMSIS CREEK 31 TRAPS, 3 NETS — TRAPS IN SCRUB TRACK TO WEST. 1 MELOMYS + 1 YOUNG ECHYMIPERA; 1 SYCONYCTERIS IN NET; 1 AD. BANDICOOT BOUGHT FOR 4 SHILLINGS FROM OUR NEIGHBOR IN THE GARDEN PATCH. JOHN + MARY WOMERSLEY, CHILDREN + 2 FRIENDS DROVE OUT FROM LAE. DID NOT GET THE BANDICOOT MADE UP AS A RESULT, MR. + MRS. SCHULTZ CALLED IN A.M. BROUGHT OUT SOME BREAD. A GOOD BAT NIGHT: I SHOT 2 PIPS, 2 (HIPPOSIDEROS, 2 SPECIES PTEROPUS, + DOBSONIA; JOHN + PIP. "FOXES") WERE RAVENOUS FOR FRUIT OF TREE (SAPONACEAE) 1/2 MI. S. OF CAMP. FAIR, SOME CLOUD COVER. 17 FRIDAY 107-258 (36) OOMSIS CREEK 30 TRAPS — 1 RATTUS RUBER. NOTHING IN NETS. A LONG DAY AT SKINNING TABLE. MY #2 BOY, HETANA, SKINNED OUT THE DOBSONIA + 1 PTEROPUS. VERY WILLING. ZENAG BROUGHT IN HIS 4TH WHITE CUSCUS, THIS ONE WITH A SMALL, NAKED POUCH YOUNG (1 TIN CORNED BEEF, 3 TOBACO, PAPER, 5 SHILLINGS, BOX MATCHES). JUST BEFORE 6 P.M. THE GUNNS + BILL SMYTHE ARRIVED. OUT WING SHOOTING WITH JOHN + ME, I SHOT 1 HIPPO- SIDEROS IN LIGHT BEAM OF CAR. CHICKEN DINNER. WEST, UP THE HILL, HACKING. A FEW FOXES. I SHOT A BEAUTIFUL BIG GECKO. VISITORS LEFT AT 12: FAIR, WITH HIGH + LOW CLOUDS 18 SATURDAY 108-257 (37) OOMSIS CREEK 30 TRAPS, 3 NETS — NOTHING. TRAPS IN — WILL RUN THEM ALONG CREEK TONIGHT. BAT NETS RELOCATED — TO GROVE OF WILD FIGS SOUTH OF CAMP. RICHARD LEAHY CALLED IN THIS A.M. WITH SOME "ROCK MELONS". HIS PARENTS ARRIVE LAE NEXT WEDNESDAY. TOOK PICTURES OF FLYING FOX STUDY SKINS, OF KIM + OF HOUSE. GAROP CAME IN WITH A FINE 1 WHITE CUSCUS LATE AFTERNOON. JOHN + I JACKED HIS GOAT TRAIL. RAIN AFTER ONE HOUR. COLLECTED BEAUTIFUL GREEN TREE 19 SUNDAY 109-256 (38) OOMSIS CREEK AFTER RAIN, OVERCAST + HUMID. S.E. TRAPS IN P.M. LIK LIL HAD OUR 1ST HYDROMYS IN OUR WATER SETS ON THE CREEK, ALSO A WHITE- BELLIED MELOMYS. 7 SYCONYCTERIS IN 2 NETS IN FIG GROVE. I SHOT A PIP + AN EMBALLONUZA LAST NIGHT IN LOG PADDock. GAROP BROUGHT IN A GIANT 9 PTEROPUS, THIS FRIEND OUR 1ST UROMYS. WOMERSLEYS CALLED. S/S SHANSI DUE TOMORROW. MAMMAL TOTALS: 3 SP. MARSUPIALS (12 SPECIMENS) 9 BATS (27); 6 RODENTS (13). NO BATS SHOT TONIGHT; TRAPS + NETS IN; NO JACKING.

4th Month APRIL 1959 30 Days RAINING STEADILY 20 MONDAY 110-255 (39) Oomsis to LAE UP EARLY AND PACKED FOR RETURN TO LAE. WAITED UNTIL 10:30 FOR WORD FROM FORESTRY ON THE "SHANSI". NONE CAME SO WE DROVE IN + FOUND THE "SHANSI" AT THE DOCK! AT LONG LAST OUR CARGO IS HERE. JOHN + I WENT DOWN TO WHARF AFTER LUNCH BUT STILL RAINING. HATCHES OFF AT 3 P.M. NO CHANCE OF CARGO. WENT TO HOTEL FOR SWIM-NO WATER IN POOL. HAD A BEER WITH SOME OF JOHN'S FRIENDS. HAIRCUT IN "KONG TOWN" (CHINESE SECTION) BY AN EXPERT CHINESE LADY BARBER. TO MOVIES WITH JOHN. NO SHOOTING. FAIR 21 TUESDAY 111-254 (40) LAE DOWN TO SHIP. CARGO ROUNDED UP BY FORESTRY TRUCKS - ALL EXCEPT OUR AMMO CRATE. RATS FROM CONFLICT GROUP - SENT BY ALAN WILLIS RECEIVED SAFELY. TWO CRATES OF LIVE TRAPS AND ECTO PARASITE VIALS FROM BOB TRAUB ALSO ON BOARD. WE ALL WORKED ON OPENING CRATES + SORTING BLACK BOXES MOST OF DAY. DOWN TO WHARF TO FIND AMMO BOX. AGENT ROY OSLING- TON FINALLY FOUND IT! DINNER TONIGHT WITH THE WOMERSLEYS. DELICIOUS. EXCELLENT PUDDING. GOODS A. RIESLING WINE. GINGER BEER FAIR MOST OF DAY. 22 WEDNESDAY 112-253 (41) LAE SORTING SUPPLIES MOST OF DAY. WHAT A TREAT IT IS TO HAVE PROPER SUPPLIES! PACKED COLLECTING TRUNKS FOR NEXT 5 WEEKS. JOHN LEARNED THAT A QANTAS PILOT HAS SOME BATS IN ROOF OF HIS HOUSE. OFF WE WENT AND I CRAWLED UNDER THE EAVES AND FISHED THEM OUT WITH A COAT HANGER. I WAS CAUGHT - A PREGNANT ♀ - PIPISTRELLUS. I WAS HOP- ING THEY WOULD BE "FREE-TAILS". PUT EMBRYO IN BOUINS FLUID TO FIX TISSUES FOR BILL WIMSA TT. JOHN GUNN + BILL SMYTHE CALLED WITH A BIG SPIDER - MALES SHORT FUNNEL WEB IN HOLE IN GROUND. TOOK PICTURES OF BILL HAND- LING IT - RATHER SLUGGISH + NOT AGGRESSIVE. JOHN G. BROUGHT ME AN 8' PHTYON. TOOK PICTURES OF J.G. + BILL PLAYING WITH IT.

30 Days APRIL 1959 4th Month RETURNED JACKLIGHT, TOW, TAIL WIRE TO G.MACK. LETTERS TO: DOROTHY, WILLIS, HIGH CLOUD OVERCAST. LAE 23 THURSDAY 113-252 (42) 6TH WEEK | MAYHEW, AND MACK. UP AT 6:30. TO AIRPORT TO MEET MICK + JEANETTE LEAHY. PLANE IN FROM P. MORESBY AT 7:30. CAR BROKE DOWN NEAR MARATHAM RIVER BRIDGE, SO JOHN TOOK THEM TO ZENAG IN THE LAND ROVER. LEN + I WORKED ALL DAY AT THE FORESTRY SHED. WRAPPED SPECIMENS. KILLED + PICKLED JOHN GUNN'S BIG 8 FT. PYTHON FROM ROOKE IS. MET DAVE BUSH AT DICK TEBBS HOME ON THE OCEAN. DAVE HAD 10 TREE-CLIMB- ( FOR TARONGA PARK ZOO ) ING KANGAROOS (3? SPP.), NATIVE CAT, + 20 ODD SALVADORE DUCKS. SOUTH ON ON BOARD THE "BULODO" TOMORROW. RAY MURTAGH (B.P.) CALLED. VISITED MR. & MRS. MACLEAN "BULOLD". LETTERS HIGH OVERCAST. FAIR LATER. 24 FRIDAY 114-251 (43) LAE TO OOMSIS) Fr. KAY APRIL 17 SPENT ENTIRE A.M., PACKING BLACK BOXES + WEIGHING, SANK MYRTLE, THE FLY RIVER TURTLE, AGAIN, WRAPPED + PACKED FLYING FOXES. LOADED GEAR ABOUT 8 P.M. SENT IT A P.I.M. (MARCH). TO OOMSIS ABOUT 4:35. MY BOY, HETANA, GLAD TO SEE US. HAS A P. ORIENTALIS, 2 PETAEURUS, 1 NYCTIMENE, 1 MELOMYS ALIVE FOR US. JOHN + I WENT DOWN THE ROAD TO LIONEL BAKER'S TO SHOOT BAT. RAIN CAME JUST AS THEY BEGAN TO FLY. A LARGE BAT AROUND: HAD A BEER. LOVELY HOUSE + GROUNDS, STEADY RAIN TONIGHT. NO JACKING OVERCAST, FAIR, RAIN AT DUSK 25 SATURDAY 115-250 (44) OOMSIS, ANZAC DAY 48 TRAPS, 2 NETS OUT THIS P.M. NOTHING IN 24 TRAPS LAST NIGHT. A BUSY DAY MAKING UP 3 ECHYMIPERA, 2 PETAEURUS, 1 MELLOMYS. BOUGHT THE 3 BANDICOOT FOR 4 SH. A PIECE. ONE VERY LARGE 7; 24S HAD TOTAL OF 5 POUCH YOUNG. JOHN ALSO PUT OUT THE 3 LIVE TRAPS ALONG THE CREEK - NO CATCH. JOHN + I WENT JACKING FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS. SHOT 2 GECKOS BUT GOT NEITHER. SHOT A FLYING FOX BUT HE "HUNG UP," I DID COLLECT A BIG BLACK MILLIPEDE (8") + 2 YELLOW BANDED SAME PATTERN (OVERCAST, FAIR, RAIN AT 8 P.M.) 26 SUNDAY 116-249 (45) OOMSIS ANOTHER NEW BAT FOR OOMSIS ! PARANYCTIMENE ! IN OUR NETS IN THE FIG GROVE. ALSO A SYCONYCTERIS. ONLY THE 6TH KNOWN SPECIMEN; THE 3RD FROM T.N.G. NOW HAVE 10 SPECIES BATS. NOTHING IN TRAPS. 72 RATS OUT TONIGHT, 2 NETS, NO LIVE TRAPS. SHOOTING AT BAKER'S TONIGHT. BOY KNOCKED DOWN A TIPISTRELLUS. JOHN + I EACH SHOT A LARGE MINIOPTERUS IN THE BEAMS OF ROVER'S LIGHT. NEW FOR CAMP! AN EVEN LARGER BAT ABOUT. JOHN GUNN, ISHIBEL + MISS SARGENT CALLED. RAIN, NO JACKING.

4th Month APRIL 1959 30 Days 27 MONDAY 117-248 (46) Oomsis Bill Jenkins + Jack Levine (from Forestry Operations) came down after itai to go tracting with John + me. Poor flight, of course, for visitors. Shot i Miniopterus, 3 Syconycteris in nets. The whole business of lumbering by the government is a very wasteful business. 1000s of £s worth of equipment, taking only large trees for mill in lae, many smaller trees destroyed, no replanting done. Private logging would have to run much more efficiently to make profit. Really knock forest about. Log paddocks good for bat shooting at dusk. 28 TUESDAY 118-247 (47) Oomsis Good luck wing-shooting tonight - shot a second Taphozous! Sharp-eyed Hetana found it immediately! 72 traps, 6 steels, 2 nets, 3 live traps (along Oomsis Creek), i Melomys in steel set. John + I jacked from 8:30 to 11 p.m., shot i Gecko and collected a few frogs. Saw no mammals. This was in 1° forest where Lik Lik + I cut track a couple of weeks ago. Saw a beautiful large moth - eyes shining red in lamp. Woods very quiet except for frogs, a few insects + distant roar of brook. Rain after midnight. At least forestry will never make a mess of this slope. Overcast, then fair. 29 WEDNESDAY 119-246 (48) Oomsis 72 rat traps, 2 nets, 6 steels (#0) - 1 set, 3 livetraps. John found the bat he shot Mon. night at dusk. Another Taphozous! Fly blown but put it in formalin. This is our third one. Nothing in nets, steels, or live traps. Lik Lik, 1 yg. Uromys; Hetana 3 R. exulans, 2 Melomys, 1 R. ruber. Lionel Baker brought in 1 R. ruber, trapped in cacao plantation, destroying a lot of unripened pods. Bought an Echymipera from our neighbor. Parasites on the Taphozous we shot last night (3 kinds: wingless fly, lice (ticks)). Worked all day on skins. Bob Wright + 'fungus' 2 cadet foresters went out with Len this a.m., stayed for itai. John + I out at dusk - no bat flight. Message from John Womersley saying John Gunn may get job at Melbourne Zoo. John + I up at 5:45 a.m. to try for bats, saw 2 Taphozous, high.

30 & 31 Days APRIL & MAY 1959 4th & 5th Months BEAUTIFUL FAIR HOT DAY 30 THURSDAY 120-245 (49) Oomsis (OVER 90°) 72 R.TRAPS; 3 LIVE, 6 STEEL, 1 NET. 1 R.RUDER, 4 R. EXULANS, 1 MELOMYS NOTHING IN STEELS, LIVE OR NET. LIONEL BAKER BROUGHT US A LOVELY RED RHINOLOPHUS (LARGE EARS; MODIFIED HORSESHOE NOSE, BROAD WINGS) NEW FOR COLLECTION. 1 DOBSONIA FROM ZENAG. BOB WRIGHT + ALAN WHITE, CADET FOREST OFFICERS OUT WITH LEN IN A.M. WE ALL WENT OUT TO FELL A GIANT TREE WITH "RAT HOLE" IN IT. NOTHING AFTER EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH. PICTURES, DINNER AT FORESTRY CAMP. FULL COURSE. DELICIOUS! Mr + Mrs GUNN + Dr. TRINDER CAME IN + JOINED US. GIFT OF SNAKES FROM GUND LETTER FROM MRS. KOENIG 1 May FRIDAY 121-244 (50) Oomsis 36 R.TRAPS, 6 STEEL (1 SET), 3 LIVE, NO NETS OUT LAST NIGHT. TWO NEW SPECIES TODAY! SENT LILT LILT + HETANA ACROSS ROAD INTO RAINFOREST TO LOOK FOR TREE HOLES. FOUND NURSERY OF PHILETOR, 4 ADULTS, 2 YOUNG, 18 PREGNANT. ALSO FOUND OUR FIRST POGONOMYS FOR LOCALITY - SMOOTH, BROWN, TAIL SCALES - HARD, 1 YC. NOW 26 SPECIES FOR LOCALITY. JOHN WENT TO TOWN FOR SUPPLIES. DOWN TO LIONEL BAKER'S TO SHOOT BATS, NOTHING FLYING. GAVE HIM INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT PRESERVING BATS - IF ANY MORE "RED" RHINOLOPHUS TURN UP. SHERRY BEFORE COMING HOME TO DINNER. WORKED UN- TIL MIDNIGHT MEASURING + MAKING UP POGONOMYS. JOHN SAT UP FEEDING ME CHOCOLATE HOT, BLUE SKY DAY. WIND LATE2 SATURDAY 122-243 (51) Oomsis 36 R.TRAPS, 6 STEELS, 3 LIVE TRAPS. NOTHING IN TRAPS EXCEPT A SHINKT. TODAY WAS OUR LAKE WANUM (1 X 2 MILES) OUTING. WE MET LIONEL BAKER AT 9:15 P.M. + WE ALL DROVE THRU THE CACAO PLANTATION 2 MILES. THEN ABOUT 1/2 HR. EASY WALK TO LAKE SHORE THRU FLOOD PLAIN FOREST + KUNAI GRASS. SANDY BOTTOM. PINK SACRED LOTUS IN COVES. HERONS, SMALL FISH, SNAILS, CLAMS. WE ALL WENT SWIMMING + FISHING! PICTURES. HOME LUNCH 1:00 P.M. TREE FALLING IN P.M. - NO MAMMALS. JACKING - 1 BANDICOOT, SWARM OF MINIOP- TERUS S.E. SEASON, BEAUTIFUL BLUE DAY. RAIN AT 10:P.M. 3 SUNDAY 123-242 (52) Oomsis (LAST DAY) 1 LIVETRAP OVERTURNED. NOTHING IN STEELS. TONIGHT 36 RAT; 6 STEEL; 3 LIVE. PUT A BIG CLOTH PATCH IN BANDICOOT - TURNED OUT VERY WELL. J. WOMERSLEY, LAURIE EDWARDS (P.M.), L. BAKER ALL ARRIVED IN MIDDLE OF OUR SPECIMEN TIME, BROUGHT AIR PHOTOS OF MT. WILHELM + STEREO VIEWER, UNPINNED + PACKED SPECIMENS. OUT BAITING STEELS AT 10:00 P.M., SHOT MOUSE (?) IN TREE, WILL SEARCH TOMORROW. ALSO SHOT A BLACK-HEADED, BANDED 8 FT. SNAKE. 132 MAMMALS FOR OOMSIS. 36 OR 27 SPECIES

5th Month MAY 1959 31 Days NOTHING IN TRAPS. GURATOR. FAIR. DELIGHTFUL CLIMATE AT 4 MONDAY 124-241 (53) Oomsis to Gurakor UP EARLY, PACKED ROVER + TRAILER; 9 PASSENGERS. LEFT HOUSE AT 9:45; 23 MILE TRIP TOOK 1/4 HOURS. THE HORROLTS WERE AT WAU SO WE PARKED AT JIM SULLIVAN'S ROADS CAMP + HAD LUNCH AND A CHAT. (+A BEER - 1 ITEM HE TAKES CARE NEVER TO RUN OUT OF!), HORROLTS ARR. at 1:30 + WE UNLOADED AT 3: P.M. VERY COMFORTABLE HOUSE, BEDROOM, ROOM FOR ALL COLLECTING GEAR. J.C. SHOT A MINIOPTERUS (L.) AT DUSK. SEVERAL BOYS CAME JACKING WITH ME. WALKED 3-4 MILES - HOME AT 11: SHOT FIRST DACTYLOPSILA FOR TRIP; ALSO A SMALL HIPPOSIDEROS. ELECTRIC LIGHTS! FAIR, HEAVY CUMULUS 80° AT 1: P.M. 5 TUESDAY 125-240 (54) GURAKOR LUTHERAN MISS, 1 MELOMYS IN 30 TRAPS, HAVE BOYS SHINNING IN SHED. MEASURING AND NOTE-TAKING ON DINING ROOM TABLE, LOVELY COOL BREEZE UP THE VALLEY. JOHN LOOKED FOR BATS IN ROOF - NONE, LEN IS FINDING THIS A GOOD LOCALITY FOR PLANTS. JACKING IN MRS. HORROLT'S "WILD GAR- DEN. FOUND + SHOT A P E C U S C U S (ORIENTALIS) VERY QUICKLY. CHECKED OUR NETS, SAW A PETATURUS BUT DIDN'T GET IT. HIM BAKED FIRST BREAD FOR TRIP. GOOD! JOHN'S EAR BOTHERING HIM SEVERELY. REV. HORROLT DROPS IN FOR A CHAT OFTEN. WE LIKE HIM. AN OLD N.G. HAND. OVERCAST, CLOUDS ON HILLTOPS 6 WEDNESDAY 126-239 (55) GURAKOR LUTH. MISSION NOTHING IN 30 RAT TRAPS; BAIT TAKEN FROM 1 LIVE TRAP; NOTHING IN 3 NETS. L 25 H 25 K 10 V.D.13 TONIGHT: 70 RATS; 3 NETS; 3 LIVE TRAPS; NO STEELS (TOO MANY DOGS!). I BOUGHT 1 PETAURUS, 1 P. (3 SH. + 2 SH.); 2 EMBALLONURA + 1 MINIOPTERUS FROM SMALL BOYS (6 D. EACH); ALSO 1 GORNA WITH YELLOW SPOTS (1 SH.). WHILE AT LUNCH THERE WAS A SHOUT IN THE FIELD BELOW HOUSE AND ALL DROPPED THEIR GRASS-CUTTING TO CHASE A BANDICOOT. IT WAS BADLY CUT UP BUT THE SKULL WAS PERFECT. SAME GENUS AS AT OOMSIS; GAVE OLD MAN A STICK OF TOBACO FOR SKULL, HORROLTS WENT TO BULULO FOR LUMBER. JOHN'S EAR WORSE THIS AFTERNOON HE TOOK ROVER TO MUMENG. WILL STAY THE NIGHT AT ZENAG AFTER SEEING DOCTOR. CUT LARGE SLINGSHOT STICKS + STRUNG THEM WITH NETS, CAUGHT NOTHING. 1 SMALL MINIOPTERUS SHOT. NOTHING JACKING,

31 Days MAY 1959 5th Month THUNDERSTORM BEAUTIFUL DAY, IN LATE P.M. 7 THURSDAY 127-238 56 GURAKOR LUTH. MISSION 1 MELOMYS, 1 RATTUS EX. COURIER CAME IN WITH MAIL TODAY. LETTER FROM K. DATED APR. 30. ALSO NOTE FROM MARGARET GILLIARD SAYING GOOD- BYE + SENDING ME A PACKET OF 5 BATS COLLECTED BY FATHER OTTO SHELLEY IN BIG CAVE N. OF MADANG. ALAN WHITE (FOREST CADET) SENT ME 3 POGONOMYS FOUND IN A TREE WHILE LOGGING NEAR OOMSIS CREEK. ALSO MUSEUM MEMO STATING NEW POLICY ON DIRECTOR, JR. PARR IS BEING ITICKED UPSTAIRS - AS A SENIOR SCIENTIST. K. HAS MY LETTERS + PICTURES. PACKED ZAGLOSSUS + A FEW OTHER SKINS - I EXP. BOX FULL - TO SEND TO LAE TOMORROW BY COURIER. WROTE K., H.+M., 4:P.M. OVERCAST, STEADY RAIN FROM 8 FRIDAY 128-237 57 GURAKOR L.M. 2 RATTUS + 1 Y.G. ECHYMIPERA IN TRAPS (70 RATS, 3 LIVE; 3 NETS) FINISHED UP POGONOMYS SKINS FROM YESTERDAY. ALL TRAPS IN. HOWEVER, MICK LEAHY, RICHARD, TIMOTHY, PHILIP, + MEGAN JANE CAME BY TO REPORT ON JOHN COLLINS. GIVEN MORPHINE TO EASE PAIN LAST NIGHT. BIOTICS TAKING EFFECT TODAY - BETTER. WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TRAVEL BEFORE MONDAY, SO WE HAVE TWO MORE DAYS HERE. VERY SLOW FOR MAMMALS. 43 RAT TRAPS OUT, 3 LIVE, 3 NETS. 1 RAT ONLY, HAND-NET- TED 1 EMBALLONURA, 1 BOY 1 OTHER, BOUGHT 1 MINIOPTERUS. OUT FOR FLYING FOXES! UNTIL 10: UP AT 11:30 - MISSED. UP AT 2:45 A.M., SHOT 1 DOBSONIA, VERY NEAR HOUSE. SAME PATTERN, CLOUDS, SOME SUN. 9 SATURDAY 129-236 58 GURAKOR L.M. HARRY ROTHWELL (VET.) WHOM I MET AT KILA STOPPED IN ON HIS WAY TO LAE AFTER AN INSPECTION AT ZENAG (CATTLE). A MR. WATKINS WITH HIM. A YOUNG GERMAN DAIRY MAN, MR. STIMM, WHO WORKED AT LUTH. MISS. FARM AT MALAHANG ALSO HERE FOR A VISIT. RETURNING TO GERMANY. MADE UP FOX AND A FEW BATS, ONLY 1 MELOMYS IN TRAPS. RICHARD L. BROUGHT ME A LARGE CARPET SNAKE YESTERDAY - KILLED ON ROAD AFTER EATING CHICKEN, SHINNED + PICKLED IT. TOOK PICTURES OF LEAHY FAMILY VERY BEAUTIFUL A.M. SHOWERS P.M. 10 SUNDAY 130-235 59 GURAKOR L.M. TOOK ADVANTAGE OF CLEAR DAY FOR A FEW PICTURES AROUND THE STATION. I COULD SEE THE HIGH, MASSIVE OUTLINE OF THE MTS. OF HUON PENINSULA FOR FIRST TIME. PREPARED SPECIMENS UNTIL 9:45 WHEN MR. HORROTT CALLED TO TAKE LEN + ME TO NATIVE CHURCH IN GURAKOR, SINGING + SERMON IN LUTH. NATIVE TONGUE SUNDAY DINNER + TEA WITH MR. H (MRS. H. ILL). 60 TRAPS, 3 LIVE, -1 MELOMYS. KNOCKED DOWN A FEW BATS LAST NIGHT, 1 SHOT. PACKED FOR MOVE TOMORROW.

5th Month MAY 1959 (W. FIREPLACE) 31 Days GOOD HOUSE, ELECTRIC LIGHT, BEDROOM, OFFICE, SHINNING PORCH; KITCHEN, LIVING-DINING ROOM HEAVY CLOUD NO TRAPS OUT. SUNSHINING AT 7:30. BELOW US: 11 MONDAY 131-234 (60) GURAKOR L.M. TO EDIE CREEK DOGS OPENED THE DAY BY RUNNING + BARKING FURIOUSLY AT THE BOYS WHEN THEY CAME UP TO COOK BREAKFAST, ALL PACKED + READY TO LEAVE - IF JOHN IS WELL + COMES. BOUGHT 9 SMALL BATS FROM 2 SMALL BOYS - BEST YET! AT 6D EACH. OFF AT 10:30. T. WELL, ROAD TO BULALO NOW FAMILIAR. STOPPED AT FORESTRY. ON TO WAU. MET A.D.O. SINCLAIR, WILL FORWARD MAIL TO EDIE CREEK, JOHN + ROVER DID WELL TO GET US UP STEEP, WINDING ROAD TO BOB FRANKLIN'S SPARE HOUSE, MET A BILL BRADLEY (FORMER H.WGT. CH. BRITISH ARMY). BOTH WILL ADVISE NATIVES WE WANT MAMMALS, 20 RAT TRAPS OUT. TEMP. 58° AT 8:P.M. ELEV. 6700', RAINING. HEARD "6 O'CLOCK CRICKET". BEAUTIFUL A.M. CLOUDING OVER/ 58° AT 7:A.M. (12) TUESDAY 132-233 (61) KAINDI (EDIE CR. AREA) LIK LIK HAD 4 RATTUS IN 10 TRAPS SET NEAR HOUSE. HETANA 0 IN 10. MEASURED + LEFT WITH LEN + JOHN IN ROVER FOR EDIE CREEK PROPER. MET SCOTTY SUTHERLAND + TOM BUBBERS (NEIGHBORS) ON ROAD, TOM IN CAPE YORK FOR MANY YRS. SCOTTY HAD US IN FOR TEA. GEORGE HOLLAND + EUGENE MUNROE STAYED WITH HIM. SHOWED US GOLD WORKINGS. WALKED OUT BULLDOG TRAIL FOR ABOUT 2 MILES (GOES TO NEAR PAPUAN COAST). JOHN SAW A WALLABY, LEN COLLECTED RHODODEDRONS. BACK ON BUSH TRAIL FOR LATE LUNCH. PUT UP SKINS + TALKED WITH BILL BRADLEY. 40 RATS OUT TONIGHT. BILL ASKED HIS KUKUTUKUS TO BRING IN MAMMALS. DRIZZLE MOST OF A.M. 69° AT 3:45 P.M. 186 ROSY DAWN. OVERCAST IN P.M. 13 WEDNESDAY 133-232 (62) KAINDI (c. 2060 M.) MY 2ND MONTH FROM HOME. 1 R. NIOBE, 2 R. VERECONDUS IN 10 MOS. SP. L-L + H. 1 EACH IN 40 TRAPS. BILL B'S BOY BROUGHT ME A RAT, TOO. JACKING UP HILL IN BACK OF FRANKLIN'S HOUSE, BADLY HACKED UP. SAW NOTHING. DOWN NEAR THE GOLD BAT- TERY AT DUSK. JOHN SAW 2 BATS - NO SHOTS. SAW 1 FLYING FOX UP TOWARDS THE KAINDI MT. TRACK. BILL B. + BOB FRANKLIN IN FOR SUPPER LAST NIGHT. TODAY BILL + I WENT IN SEVERAL OLD GOLD DRIVES AFTER BATS. NO LUCK. ONE HAD A STREAM FLOWING OUT OF IT. ROTTEN TIMBERS. IN ABOUT 200 FT. OVER MY BOOTS, LEN GETTING GOOD PLANT COLLECTION. HAS BEEN GOING IN HOUSE. JOHN + I WILL GO WING- SHOOTING WITH BILL NEAR HIS HOUSE TONIGHT. SAW NO BATS. AFTER DINNER T. BILL, HETANA + I DROVE UP THE KAINDI ROAD ABOUT 1 1/4 MILES. JACKED ABOVE + BELOW TRUCK FOR 1 1/4 HRS. SAW NOTHING EXCEPT SMALL BATS + SEVERAL FAST FLYING LARGER BATS. KL.0 IN 20; H.4 IN 20; D.0 IN 10. HOME AT 10:P.M.

31 Days MAY 1959 5th Month OVERCAST. WEAK SUN AT TIMES 14 THURSDAY 134-231 (63) KAINDI MADE UP 4 RATS. SENT BOYS OUT LOOKING FOR HOLES IN TREES. JOE HAVEL, DON MCINTOSH, BOB CATTANCH ARRIVED FROM BULOLo AT 11: P.M. JOE IS A RESEARCH FORESTER INTERESTED IN CONIFERS. WILL STAY WITH US UOUNT SATURDAY. BRINGT 2 LOAVES OF THE FAMOUS BULULO BREAD. GOOD! JOHN + I DROVE OVER TO SLATE CREEK. MINE DRIVE HAD FALLEN IN. NO BATS IN HOUSE. JOHN + BOYS CUT DOWN A TREE WITH HOLES - NOTHING. SET STEELS ALONG CREEK (GOOD CLEAR H2O). BILL BRADLEY; JOHN + I DROVE UP KAINDI RD. BILL SHOT 1 BAT-LOST IT. SHOT NEAR BILL'S 18 STEELS, 5 M.Sp., 60 RATS (Kim 10, LL.20, H.20, V.D.5, T.C.5) PIP. + I LARGE MINI OPT. OVERCAST. SOME WEAK SUN. MOON OUT. 15 FRIDAY 135-230 (64) KAINDI NOTHING IN SLATE CREEK TRAPS (1 RAT TRAP WITH HAIR, 2 STEELS SPRUNG). BOYS HAD 1 RATTUS EACH. BOB FRANKLIN HAD 4 RATTUS IN THE 5 MUSEUM SPECIALS I GAVE HIM TO SET IN HOUSE. LEN, JOE + JOHN WENT UP KAINDI TODAY. JOHN BRINGT ME A FROG AND A LIZARD. TOOK LONG NAP AFTER 1:45 P.M. LUNCH. JOHN, LIKLIK + I NETTED THE LONG DRIVE NEAR THE MAERI CREEK AND SAT INSIDE WRITING FOR BATS TO FLY OUT FROM 5:45 TO 7: P.M. NONE. HOWEVER, SEVERAL BLUE-GREEN SWALLOWs TRIED TO ENTER CAVE (TO ROOST?). NO TACKING. Kim 2 LIVE, 10 RAT, 9 STE放; LL.20 RAT; H.20 RAT; T.C. 3 STEEL, 5 RAT. OVERCAST. FOR, DRIZZLE, RAIN. 16 SATURDAY 136-229 (65) KAINDI NOTHING IN TRAPS. KIM JACKED LAST NIGHT - NOTHING. NATIVE SAVED THE DAY. BROUGHT IN A RING-TAILED POSSUM + AN ANISOMYS (GIANT RAT) FROM MT. KAINDI. PAID 4 SH, 2 STICKS TOBACO, PAPER. JOE HAVEL LEFT AFTER A PLEASANT STAY. RAIN - SO NO WING-SHOOTING. JACKING DOWN WAU ROAD 1 HOUR - DRIZZLE, CAUGHT IN RAIN, BACK IN 1/2 HOUR. COLLECTED NEW FROG, ("TICH" - SHARP, HIGH PTCHEd). PUT OUT K.15R. TRAP-LINE ON bulldog TRACK + NATIVE PAD. TRAPS: V.D. 9 STEEL, 24 RAT; HETANA 25 RAT. 2 ST. CLEAR + WINDY. HEAVY CUMULUS. 17 SUNDAY 137-228 (66) KAINDI. HEAVY RAIN AT 12:15 AM 1 R,ATTUS IN 3 MUS.SP. IN KITCHEN; 2 RATTUS ONLY. RAN TRAPLINE ON BULLDOG TRACK + TRACK THRU CASTANOPSIS RIDGE TO EADIE CREEK TEA WITH GEORGE ("SCOTTY") SUTHERLAND. HETANA HAD THE PRIZE CATCH - OUR FIRST MARSUPIAL MOUSE = ANTECHINUS. NOW 8 SPECIES FOR CAMP. 1 STEEL TRAP MISSING. TURNED UP AT SCOTTY'S. NATIVE DOG DRAGGED IT IN. JACKED BULLDOG 2 HRS. IN RAIN, TRAPS: H.29 RAT; LL.T.C. V.D. 24 RAT, 9 STEEL, 1 LIVE; KIM 15 RAT, 1 LIVE, 2 STEEL, V.D. 4 M.Sp. 2 LIVE

5th Month MAY 1959 31 Days OVERCAST, AS USUAL. 18 MONDAY 138-227 (67) KAINDI JOHN + I RAN BULLDOG TRAPLINE + gPULLED IT UP; I RATTUS ONLY. HETANA; I RATTUS. JOHN DROVE INTO WAU AT 10:30 FOR SUPPLIES + TO TRY TO GET PEDROS WITH HIS DOGS. P. LIVES ON THE WARIA RIVER- 3 DAYS WALK AWAY! HOWEVER, BERT J'S HEAD BOY BROUGHT IN A LIVE P. (5/0 SH.) GYMNOTIS + IS ANXIOUS TO HUNT THIS COMING WEEKEND. 2 OF BOB FRANKLIN'S BOYS BROUGHT IN A SPECIES OF RING-TAILS. LHI LIK + I WALKED PART WAY UP KAINDI RD. + SET 24 RAT + 8 M.SP. IN NOTHOFAGUS (2°) ALONG SMALL STREAM. LEN JOHN + I HAD CONFERENCE ON MT. WILHELM TRIP (SUPPLIES + WEIGHTS). CLEAR DAY. VERY GOOD IN P.M. 19 TUESDAY 139-226 (68) KAINDI (TOOK PICTURE OF MT. (UP MT. KAINDI) Misim LHI LIK + I HAD 2 ANTCHINUS IN OUR NEW TRAP LINE (BOTH NEAR WATER). PULLED ALL TRAPS EXCEPT HIM'S TO TAKE UP MOUNTAIN, 13 MAMMALS FOR DAY - OUR BEST AT KAINDI. WORKED UNTIL 4:15 P.M. JOHN PACkEDT FOOD, 0TRAPS + GEAR + WE SPDX OFF AT 4:30. ONLY 10 MIN. TO TOP OF KAINDI RD. gLOGGED GEAR TO SUMMIT WHERE JOHN BUILT A FIRE + WE LAID OUT OUR SWAGS ON CONCRETE FLOOR OF THE REPEATER STATION SHED. BACK TO TRUCK & JACKED; SET TRAPS. DINNER AT 9 P.M. JACkED UNTIL 1:1 A.M. SHOT I P. CUPREUS. BED AT 2: TRAPS; V.D. + T.C. 50 RAT; 8 M.SP., I LIVE; KIM 15 R, 2 ST, I LIVE BEAUTIFUL MOONLIGHT NIGHT. BEAUTIFUL, BLUE SKY DAY. RAIN 20 WEDNESDAY 140-225 (69) KAINDI (+ MT. KAINDI) WOKE AT 6! TO A BEAUTIFUL CLEAR DAWN. WHOLE SKYLINE VISIBLE. TOOK ROLL OF FILM - PANORAMA, + A FEW PERSONAL PHOTOS. JOHN COOKED OUR BREAKFAST, BUT WE WERE TOO INTERESTED IN VIEW TO CARE MUCH; CHICKEN SOUP, CHOPS, TOAST, CHEESE, DATES, TEA + CADBURY'S CHOCOLATE BAR. RAN OUR TRAPS: V.D. 3 GRAY-BELLIED RATS; T.C. 1 OF SAME. R over Packed our swags, put them on a pole (also brief case + traps) and DOUBLE CARRIED DOWN TO WHERE BILL BRADLEY WAS BLASTING FOR ROAD. 2 OF HIS KUKUKUKU BOYS TOOK IT TO ROVER. PECULIAR WAY OF GREETING - TICKLE YOU UNDER CHIN WITH THE FINGERS! MOREPICTURES ON WAY DOWN. META POLICE OFFICER ON ROAD DOWN (PHIL RYAN) - OUT FOR A LOOK AROUND. HORACE WILFRED CLISSOLD ("HORRiE») + PHIL CAME IN FOR LUNCH; H. A NATURALIST - INTERESTED IN BIRDS + MAM. OFFERED TO HELP, HEN BOUGHT A GREEN RINGTON.

31 Days MAY 1959 5th Month ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY! 21 THURSDAY 141-224 (70) KAINDI. HORRIE'S BOYS BROUGHT IN 18 SMALL MINIOPTERUS FROM BERTH'S MINE TUNNEL. ALSO 3 RATTUS N. MADE UP. 7 M. KIM DID NOT SHOOT ANYTHING LAST NIGHT BUT BROUGHT IN 4 GOOD FROGS. BUYARD LEAHY (17) ARRIVED SOON AFTER NOON. HE WILL HERRN TO SKIN + WILL HELP WITH JACKING. HE + JOHN ARE OUT ON BULLDOG TRACK TONIGHT. BILL BRADLEY HERE FOR DINNER. GOT A SUNBURN SHINNING ON PORCH TODAY. JOHN + LEN DRONED TO SLATE CREEK + THEN WALKED WEST. I SET 7 STEELS IN 19 FOREST. NO LUCK JACKING. DID NOT GO OUT. BED AT 10: TRAPS 1 KILLER, 2 ST. I LIVE; BLT 20, I LIVE, H. 25 R, 2 ST. AFTER PREPARING FROGS + Overcast, some sun, showers. 22 FRIDAY 142-223 (71) KAINDI. 4 MELOMYS + 1 RATTUS IN TRAPS. GAVE RICHARD (BIRTHDAY JUNE 22 - 18 YRS) HIS FIRST MEASURING + SKINNING LESSONS. A PLEASANT MORNING (WITH SUN) AT THE TABLE. JOHN TOOK LEN UP KAINDI IN A.M. HORRIE CLISSOLT DROPPED IN FOR SHORT VISIT IN P.M. WITH A SISTER JONES FROM BULOLo. SAYS HE HAS HIS BOYS ORGANIZED IN GROUPS OF 4 FOR HUNTING THIS WEEKEND. HOPE THEY HAVE GOOD LUCK! JOHN + RICHARD ARE OVER ON WATUT DRAINAGE PICKING UP TRAPS AND JACKING BACK AT DUSK. LIL LILT+ I WENT JACKING TO SLATE CR. I SPOTTED A SILA-SILA + HIO ED, BUT DOUBTFUL. J.+R. BACK WITH SILKY CUSCUS, DACTYLONAX, + A NEW MELOMYS! A FINE BAG! FAIR. BEAUTIFUL DAY. 23 SATURDAY 143-222 (72) KAINDI RICHARD SKINNED OUT THE CUSCUS. VISITORS FROM BULOLo + WAU: MIKE KAZAKOFF (FORESTER), ALAN ROSS (FOREST SURVEYOR), MISS BRYANT + MISS AARONS (TEACHERS). ALAN BROUGHT ME 3 PICKLED B won 2 SYCONYCTERIS + PHONISCUS, THE latter a wonderful addition (this makes 3 for the last 3 EXP. VISITORS BROUGHT PICNIC LUNCH WITH THEM + LEN CAME INTO THE MIDDLE OF IT WHEN RETURNING LATE FROM MT. KAINDI. T.R.+I+WAK JACKING ON MT. K. FAIR. ANOTHER LUCKY DAY! 24 SUNDAY 144-221 (73) KAINDI / I, NOT FEELING WELL. WAK (R'S BOY) MADE A LITTLE SNARE + I CAUGHT OUR SMALLEST MOUSE TO DATE - A LORENTZIMYS (GRAY HEAD, BROWN BODY, LONG NARROW EARS). LAST NIGHT WE SAW 2 POSSUMS + I SHOT ONE, A LITTLE BROWN-HEADED RING-TAIL. WE ALSO BAGGED A pIPISTRELLE (RICHARD). BEAUTIFUL MOON. GOOD FROG CHORUS. R. SHOT A LARGE PIGEON. MADE UP THE ASTRAPIA (B.O.P.) TODAY. TURNED OUT VERY WELL. JACKED SLATE: SAW SILA-S TRAPS; SLATE CREEK 9 STEELS; 14 RAT. KAINDI; HETANA 20 RAT AGAIN. SET TRA

5th Month MAY 1959 31 Days Mostly Fair. 25 MONDAY 145-220 (74) Kaindi Ran our trap line on the Slate. Nothing but a water bird. Set 2 live traps under fruiting tree that John found a week ago. Set 4 rats in Sila Sila tree. 1 R. niobe in traps. At 11:30 Horrie's boys showed up with 1 Doreopsulus, 3 ring-tails, +1 giant Hyomys! Every body pitched in and we soon had the lot measured, weighed + skinned, All a bit high. Did not finish making up until after supper. Hyomys is largest I have seen - 32 in.! John + Richard walked 2-3 mi. out on Bulldog Tract. No luck jacking. Traps: Slate Cr. 9 steel, 14 rat, 4 rat (tree), 2 live, Kaindi: Hetana - 20 rat. Early cloud. Pleasant day. ette 26 TUESDAY 146-219 (75) Kaindi Last night warmest in days. Went to Slate Cr., + a real prize - Para Hydromys! First one I have ever seen. Took care in skin- ing + making it up. Saved body. Horrie's boy brought down shull of tree climbing Kangaroo. Boys left it on porch + dogs ruined it - then boys ate it! Out in P.M. to look in old gold mine drives for bats. Nothing but small Miniopterus. Waited aternals of Watut + Bulldo trails until dusk + then hacked home. No luck. Kim had birthday dinner + cake for Len. Excellent! Fair. 27 WEDNESDAY 147-218 (76) Kaindi: Len's 59th Birthday John left with Richard to meet Zenag truck at Bulolo. Home + took boys to pick up 19 rat traps, 7 steels, 2 live along the Slate Creek. A real prize! Peroryctes longicaudata ornata - a beautiful dandicoort with broad black stripe down back, 2- black stripes on rump + 1 on back of rear legs. Spent P.M. unpinning specimens; making up wood swallow, pickling birds. Bob Franklin dropped in with a friend for a drink before going dinner + stayed for a birthday supper. Very fine evening, I wrapped + packed all my mammals. 23 species for the camp, 4 from Bulolo, 1 Wru = 27; 124 specimens in all. No traps out tonight. Len had a most pleasant birthday + enjoyed Talking about Woodlarn Is, with Frank Brandon. To bed tired.

31 Days MAY 1959 5th Month RAIN AT 9: IN LAE OVERCAST AT K., FAIR AT ZENAG, 28 THURSDAY 148-217 (7) KAINDI TO LAE UP EARLY. FINISHED CLEARING HOUSE + PACKING ROVER. OFF AT 7:30 A.M. NOT TOO SORRY TO SAY GOODBYE TO THIS "CAMP." ROAD TO WAU GOOD. SAW MRS. R. FRANKLIN. STOPPED TO SEE TIM SINCLAIR A.D.O. TITAN TO BULOLD TO SEE JOE HAVEL WHO HAD A MELOMYS + ECHYMIPERA FOR ME! ETHER ON HAND. ONTO ZENAGE (60 MI. FROM K.) HAD LUNCH WITH MICK + TERNETTE LEAHY, MUSCOVY DUCK. STAN BEST + RICHARD L. THERE. LEFT 1:45. STOPPED AT GURAKOR TO SEE MR. G. HORRORT, THEN LIONEL BAKER WHO HAD 3 POGONOMYS, 2 EMB. + 2 PIP. UNLOADED AT FORESTRY. HOME TO BUNTING'S HOUSE. DINNER, HOTEL CECIL. BASKETBALL GAME, FAIR + DRIPPING HOT IN GO-DOWN. 29 FRIDAY 149-216 (78) LAE MADE UP OUR 2 SKINS. TOTAL NOW 3'77 MAMMALS. CATALOGED BAKER'S GIFT. PACKED SPECIMENS IN KNOCKDOWN BOXES. SPENT AFTERNOON SORTING + PACKING + WE G pro MATERIAL TO BE SENT TO GOROKA BY ROVER + TRAILER. PLAN IS FOR J.C. + LEN (EDEWAWA + SONI) TO DRIVE TO HIGHLANDS (2 DAYS) - LEAVING MONDAY. I WILL TAKE GOV. CHARTER PLANE ON WEDNESDAY WITH KIM, HETANA + LILIK (SOME CARGO), + DON VERNON. LETTERS FROM KAY + MIMI. ALL GOES WELL AT HOME - BABY, SCHOOL, HODY'S COURES. MAIL TAKING ABOUT A WEEK. TO BED EARLY. TIRED. CLOUD + SUNSHINE. HOT. 30 SATURDAY 150-215 (79) LAE JOHN GUNN CALLED W. 4 SNAKES, 1 LIZARD. WE WERE INVITED TO OUTDOOR GRILLED DINNER AT LIONEL + DONNIE BAKER'S AT OOMSIS. I DROVE LEN OUT ABOUT 6 P.M. BEAUTIFUL SUNSET UP THE MARK- HAM VALLEY. LOVELY FRESH AIR, DELIGHTFUL GARDEN, EXCELLENT STEAK, SAUSAGE, PIT-PIT, TOMATOES, CUCUMBERS, CAKE. LUCY + TED HENTY, JOHN W., MRS. (Kitty) GINTER, ARTHUR ABRAHAMS (PEANUTS + COCOA). HOME AT 11:15. WE WORKED IN FORESTRY SHED ALL DAY ORGANIZING FOR TRIP TO WILHELM. SHOWERS + SUNSHINE 31 SUNDAY 151-214 (80) LAE LATE BREAKFAST 8:15! WORKED ON WET SPECIMENS AT GO-DOWN ALL MORNING. J.C. BROUGHT MR. + MRS. ROBERT BOYLE + MRS. DIAMOND FOR VISIT. BOB RESPONSIBLE FOR KAINDI REPEATER STATION. JOHN W. + JONATHAN IN FOR A CHAT. WORKED ALL P.M. ON WET SPECIMENS. JOHN PACKED TRUCK + TRAILER FOR TRIP TO GOROKA TOMORROW. NEW SLAT HOUSE FINISHED.

6th Month JUNE 1959 30 Days FAIR + WARM 1 June MONDAY 152-213 (81) LAE T.C. + then, EDWAWA + SONI TOOK OFF IN ROVER AT 7:45. FORGOT COOK BOX BUT KIM INTERCEPTED THEM NEAR B.P.S SHOULD BE IN GOROKA BY TUES. P.M. DID ERRANDS IN A.M. JOHN WOMERSLEY ARRANGED FOR TOBACO + GOLD-LIP SHELL (FOR EATING PIGS + SPECIMENS). JOHN GUNN CALLED TO SAY THAT THE UMBOI II, JUST IN FROM ROOKE IS, HAD BROUGHT SNAKES + TREE-CLIMBING IT. I DENDROLAGUS RATHER CROCK 50 DR. SMYTHE + I WEMBUTOLED IT. T.G. ALSO GAVE ME A SMALL PYTHON. BILL ALSO PRESENTED ME WITH 2 LIVE DEATH ADDERS, TO DINNER WITH THE SMYTHE'S (BARBARA). JACK BAKER (A.D.O. KAINANTU + OKAPA) IN. TO BED AT 4:1.A.M. FAIR + WARM 2 TUESDAY 153-212 (82) LAE UP AT 6:30. BILL SMYTHE DROVE ME HOME - IN TIME FOR A CATNAP + BREAKFAST AT 8:15. MALCOLM PICKED ME UP AT 8:45 AND THE BOYS + I GOT STUCK INTO THE TREE CLIMBER + SNAKES. ALL FINISHED BY 11:30. SAW ERIC B. DAVIS (P.O. BOX 21, LAE) ABOUT EVINRUDE FOR DUSTY. MAL CALLED AFTER LUNCH + WE TOOK COLL. BOX 22, TOBACO + GOLD-LIP TO QANTAS FREIGHT OFFICE. WE ARE TO BE AT AIRSTRIP AT 1:15 A.M. TO THE GUNNS FOR DINNER. DELIGHTFUL EVENING. LOOSED THEIR PET' NATIVE CAT IN LIVING ROOM, STRONG TAIL, SAT UP FREQUENTLY. HOME 11:30 FAIR, WITH HEAVY CLOUD. 3 WEDNESDAY 154-211 (83) LAE TO GOROKA UP EARLY, ROLLED SWAG. BREAKFAST 6:45. CAR CALLED AT 7: + TOOK HIM, LIRLIK + HETANA + ME TO AIRPORT. OFF AT 7:55. OVER LAKE WANUM. TOO MUCH CLOUD FOR A REALLY INTERESTING FLIGHT. GOROKA AT 8:45. LEN + JOHN, TEN JAMES, MR. WRIGHT + JIM LEAHY MET US. STAYING AT BUNTING GUEST HOUSE. LOVELY VIEW DOWN VALLEY. UNLOADED ROVER WHICH HAD UNEVENTFUL TRIP TO G. SEGREGATED CARGO FOR ITEGLSUGL + GOROKA RESERVES IN A.M. + REPACKED + WEIGHED IN P.M. INVITED TO THE WILSONS FOR DRINKS AT 7: MET SISTER MULCAHY, WHOM WE KNEW IN SAMARAI. HOME FOR DINNER WITH KEN JAMES (MRS. BUNTING'S BROTHER), D.C., BILL SEEL, MRS. SEEL, MR. + MRS. SMITH (SHE A FIGURE SITATER) + A SISTER THERE, A VERY DELIGHTFUL EVENING! THE D.C., MAY VISIT US ON MT. WILHELM.

30 Days JUNE 1959 6th Month FAIR A.M. RAIN+MIST IN P.M., 4 THURSDAY 155-210 (84) GOROKA GUEST HOUSE MOST COMFORTABLE. GOOD BED. BREAKFAST AT 8:30 AT KEN JAMES' HOUSE. PACKED FOOD SUPPLIES + WEIGHED MOST OF A.M. AFTER LUNCH JOHN+ROD COLLINS DROVE LEN + ME 11 MILES OUT OF TOWN TO DAN LEAHY'S COFFEE PLANTATION. 45 ACRES IN PRODUCTION. TREES CROPPED TO 6 FEET, GROWN IN SHADE. PICKING EVERY TWO WEEKS. WILL PRODUCE 12-15 TONS CHIMBUS WORKING FARM. BENA-BENA RIVER BORDERS FARM. JOINS AGARO ABOUT 2 MILES BELOW. TOOK PICTURES OF BOYS DRYING COFFEE ON TIN ROOF, SOME STOCK + POULTRY. DINNER WITH KEN. NIGHT CHILLY + MISTY. FAIR, BUT HEAVY CLOUD COVER, 5 FRIDAY 156-209 (85) GOROKA CONFERENCE WITH LEN+JOHN ON KEGLSOGL CARRIERS + PLANS. P.O. FOR STAMPS. CHECKED ALL OUR CARGO WEIGHTS AT QANTAS FOR 2 CHARTER FLIGHTS INTO KEGLSOGL. LEN VERY CLOSE IN HIS ESTIMATES. JOHN TOOK ME OVER TO N:GOROKA TO VISIT JOE + MARGARET COLLINS (3 BOYS, 1 GIRL). HAS A PLANING MILL THAT FINISHES LUMBER FROM SAWMILL ON MT. OTTO, RUN BY ROD + MICHAEL COLLINS. JOE BUILT RANCH HOUSE WITH BEAUTIFUL VIEW OVER VALLEY. WROTE LETTERS TO KAY, BOB ORR + DR. ANTHONY. MY WIDE-Brimmed BUSH HAT THAT JOHN ORDERED FROM SYD NEY ARRIVED. GOOD FOR RAIN + SUN. DINNER WITH KEN JAMES + TO BED EARLY. HIGH OVERCAST. RAIN AT 5:P.M., 6 SATURDAY 157-208 (86) GOROKA TO KEGLSOGL UP AT 6: JOE COLLINS TOOK ME TO AIRPORT. CAPT. ROSS CRABBIE TO TAKE US IN! ALSO HAS ANOTHER PILOT CAPT. TIM TAYLOR IN PLANE. WE ARE 1ST CHARTER FOR THE OTTER. JOHN + BOYS + I TOOK OFF AT 7:12, LANDED 7:33 AFTER A STIFF CLIMB UP THRU BUNDI GAP (9500). DROPPED INTO K. WITH OUR HEAVY LOAD WITH NO TROU BLE. 3 CATHOLIC PRIESTS WHO HAD WALKED IN FROM MADANG TO SUMMIT MT.W. WAITING FOR PULLE + GRASS HOUSE FOR BOYS. WE RIGGED TENT. FATHER JOE TO FLY THEM OUT. MEN BUILT. TOOK MANY PICTURES. CROWDS AROUND ALL DAY. BLUE SKY. CLOUD OVER WILHELM, 7 SUNDAY 158-207 (87) KEGLSOGL 8400 FT. WE WILL CLIMB TO LAKES AT 11,500 TOMORROW SO WILL ORGANIZE CARRIER LOADS. JOHN HAS BAD COLD. MINE IS BETTER. HIGH OVERCAST BY 2:P.M. ESTIMATE NEED 52 CARRIERS. PEOPLE VERY CURIOUS ABOUT OUR ACTIVITIES. NEARLY ALWAYS A FEW DOZEN BOYS, MEN + SOME MARYS JUST STAND + WATCH US. TAKES GETTING USED TO! SEVERAL PLANES WENT THRU BUNDI GAP TODAY.

6th Month JUNE 1959 30 Days 11,600 HIGH OVERCAST. 8 MONDAY 159-206 [illegible] KEGLSUGL TO LAKE AUNDE UP EARLY. QUICK BREAKFAST. CARRIERS STRAGGLED IN; GREAT CON- FUSION OVER LOADS. OFF AT 8 P.M. CROSSED BIG BROOK AT 9:00. UP TO LIP OF GLACIATED VALLEY AT 11:00. TO DOUBLE WATER FALL AT 12:05 P.M. LAKE A. 12:45. LEN IN AT 1:15. A HARD CLIMB AT OUR AGES. MADE MY OWN PACE. WET TRAILS. NO RAIN. BOOTS VERY GOOD. SLEEPING IN A GRASS HUT TONIGHT WITH FLY THROWN OVER TOP. SOME MEN SLEEPING HERE. JOHN BETTER. KIM SICK. TO- MORROW WILL MAKE COMFORTABLE CAMP. BEAUTIFUL CAMP SITE OVERCAST, LITTLE SUN. SHOWERS. 9 TUESDAY 160-205 [illegible] LAKE AUNDE, MT. WILHELM A HECTIC DAY. LEN + JOHN SICK. SLEPT WARM. WE ARE GIVING OUR GRASS HUT TO BOYS. MEN ARE BUILDING A NEW + LARGER ONE FOR US — POLES + GRASS. HEAPS OF GRASS ON FLOOR. SWAGS + SLEEPING BAG VERY COMFORTABLE. FIRE AREA IN MIDDLE OF HOUSE. SMOKE FINDS ITS WAY OUT THRU GRASS ROOF + SIDES. PACKS FOR CLOTHES, FOOD + KITCHEN GEAR. VERY PHOTOGENIC! MADE UP 3 KEGLSUGL PETAURUS. SHOULD BE TAF A BUT DIFFICULT TO COMPARE WITHOUT LOW- LAND SKINS. BOUGHT A PYGMY POSSUM EUDROMICIA + 2 RATTUS. E. SAID TO MAKE NEST OVER OLD BIRD'S NEST. HETANA 10 MUS. SPEC. V.D. 10 M.S.P. NO HACKING. RIDGES CLEAR. BEAUTIFUL DAY. 25° (6:45AM) 10 WEDNESDAY 161-204 [illegible] MT. W. LAKE AUNDE MOON: FAIR NIGHT'S SLEEP IN NEW GRASS HOUSE. LEN SICK — LOW FEVER. JOHN MUCH BETTER. HETANA + I EACH HAD 2 RATTUS IN 10 TRAPS. WE BOUGHT 6 MORE FROM SMALL BOYS WHO HAVE SNARES EVERYWHERE; LITH LIT ILL BUT SKINNED 3 IN WARM TENT. HETANA FELL SICK AFTER SKINNING 3. ALL DOWN EXCEPT EDEWAWA WHO WORKED ON POLE TABLE IN WORK TENT. MEN BUSY BUILDING GRASS HOUSE FOR COOK — WHEN WELL; KIM HAS BEEN HARDEST HIT OF ALL. MY WIND STILL SHORT. CAMP IS IN 2ND STEP OF GLACIATED VALLEY, LAKES IN 1ST + 2ND STEPS. HANG- ING WATER FALLS IN SEVERAL PLACES. OUR HOUSES + TENTS ON A KNOLL EAST OF LAKE. VALLEY ORIENTED E-W. CAN SEE MTS. OF HUON PENINSULA IN FAR N.E. KEGLSUGL STRIP CAN BE SEEN FROM NORTH RIDGE ABOVE CAMP. PHOTOGRAPHIC PLANE OVER MT. IN A.M. JC3 THRU BUNDI GAP. INTERESTING VEGETATION; WAK IS COOKING FOR US. CORNED BEEF, KAU KAU, TEA W. PWD. MILK, RUM + SUGAR.

30 Days JUNE 1959 6th Month CLOUD + SUN. SOME SHOWERS. 11 THURSDAY 162-203 (91) MT. W.; LAKE AUNDE. 2 RATTUS + 1 BIRD IN 10 M. SP. WAR, 1 RATTUS + 1 HYOMYS IN 10 STEEL. H. DID NOT RUN HIS. SMALL BOYS BROUGHT IN ABOUT 20 RATTUS + 1 MAN SNARED 2 POGONOMELOMYS IN GRASS. ANOTHER A PSEUDOCHIURUS; ALSO A HYOMYS. LOCALS BROUGHT UP 2 BLACK-STRIPED PERORYCTES. TODAY THE MARYS BROUGHT IN SEVERAL HUNDRED POUNDS, ORDERLY CONFUSION WHILE JOHN PAID THEM OFF (id. ENG. POTATOES, CABBAGE, TOMATOES, YZD., KRAU-KAU). TOOK SEVERAL PICTURES. LIK LIK + HETANA + KIM STILL SICK. KIM MADE A DAMPER—VERY GOOD. LIK LIK SKINNED ONE HYOMYS. JOHN CLIMBED TO BOMBER WRECK (13,400 FT.). LEN MADE 1ST COLLECTION: HIGH OVERCAST. SOME SUN. 12 FRIDAY 163-202 (92) MT. W.; LAKE AUNDE A RATHER HECTIC DAY. H.+LIK LIK SICK BUT GOT THEM TO DO A LITTLE WORK.! MORE PERORYCTES (NEAR CAMP). GOT ALL THE BANDICOOTS SKINNED OUT + STAYED UP AFTER DINNER TO MAKE THEM UP. LOTS OF LARGE FLEAS! JOHN CLIMBED UP TO TOP LAKE + TRIED NORTH BANK—SHEER. COLLECTED A FEW PLANTS FOR LEN: GOOD. VALLEY ORIENTED ALMOST E+W, SO THAT WE CAN LOOK ENE TO RAMU-MARKHAM VALLEYS. N. RIDGE ABOVE CAMP IS CLOSE+NOT STEEP. S. RIDGE MORE RUGGED+ LOOKS INTO LARGE VALLEY WITH LAKE. JOHN MAY EXPLORE IT NEXT WEEK. OUR GRASS HOUSE VERY COMFORTABLE. FIRE GOING EVERY NIGHT. END OF 3RD MONTH CLEAR EARLY. MIST + RAIN IN P.M. 13 SATURDAY 164-201 (93) MT. WILHELM, LAKE AUNDE A NORMAL DAY AT LAST. MOST OF NATIVES HAVE LEFT THE MOUNTAIN. 1 EUDROMICIA 1 RATTUS + 1 BIRD (SHORT TAIL, WHITE THROAT) IN MY 10 MUS. SP. WAR HAD NONE IN 14 STEELS. HETANA 0 IN 10 M. SP. (IF HE RAN LINE). LIK LIK FEELING BETTER. H. SICK AGAIN. BOUGHT 1 EUDROMICIA, 1 POGONOMELOMYS + SEVERAL RATTUS FROM SMALL BOYS (“MONKEYS”). JOHN FIXED MY WORK TENT UP TODAY WITH A SMALL BRANCHES TABLE. MOVED OUT OF LEN’S MALLOMYS TENT. FINISHED UP THE 2 BIG HYOMYS SHINS. TIM COOKING AGAIN. J. SHOT A SALVADORIAN 154 SOUP FOR DINNER. OVERCAST. LITTLE SUN. SHOWER P.M. 14 SUNDAY 165-200 (94) MT. WILHELM, LAKE AUNDE USUAL RATTUS, 1 POGONOMELOMYS. AT 11 P.M. I CLIMBED TO THE UPPER OF THE 2 LAKES (PINDE)—ABOUT 12,200. FROM THERE CLIMBED TO BOMBER WRECK AT 13,200 + A TRAVERSE UP TO THE FINAL S. RIDGE AT 13,500. WALKED TO W. END WHERE SPIRE RISES. COULD NOT SEE S.W. VALLEY—MISTED IN. 2 SMALL SAN SALVADORIAN DUCKS ON PINDE. LAKES HANG ON HIGH BLUFF OVERLOOKING PINDE. DOG DROPPINGS ON RIDGE.

6th Month JUNE 1959 30 Days OVERCAST TURNING INTO BEAUTIFUL P.M. 15 MONDAY 166-199 (95) LAKE FLUNDE, MT. WILHELM JOHN EXPLORED THE TARN I SAW FROM WRECK. ABOUT 80X60; INCLUDING SWAMP 200 X 300, ALTITUDE 13,100 FT. TOOK ALMOST A ROLL WITH MY STEREO CAMERA. I ALSO FIXED MY FLASH GUN. TOOK 2 PICTURES IN OUR GRASS HOUSE. 5 RATTUS IN 22 RATS SET NEAR LAKE. NONE IN 10 M.SP. 0 IN 10 STEEL. WAT PUTTING OUT 5 MORE STEELS TODAY. MADE UP SKINS I LEFT YESTERDAY. YOUNG BOYS BROUGHT UP TWO MELOMYS + 1 3/6 ANTECHINUS FROM SOMEWHERE ABOVE KEGLSUGL. JOHN BROUGHT DOWN DOG DROPPINGS & PLANT SPECIMENS FROM TARN. JACKING FOR 1 HOUR UP NORTH SLOPE. LOVELY 1/4 MOON. MT. CLEAR AT 7:30 P.M. MISTED UP AT 9; AUDIENCE OF SMALL BOYS OVERCAST, TURNING CLEAR AT NOON 16 TUESDAY 167-198 (96) MT. WILHELM, LAKE FLUNDE. JOHN, WAT, + TOBRAM CLIMBED MT. WILHELM TODAY. NOT TROUBLE, AN EASY CLIMB + EXCELLENT WEATHER. JOHN TOOK STEREO + CONTAX - 2 ROLLS. DEPARTED 8:50 TOP 12:20. STAYED 2 HOURS ON SUMMIT. DID NOT EX- PLORE OTHER PEAKS, BUT GOOD VIEW OF ALL. COLD WIND BUT NO SNOW OR ICE IN CREVICES, BOTANICAL SPECIMENS OF INTEREST, ACTUAL RETURN TO CAMP TOOK ONLY 2 HOURS. JACKING FOR 1 HOUR THRU WOODS ON NORTH SLOPE. SAW NOTHING EXCEPT MOTHS. OVERCAST, LITTLE SUN, CLEAR AT DUSK 17 WEDNESDAY 168-197 (97) MT. WILHELM, LAKE FLUNDE A BUSY DAY. 1 BANDICOOT + 1 RATTUS IN TRAPS. NATIVES BROUGHT IN MATERIAL ALL DAY - THE LAST A LARGE RINGTAIL JUST BEFORE DUSK. BADLY CHEWED BY DOG. 1 GIANT MELOMYS, FAWN-COLORED - MOST INTERESTING; SEVERAL GRAY- BASED, VENTRAL HAIRS, MELOMYS. 1 ANTECHINUS, + 1 YOUNG LORENTZIMYS: ALSO ANOTHER ORNATE BANDICOOT - GOOD SERIES OF THESE BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS. LEN VISITED LAKE PINDE TODAY. NOW PAST THE 160 # MARK, COLLECTING GOING WELL; IF ONLY HIS BOYS WOULD STAY WELL. HIKED WITH LEN TODAY IN FIELD. JOHN STRUGGLED TO WRITE UP ACCOUNT OF HIS TRIP YESTERDAY, TRIED TO HELP. WE WILL CHECK STEPS + DIRECTIONS WHEN WE GO UP WILHELM TOGETHER. IF WEATHER LOOKS GOOD JOHN + I WILL TRY FOR SUMMIT TOMORROW. JOHN WANTS TO CLIMB LOWER PEAKS AS WELL. H. ACTED SICK BUT WORKED MOST OF DAY. LIK LIK HIS OLD SELF. KIM JACKING.

30 Days JUNE 1959 6th Month DISTANCE. 18 THURSDAY 169-196 (98) MT. WILHELM, LAKE AUNDE BEAUTIFUL DAY. FEW CUMULUS IN Today I climbed Mt. Wilhelm. Up at 6:30. Quick breakfast. Off alone at 7:20 so I could set my own pace. John, 3 Chimbus, caught me up on Slope above Lake Pinde, Arrived North Peak (True Summit) at 12:10 P.M. Stayed in warm sun until 2: P.M. Many pictures. Flew Explorers Club flag. Found another flag on pole [illegible] WHITE RED. Church flag? Copied all notes found in jars. Mt. Giluwe visible in Papua. Collected bag of plants for Len, mostly on summit ridge, Peak #2 (South) almost as high. John climbed it in 10 minutes on way to camp. Home about 6: P.M. Felt tired but very fit. LEN PASSED 30,000 PLANT NUMBERS TODAY! SMALL BOY BROUGHT IN PSEUDOHYDROMYS Some sun; overcast. 19 FRIDAY 170-195 (99) MT. WILHELM, LAKE AUNDE Busy day trying to catch up from my Holiday. Mammals came in at odd hours all day. Rather hectic. The prize was what I believe to be the 2nd specimen of NEOHYDROMYS, Silver gray, larger skull than PSEUDOHYDROMYS, not as flat. Very shrew-like. Musky odor. Hope we catch a few at our lower camp. Saved bodies in formalin. Today we would have cloud part of time on mountain. We were very lucky! John did the climb twice in 3 days! To Bram, War's brother, was a great help yesterday Moth lamp above camp. 2 species. Demkana Saw-pit man, + chap with bump on forehead were our other companions. Put out Clouds in camp all day. Shower) 20 SATURDAY 171-194 (100) MT. WILHELM, LAKE AUNDE Worked intent all day. Kim 3 Rattus in 15 rat, 5 M.Sp.; Likliko in 10 M.Sp. War 1 Bandicoot; 1 PSEUDOCHIURUS in 14 steel. Boys brought in 2 sp. Melomys, Pogonomelomys. Caught up on my backlog of skins to be made up. Hetana out today. Sharp shower, just before dinner, came thru our grass roof which had dried out during our dry spell. A fly soon fixed it. Kim made fine Shepherds pie. Delicious crust. Len took flash pictures in hut. 1. Found 2 rare Cloud in A.M. Rain in P.M. 21 SUNDAY 172-193 (101) MT. WILHELM, LAKE AUNDE. A hectic day. Boys brought in 30 odd mammals, including a 2nd NEOHYDROMYS LORENTZIMYS, 5 ANTECHINUS, WHITE-BELLIED + GRAY-BELLIED POGONOMELMYS, 2 species of MELOMYS, + POGONOMELMYS. Only 4 Rattus in our traps. Took advantage of wet day to put small boys on to catching frogs in humus, 65 turned up! Pay at first in silver, then tobacco & salt. Len worked on Mt. N. climbing records. DEMKANA, TEACHER, TOBRAM

6th Month JUNE 1959 30 Days P.M. OVERCAST RAIN BEFORE 7: A.M. SOME SUN IN A.M., 22 MONDAY 173-192 (102) MT. WILHELM, LAKE FLUNDE WOKED TO SEE SNOW ON MOUNTAIN ABOVE 13500 LEVEL. TOOK PICTURES. ONE PREVIOUS A.M. WITH SNOW. HAD DISAPPEARED BY EARLY P.M. JOHN OFF LATE A.M. TO ESTABLISH OUR #2 CAMP AT ABOUT 9000' NEAR LARGE MT. STREAM ABOVE KEGLSUGL. SMALL BOYS BROUGHT A SELECT VARIETY OF ANTECHINUS, EUDROMICIA, POGONOMELOMS + MELOMYS TODAY. BUSY ALL DAY UNPINNING, MEASURING, MAKING UP. A.M. GOOD FOR DRYING, PASSED 600 MARK TODAY; LEN ALMOST TO 300 #S FOR CAMP. KIM BAKED ANOTHER FINE 5MS.15R. M.S. MS. BATCH OF BREAD. NOTHING IN TRAPS LAST NIGHT. HIM 20, H.20, L.L.20 OUT TONIGHT. OVERCAST. SOME SUN IN A.M., BUT MOSTLY 23 TUESDAY 174-191 (103) MT. WILHELM, LAKE FLUNDE DAY BEGAN QUIETLY BUT WORK PICKED UP WHEN SMALL BOYS BEGAN BRINGING IN SPECIMENS. ANTECHINUS, POGONOMYS, MELOMYS AND A PSEUDO HYDROMYS! ABOUT 10:30 A MERI ARRIVED TO PICK UP SOME KAU-KAU FOR JOHN. NOTE Said WORK ON CAMP GOING WELL. LEN ON NORTH RIDGE FOR A LONG MORNING. WENT OVER 300 #S FOR THIS CAMP. COLLECTED A HUGE NEW RASPBERRY-1 BERRY WEIGHED 1 OZ.! SAVING SEEDS. ABOUT 1: P.M., 2 YOUNG KAY CATHOLICS FROM MADANG WALKED INTO CAMP (PAUL SEGER, HERRMANN SIEHLAND). WILL CLIMB MT.W. IN A.M. BOTH GERMAN + VERY PLEASANT. SMALL BOY BROUGHT IN TREE FROGS. PEAKS IN CLOUDS. SUN AM + P.M., RAIN 24 WEDNESDAY 175-190 (104) MT. WILHELM, LAKE FLUNDE OUR 2 FRIENDS WERE OFF AT 5: A.M. FOR THE MOUNTAIN, WITH THEIR BOYS. RAN INTO SNOW AT HIGH ALTITUDE + BOYS CAME HOME AT 10:. PAUL + H: HOME ABOUT 12:30. PLAIN BAD LUCK WITH WEATHER. IF THEY HAD STAYED ON MOUNTAIN THEY WOULD HAVE HAD A FAIRLY CLEAR HOUR OR TWO. LEFT FOR KEGLSUGL ABOUT 3: PICTURES. MY FIRST QUIET DAY. GAVE ME A CHANCE TO UNPIN + WRAP QUITE A FEW SPECI- MENS, 4 LOCAL RATTUS + 3 ANTECHINUS CAME UP FROM BELOW. HAD FIRST CHANCE TO WRITE LETTER IN DAYS - TO "STAFF, MONTCLAIR GOLF CLUB"; LEN HAD GOOD COLLECTING DOWN THE VALLEY (NOW 340 #S). GO TRAPS OUT TONIGHT. NO LOCALS IN CAMP TONIGHT EXCEPT WOOD CUTTER. VERY PEACEFUL. HOWEVER, WE WILL HAVE TO CONTROL THE SIGHTSEERS AT #2 CAMP - LESS THAN 1 HOUR FROM KEGLSUGL. NOTE FROM JOHN ASKING FOR SALT, TOBACO + PAPER. HE WILL PROBABLY RETURN TO CAMP TOMORROW; NATIVES BROUGHT DOWN BINGGA FERN

30 Days JUNE 1959 6th Month OVERCAST, MOSTLY. SOME SUN. 25 THURSDAY 176-189 (105) MT. WILHELM, LAKE AUNDE QUIET MORNING - 4 RATTUS + 1 POGONOMELOMYS FROM GRASS BELOW TEMP. SHED. SMALL BOYS ARRIVED ABOUT NOON WITH ANOTHER NEOHYDROMYS!, 2 ANTECHINUS, AND A RING-TAIL NEW TO ME - STRIKINGLY MARKED ABOUT THE HEAD WITH BROWN + BLACK - MAY BE P. MAYERI, ONLY 1 SPECIMEN KNOWN FROM T.N.G. (TOMBA). IN P.M. LIK LIK + I CLIMBED HALFWAY UP SOUTH RIDGE TO LARGE BOULDER WHERE JOHN HAD NOTICED SOME OWL PELLETS. SPENT 2 HOURS SIFTING DIRT FOR ODD BONES AS WELL AS COLLECT- ING INTACT PELLETS. A VERY FINE COLLECTION. 2 FEATHERS FROM OWL, TOO, PICS OF SMALL HOUSE; L.L. AT ROCK, + LL + CAMP IN DISTANCE. MISTY NIGHT, BLUE SKY DAY UP HERE, CLOUD 26 FRIDAY 177-188 (106) MT. WILHELM, LAKE AUNDE BOARDS QUIET DAY. 2 POGONOMELOMYS, 2 RATTUS. CLEANED + WRAPPED SPECIMENS. PUT SKULLS IN TIN CANS. DRIED OWL PELLETS. LEN CLIMBED TRAIL TO LEFT PYRAMID TODAY + IS NOW WITHIN REACH OF 400 #S. BEAUTIFUL CLOUD EFFECTS OVER MT. PEAKS AT NOON - SEVERAL PICTURES. ALSO 1 OF CAMP. JOHN ARRIVED BACK IN CAMP IN P.M. HAS #2 CAMP ALL SET UP FOR US. SAYS IT IS WARM THERE IN TREES. HAVE FOUND TOP CAMP MUCH WARMER THAN I EXPECTED. I CAME PREPARED FOR REALLY COLD MT. WEATHER, MT. MANEAU COLDER. PICTURES OF CLOUDS AT SUNSET. PIGEON SOUP TONIGHT. WAK SHOT WITH BOW + ARROW. LETTER TO B. MARLOW. STILL NO MAIL. ANOTHER LOVELY DAY. SOME CUM - 27 SATURDAY 178-187 (107) MT. WILHELM, LAKE AUNDE JOHN LEFT AT 9:55 A.M. FOR HIS DIRECT EAST APPROACH TO MT. W'S MAIN PEAK (I.E. VIA THE NORTH RIDGE OF THE P.A. VALLEY, WHICH RUNS E-W). ARRIVED SUMMIT 2:45 AFTER HARD, TORTUOUS CLIMB. ALTIMETER 15050 FT. HOME AT 5 P.M. VIA SOUTHERN ROUTE WHICH IS LONGER BUT EASIER BY FAR. ONLY 3 RATTUS TODAY. WRAPPED A FEW SPECIMENS. TOOK A FEW PICTURES. REALLY MY FIRST LAZY DAY IN THIS CAMP, HAD A GOOD WARM BATH; KIM'S TRAPS IN. WATCHED SMALL BOYS FIX STEAM PIT FOR KAU-KAU + CABBAGE. THIS IS JOHN'S 3RD CLIMB UP MT. W.! FAIR, WITH SOME CLOUD FROM N. 28 SUNDAY 179-186 (108) MT. WILHELM, LAKE AUNDE 1 RATTUS ONLY, BUT OUR FIRST PSEUDOSCORPIONS! ALSO FLEAS + MITES. MORE PACKING; WRAPPED ALL FORMALIN SPECIMENS. KNOCKDOWN BOX FULL - CARRYING LEN'S MOSSSES, TOO, HERP CAN FULL. JOHN LEFT AT 2 P.M. WITH MAIL. WROTE K., D. + BILL, HOBY + MIMI, DON CARTER. PICTURES OF PEAKS IN LATE P.M. - BEAUTIFUL CLOUD EFFECTS. LEN NOW HAS 384 #S. HAVE CATALOGED 267 #S MAMMALS. HERPS , BOYS SINGING TONIGHT. HAPPY TO LEAVE CAMP. LEN WILL LEAVE EARLY TOMORROW. CARRIERS UP ABOUT 10 OR 11!

6th & 7th Months JUNE & JULY 1959 30 & 31 Days FAIR WITH SOME HIGH CLOUD. 29 MONDAY 180-185 (109) LAKE AUNDE TO PENGAEL THE DAY OUR BOYS HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR! IT HAS BEEN A SCENIC CAMP BUT THE ALTITUDE A BIT TRYING. IT WILL LIVE ON IN OUR PICTURES, LEN LEFT EARLY TO BOTANIZE SLOWLY ON WAY DOWN. JOHN WAS UP WITH CREW OF CARRIERS AT 9:15. HIK LIL + I CLOSED CAMPATIO; P.M. + STARTED DOWN, TAKING PICTURES. LEN WOUND UP WITH 404#S FOR ALPINE + SUBALPINE ZONES — A VERY FINE COLLECTION. REACHED OUR CREEK CAMP AT NOON. CARRIERS ALL HERE. JOHN HAS BUILT A MAGNIFICENT HOUSE PLUS +2 WINDOWS FIREPLACE + CHIMNEY! POLE BEDS. JOHN SHOT 2 PIPISTRELLUS TONIGHT OVER CREEK FAIR IN A.M. SOME RAIN IN P.M. + NITE. 30 TUESDAY 181-184 (110) PENGAEL CREEK (MT.W.) MADE UP JOHN'S 2 PIPISTRELLUS. LATER 2 MARSUPIAL MICE + 1 SYCONYCTERIS TURNED UP WITH SMALL BOYS, HIK LIL + HETANA BUILT PATTAS FOR COLLECTING BOXES + SUPPLY BOX + FOR SPECIMEN TRAYS. FLOOR A BIT WET BUT A FEW SUNNY DAYS WILL DRY IT OUT. 45 TRAPS OUT TONIGHT. JOHN + I CUT A SHORT TRACK IN DIRECTION OF WEST RIDGE ABOVE CAMP (S SIDE OF CREEK). BAT SHOOTING TONIGHT — HIT 1 PIPISTRELLUS. MY TENT IS ON A HIGH FLOOD BANK OF P. CREEK, A GOOD SKIN DRYING SPOT. ALTIMETER 9600' ALL DAY. WE ARE IN A MIXED UP FOREST. IT WILL TAKE LEN A FEW DAYS TO WORK FAIR MOST OF DAY. HIGH CLOUD. 1 July WEDNESDAY 182-183 (11) MT.W. (EAST SLOPES), P.CR. 2 RATTUS + 2 MELOMYS ON TRAPS. BOYS, 2 RATTUS. CUT MORE TRACK TOWARDS RIDGE. TONIGHT TOBRAM + I JACKED THIS TRAIL VERY CAREFULLY. NEITHER SAW NOR HEARD A MAMMAL. QUIET, DRY — A GOOD JACKING NIGHT. BOUGHT A FEW FROGS TODAY FROM SMALL BOYS (4/ STICK OF TOBACO OR SINGLE SHEET OF NEWSPAPER/I). COLLECTED SEVERAL SPECIMENS OF MOSS FOR LEN. ALSO FOUND SOME SCRAMBLING BAMBOO IN FLOWER — 2ND TIME THIS TRIP. LEN SAYS ONE MAY GO WHOLE TRIP WITHOUT FINDING IT. KIM BAKED ANOTHER FINE BATCH OF BREAD. SOME TASTY SCALLIONS FOR LUNCH. WE HAVE: MAIN "LODGE", COOK HOUSE, SMALL HOUSE, BATH ENCLOSURE, BOY HOUSE, CHIMBU GUEST HOUSE + 2 WORK TENTS IN OUR "VILLAGE". LOOKS VERY IMPRESSIVE: SAW A LONG-TAILED ED BIRD OF PARADISE FLY ACROSS CREEK TODAY. DANCING TREE NEARBY. MEN WOULD NOT PERMIT JOHN TO CUT TREE WHEN MAKING CAMP. VERY PARTICULAR ABOUT [illegible]

31 Days JULY 1959 7th Month Wrote Mrs. Koenig. IN P.M. MOSTLY OVERCAST, SOME RAIN 2 THURSDAY 183-182 (112) PENGA GL CREEK ONLY 2 RATTUS IN MY 15 TRAPS. BOYS 0. BOUGHT 2 ANTECHINUS + 1 RATTUS. TONIGHT WE HAVE 116 TRAPS OUT. JOHN TOOK SOME STEELS + TRAPS DOWN TO FUNC- TION OF OUR CREEK + P.A. CREEK. I HAVE A MEAT SET WITH CONCEALED STEELS, LEN STILL PUZZLED ABOUT FOREST. COLLECTED A CANOPY TREE TODAY. JOHN + I FAILED TO SHOOT A PIPISTRELLE TONIGHT -- FIRST MISS: JOHN + I JACKED DOWN THE KEGLSUGL TRACK UNTIL 9:30. SAW + HEARD NO MAMMALS. GOOD FROG CHORUS. COLLECTED 2 (1/3 SEC.) - SMALL. MAN BROUGHT IN 2 LARGE HUMUS FROGS. KIM + LHIKIK CUT JACKING TONIGHT; STEW + DUMPLINGS (LIGHT!) FOR DINNER. FRESH TOMATOES) MOSTLY CLOUDY, LIGHT RAIN EVENING 3 FRIDAY 184-181 (113) MT.W., PENGA GL CREEK; AT LONG LAST OUR OVERDUE MAIL ARRIVED. BROUGHT BY KENDUA FROM MISSION VIA A.D.O. AT KUNDIWA. 3 LETTERS FROM IT. (6-7+6-15); DOL CARTER WITH GOOD NEWS ABOUT TIM OLIVER - NEW AMNH. DIRECTOR; ALSO FROM JOHN GUNN - TO MELBOURNE ZOO; DUSTY MILLER THANKING FOR OUTBOARD ARRANGEMENTS. JOHN'S STEELS BROUGHT IN 1ST PARAHYDROMYS RECORDED FROM MT.W. - AT JUNCTION OF OUR CREEK WITH PIUNDE-FLUNDE CR. 3 RATTUS 2 SPECIES MELOMYS + 1 ANTECHINUS. GOOD FLEA DAY ON RATS. EVERYONE SET TO JACK BUT DRIZZLE SET IN EARLY. NO LUCK WITH PIPISTRELLES. READ TIME. CLOUDY. RAIN FROM 3 P.M. 4 SATURDAY 185-180 (114) MT.W., PENGA GL CREEK USUAL RATTUS IN TRAPS (3). JOHN'S DOWN STREAM STEELS YIELDED A FINE PARAHYDROMYS - OUR 2ND. THIS P.M. 2 BOYS BROUGHT IN A NEW POGONO- MYS? - 2 SPECIMENS. IT HAS ME PUZZLED. BUILDS NEST ABOVE GROUND IN PIT-PIT (WILD SUGAR CANE). CHIMBU NAME "GOU". JOHN TOOK LEN'S PLANT BUNDLES DOWN TO KEGLSUGL TODAY FOR STORAGE AT THE STRIP. HOT BATH IN RAIN THIS P.M. JACKING UP CREEK FOR 1 1/2 HRS - NOTHING EXCEPT 2 FROGS, SAW DOG. HEAVY OVERCAST. RAIN. 5 SUNDAY 186-179 (115) MT. WILHELM, PENGA GL CREEK SHOT 1 PIPISTRELLE LAST NIGHT. DOG RAN MY TRAP LINE - SMALL STEELS ALL SPRUNG - BODIES GONE. 4 M. SP. PULLED OUT OF PLACE. BOYS BROUGHT UP OUR FIRST RATTUS RUBER FROM BELOW. WROTE K., TIM OLIVER, JOHN GUNN, KEN SLATER, AILSA, LORDS, BOB FOX. ALSO SENT OUT 2 ROLLS OF FILM. STRAWBERRIES + CREAM FOR DESERT. HAD MY FIRST CAPE GOOSEBERRIES

7th Month JULY 1959 31 Days FATHER JOE CAME IN EARLY + OUR MAIL MISSED THE PLANE! LITTLE SUN, OVERCAST, RAIN IN P.M. 6 MONDAY 187-178 (116) MT. W. PENGAGL CREEK BUSY DAY. 1 MELOMYS, 1 RATTUS, JOHN'S 2 PIPISTRELLUS FROM SAW PIT CLEARING LAST NIGHT, ANOTHER PARAHYDROMYS, 2 POGONOMYS WHICH EDEWAWA + SAUNI FOUND IN A PANDANUS TREE (NEST), A SANDY MELOMYS WHICH BOYS BROUGHT UP FROM BELOW (THEY ALSO BROUGHT IN 3 LIVE PE- TAURUS - 2/0 EACH). EVERYONE OUT HUNTING TONIGHT. KIM + LIL HIK FIRED AT A TREE RAT BUT MISSED. NO ONE ELSE SAW ANYTHING, I FOUND A PIGEON IN A RAT TRAP, + COLLECTED 1 STREAM FROG. SET MY STEEL MEAT BAIT TRAPS. POOREST BAT FLIGHT SINCE WE ARRIVED HERE SUN IN A.M. OVERCAST P.M. 7 TUESDAY 188-177 (117) MT. W. PENGAGL CREEK MY FIRST ANTECHINUS, IN A M. SP. HETANA HAD OUR FIRST GIANT BROWN MELOMYS FOR THE CAMP. ALSO 3 RATTUS NIOBE, MADE UP THE 3 PETAURUS B. TAF A SMALL BOYS BROUGHT UP YESTERDAY. JOHN GAVE ME MY FIRST HAIRCUT SINCE LAE. THEN I TRIED TO CUT HIS - NOT BAD FOR A FIRST EFFORT! HE IS AN EXPERT. JOHN RESET HIS LINE OF STEELS + RATS DOWN THE CREEK 2 MILES TO JUNCTION OF 3RD STREAM FROM THE N. HE HAD NOTHING TODAY. LEN IS HAVING GOOD COLLECTING NEAR CAMP. 8 WEDNESDAY 189-176 (118) MT. W. PENGAGL CREEK

31 Days JULY 1959 7th Month INCLUD, THEN SUN, RAIN IN P.M. 9 THURSDAY 190-175 (119) PENGAGL CREEK, MT.W. NO ONE HAD MAMMALS IN TRAPS EXCEPT JOHN WHO CAME IN LATE WITH A H TH PARAHYDROMYS. WAK SNARED A RING-TAIL (BROWN-HEAD) UP CREEK NEAR TOM GILLIARD'S OLD CAMP. SMALL BOY BROUGHT IN LARGE BROWN MELOMYS (?) IT HAD VERY LONG LOWER INCISORS (DELICATE). SKULL DOES NOT LOOK LIKE MELOMYS SET NEW TRAP LINE ON JOHN'S CUT TRACK TOWARDS PIUNDE-AUNDE CREEK (15 MS 3 RAT 6 STEEL-HANGING BAIT). LL + H. HAVE NEW LINES. JOHN + TOBRAM CC- SOLIDATED THEIR LINES - SOME UNDERWATER TRAPS (BAITED WITH HAM RIND). RAIN, AS USUAL, AT 8 P.M. JUST AS WE STARTED OUT TACKING. HELPED CATCH LIGHT TRAP INSECTS. KIM HAD LOVELY LIGHT DUMPLINGS FOR DINNER. BED AT 9:30 SOME SUN A.M., SHOWERS P.M., + AT 10 FRIDAY 191-174 (120) MT. WILHELM, PENGAGL CREEK 3 RATTUS 1 MELOMYS IN NEW LINE. HETANA 4 RATTUS 2 MELOMYS, LL 2 RATTUS BOUGHT 5 MELOMYS (DIFF. SPECIES) + 2 EUDROMICIA FROM SMALL BOYS; ALSO 20 ODD SMALL SKINKS. NOTHING IN JOHN'S WATER LINE. JOHN TOOK HETANA DOWN TO PIUNDE-AUNDE CREEK TO SET LINE ON WEST SIDE. MADE UP 18 SKINS TO DAY - AT TABLE FROM 8 A.M. TO 6 P.M. MORE FRESH FOOD CAME IN. TONIGHT WE HAD STRAWBERRIES IN CUSTARD SAUCE, SCALLIONS, CURRY + BROWN RICE, VEGETABLE SOUP, TARO + BUTTER, KIM'S BREAD + MARMITE. THIS POOR BAT FLIGHT LAST WEEK. NONE COLLECTED FOR SEVERAL DAYS. TACKING TO 10: SUN MOST OF DAY! 1 SHOWER P.M. 11 SATURDAY 192-173 (121) MT.W., PENGAGL CREEK 8 RATTUS, 7 MELOMYS, 1 EUDROMICIA (DIED DURING NIGHT), + 1 PSEUDOCHIROS THAT I SHOT IN A EUGENIA TREE ON PIUNDE-AUNDE BROOK TRAIL LAST NIGHT. I FAWN MELOMYS, 22 SKINKS + 6 FROGS FROM SMALL BOYS. GOOD DRYING DAY, UNPIN- NED + PUT UP 2ND KNOCKDOWN BOX. POLICE BOY IN WITH NOTE FROM A.D.O. IN KUNDIAWA SAYING THAT BILL SEALE, D.C. FROM GOROKTA, WOULD FLY INTO K. ON MONDAY FOR A 2 DAY VISIT WITH US. JOHN + I TACKED TO SAWPIT - NOTHING. FIRST OF MANY NIGHTS WITHOUT LIGHT RAIN AND DRIPPING LEAVES. CAUGHT DEMKANA'S DOG IN MY STEEL MEAT SET! NO DAMAGE. 12 SUNDAY 193-172 (122) MT.W., PENGAGL CREEK OUR FIRST BEAUTIFUL CLEAR SUNNY DAY IN THIS CAMP! 5 RATTUS N. + 2 MELOMYS 2 RATTUS EXOLANS FROM BELOW NEW FOR MT.W. COLLECTION. ALSO BOUGHT 2 LIVE EUDROMICIA. TOOK ROLL OF PICTURES OF THEM. VERY TAME, EXPERT CLIMBERS. KENDUA + MANY OTHER VISITORS IN CAMP. SMALL BOYS BROUGHT FROGS + SKINKS. PICTURES OF MEN WITH SPECIMEN TRAYS, + CLOSE-UPS OF SMALL GIRLS. TOBRAM + I HAD A WONDERFUL TACKING NIGHT. HE FOUND A SILKY CUSCUS (TOA) + I FOUND A BROWN-HEADED RING-TAIL (BINDUA) - SMALL. TI EXCITED AS A KID!

7th Month JULY 1959 31 Days LOVELY BLUE DAY - RAIN AT 4:15, 13 MONDAY 194-171 (123) MT. W., PENGAGL CREEK LIKHIK HAD OUR 2ND ANTECHINUS FOR CAMP, MADE UP YG. & EUDROMICIA. 'BILL SEALE + KEN JAMES FLEW IN AT 9:15. LEN + JOHN WALKED DOWN TO MEET THEM. BROUGHT CURRY, COOKIES, BREAD, BUTTER + CHOCOLATE BARS! WELCOME SURPRISE TO SEE KEN. AFTER LUNCH BILL SAT DOWN WITH KEN- DUA (LULUAI) + SEVERAL TUL-TULS. TALKED ABOUT A ROAD TO BUNDI GAP + AN IMPROVED TRACK TO LAKES ON MT. WILHELM, MADE 2 ROLLS PICTURES OF CHIMBUS - SOME GOOD HEADS. BILL WENT TO K. TO VISIT CATH. MISS. SHOT NO BATS. NO JACKING TONIGHT. TALKED AROUND THE FIRE W. K. + BILL ANOTHER FINE DAY. 14 TUESDAY 195-170 (124) MT. WILHELM, PENGAGL CR. BILL + KEN TOOK OFF AT 7:30 FOR LAKE AUNDE WITH JOHN + DEM- KANA. AWAY ALL DAY - LUCKY WITH WEATHER! KIM + WAR JACKED A BIG CUPREUS RING-TAIL, OUR FIRST FOR THIS CAMP, TOBRAM IN WITH A MELOMYS + POGO NOMYS (LOG WATER TRAP). ALSO MADE UP THE PYGMY POSSUMS. BILL + KEN ITOME TIRED BUT HAPPY ABOUT THEIR CLIMB. FINE DINNER. POLICE RUNNER IN WITH MAIL - AT LAST! KAY, DOTTIE, JIM OLIVER NEWS RELEASE, CARD FROM K. IN FLA. APR. 8! WROTE K., LU + GENERAL, WHIPPLE, TEENE, PACKED 16 ROLLS OF FILM FOR KEN TO FLY OUT. TALKED TO 10: SUNNY. GOOD DRYING DAY. 15 WEDNESDAY 196-169 (125) MT. W. PENGAGL CREEK! OUR PRIZE FOR THE DAY WAS ANISOMYS, FIRST FOR THE MOUNTAIN! FULL OF FLEAS! TOOK BLOOD SAMPLES, SAVED THE VISCERA, MADE A SKELETON, TRAPPED BY TOBRAM ON HOG OVER STREAM, PUT UP THE 3 PYGMY POSSUMS THAT I BOUGHT ALIVE YESTERDAY (1/6 A PIECE). A 4TH CAME IN LATE. ONLY 3 RATTUS IN TRAPS. TONIGHT WE HAD 3 JACKING PARTIES IN THE FIELD: KIM; JOHN + WAR; TOBRAM + I. KIM SHOT HIS FIRST CUSCUS OF THE TRIP - A BIG 6 POUNDER, JOHN BROUGHT IN A BROWN-HEADED RING-TAIL, I SHOT AT WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS A TREE MOUSE IN A PANDANUS, BUT TOBRAM COULD FIND NOTHING ON TOP OR ON GROUND, WE WERE OUT 3 HRS. (TO 11:30) AND NEVER SAW ANOTHER MAMMAL. WE DID JOHN'S LOOP TRAIL TO PIUNDE-AUNDE CREEK + HOME OVER THE RIDGE TO THE SWAMP & BOY HOUSE, LOVELY MOONLIGHT NIGHT. KIM COOKED THE CHICKEN FOR DINNER THAT KENDURA PRESENTED TO BILL SEALE + WHICH HE LEFT WITH US. T. A FINE COMPANION.

31 Days JULY 1959 7th Month LITTLE SUN HIGH CLOUD MOST OF DAY. 16 THURSDAY 197-168 MT. WILHELM, PENGA GL CR. 2 RATTUS + 2 MELOMYS IN TRAPS. SAVED SKELETON OF SILKY CUSCUS, JEMKANA, AS USUAL, TOOK THE MEAT + VISCERA OF THE CUSCUS + RINGTAIL. THIS A.M. KENDUA (LULVAI), WAK + A 3RD MAN SET OUT UP STREAM TO CROSS THE WEST RIDGE INTO THE NEXT VALLEY. THEY ARE GOING PARTICULARLY FOR DENDROLAGUS, BUT MAY GET POSSUMS AS WELL. WAK HAS A SHOTGUN + TACK LIGHT. HAVE OFFERED £1 FOR TREE-CLIMBERS, TOOK UP TRAP LINE TODAY. WILL NOW TRAP UPSTREAM. CAMP VERY QUIET TOGRAM + I COLLECTED 16 FROGS AT NIGHT, NOW THAT D.C. HAS LEFT: UNPINNED SPECIMENS. JOHN JACKED A PSEUDOCHIROS PLEASANT DAY 17 FRIDAY 198-167 127 MT. W. PENGA GL CREEK 18 MAMMALS ON THE BOARD TODAY: 3 SPECIES MELOMYS, RATTUS, RING-TAIL, + 2 ORNATE BANDICOTS (HOST TO MANY FLEAS). A LONG DAY - DID NOT FINISH PUT- TING UP ALL SKINS. POLICE RUNNER IN WITH MAIL JUST BEFORE LUNCH, I HAD LETTERS FROM MARY TAYLOR + DR. LORD, WROTE HURRIED NOTE TO DICK VAN GELDER. WAK + PARTY RETURNED FROM NEXT VALLEY WITH ONLY A BROWN-HEADED RING-TAIL TO SHOW. THEY HAD NO DOG WITH THEM, NO ONE IN THE UPPER VALLEY HERE SEEMS TO HAVE A GOOD HUNTING DOG. WITHOUT ONE IT WILL BE PURE LUCK TO FIND A TREE CLIMBER. LEN WORKING A DOUBLE SHIFT WITH DRYING OVEN. HE HAS NOT FOUND OAK OR BEECH YET. NO JACKING. MOON CLOUDED OVER. SUNNY DAY. THUNDERSTORM LATE P.M. 18 SATURDAY 199-166 128 MT. WILHELM, PENGA GL CR. A BUSY CONFUSED DAY. AS USUAL ON SAT. IT WAS VISITING DAY FOR THE CHIMBUS. A STREAM OF SMALL BOYS WITH FROGS + LIZARDS + A FEW RATS (ALSO 1 ANTECHINUS + 1 EUDROMICIA). TOGRAM + JOHN HAD ANOTHER ANISOMYS + 1 PERORYCTES - BOTH IN TRAPS (STEEL) ON LOGS OVER PLUNDE-RUNDE CREEK. H.+ LL. HAD A FAWN MELOMYS + 3 RATTUS. ALSO SKINNED OUT THE RING-TAIL WAK BROUGHT BACK YESTERDAY. JOHN PITCHED IN THIS P.M. TO CATALOG THE HERPS. ANOTHER DAY LIKE THIS WILL PUT US OVER 500. LL.+ H. TACKED - AS DID TOGRAM + I - SAW NOTHING. COLL. 1 FROG. COLD. VP UNTIL 11:30 INJECTING FROGS + LIZARDS, SUNNY DAY. RAIN AT 7 P.M. 19 SUNDAY 200-165 129 MT. W. I, PENGA GL CREEK 43 SPECIMENS. HYDROMYS - A PECULIAR LOOKING SPECIMEN TAKEN BY JOHN IN A STEEL ON A LOG OVER THE PLUNDE-RUNDE CREEK; CERTAINLY AN ALTITUDINAL RE- CORD, ANEW POGONOMY S (SYVESTRIS?). ALSO A POGONOMELOMYS + ASSORTED MELOMYS + RATTUS. JOHN HAS BEEN MOST HELPFUL IN THE RUSH OF THE LAST 2 DAYS. NATIVES BROUGHT 2 PETRAVUS, MELOMYS (3 SP.), EUDROMICIA IN TODAY. ANOTHER VISITING DAY. KIM OUT JACKING TONIGHT. I MADE UP PERORYCTES, LABELED ECTOS + BLOOD SLIDE.

7th Month JULY 1959 31 Days 20 MONDAY 201-164 (130) MT. W. PENGAGL CR. CLEAR AT NIGHT. FAIRLY NICE DAY. RAIN LATE PM. 21 TUESDAY 202-163 (131) MT. W. PENGAGL CREEK BUSY DAY. KIM JACKED A CUSCUS LAST NIGHT, AND JOHN + I FOUND A BROWN-HEADED RING-TAIL DOWN STREAM JUST BEHIND CAMP. 3 ANISOMYS IN TRAPS, AND GOOD RUNS OF BOTH RATTUS + MELOMYS. BOYS BROUGHT IN A PYGMY POSSUM, POGONOMYS, 3 SANDY MELOMYS AND A REAL PRIZE - NYCTOPHILUS - A VERY LARGE-EARED BAT. THIS IS THE FIRST I HAVE SEEN IN NEW GUINEA; SHOT IT IN CAPE YORK. THIS IS A LARGER SPECIES. BELIEVE A NEW SPECIES HAS BEEN DESCRIBED IN LAURIE + HILL'S CHECK LIST - A SHAW MAYER SPECIMEN, NO DOUBT. NO JACKING TONIGHT FOR ME. MADE UP ANISOMYS, TOBIAM + 2 SMALL BOYS PERCHED ON MY BENCH UNTIL I FINISHED AT 11:30. CLOUDY; LITTLE SUN; RAIN AT 5; 22 WEDNESDAY 203-162 (132) MT. W., PENGAGL CR. QUIET DAY FOR A CHANGE! LIL'LIK SHOT A SILKY CUSCUS LAST NIGHT - VERY PROUD OF IT. WAK SNARED A RING-TAIL (CUPREUS). LIL'LIK HAD HIS 2ND ANTECHINUS. SEVERAL RATTUS, 1 MELOMYS + 1 POGONOMYS WITHOUT ITS HEAD. UNPINNED 2 BOARDS OF DRY SPECIMENS. WILL HAVE TO SHIFT SOME OF BOARDS TO LEN'S TENT FOR QUICKER DRYING. LIL'LIK + HETANA BROUGHT IN THEIR TRAPS + THIS AFTERNOON JOHN TOOK THEM OVER TO SECOND CREEK (1 BEYOND P.A.CR.). NO PIG SIGN, FALLEN LOGS, HEAVILY MOSSSED. SHOULD BE GOOD FOR THE LITTLE NEOHYDROMYS + PSEUDOHYDROMYS. ABOUT 30 MINUTES WALK FROM CAMP. ONLY 6 MORE DAYS OF TRAPPING. SMALL BOYS BROUGHT IN 2 MORE SYCONYCTERIS THIS P.M. AN ADULT PETAURUS FROM KENKU, ACROSS THE CHIMBU RIVER. LEN WENT DOWN CREEK TODAY. COLLECTED HIS 13TH CONIFER FOR MT.W. NEEDS GOOD SUNNY DAYS FOR SEEING INTO TREE TOPS, AND WE DO NOT HAVE MANY GOOD DAYS. TO BED EARLY AFTER 3 LATE NIGHTS.

31 Days JULY 1959 7th Month I FLASH PICTURE OF LEN + JOHN AT FIREPLACE, CLOUDY, LITTLE SUN. RAIN AT 4: P.M. 23 THURSDAY 204-161 (133) MT. W. PENGAGL CREEK RED LETTER DAY. HETANA HAD A PSEUDO HYDROMYS IN HIS TRAPS THIS SIDE OF #2 CREEK; AND LATER IN THE DAY A SMALL BOY BROUGHT IN ANOTHER - HE WAS PAID THE PROMISED 5/0 PRONTO! ONLY NEW SPECIES - A RED-RUMPED ANTECHINUS MELANURUS, OUR FIRST OF THE TRIP, MADE UP 16 SKINS - 12 DIFFERENT SPECIES. SMALL FRY BROUGHT IN A NUMBER OF GOOD MAMMALS, SKINKS AND FROGS. JOHN WAS A GREAT HELP IN CATALOGING + INJECTING HERPS. ABOUT 90 TRAPS CHANGED TO NEW LOCATIONS AT HIGHER ELEVATION IN MOSSY FOREST. MAYERMYS HAS NOT TURNED UP YET, AND WE NEED MORE NEOHYDRO- MYS. WE CROSSED THE RATTRAPS WITH WIRE IN ORDER TO HOLD SMALL RATS. CLEAR TONIGHT. TIM IS ONLY ONE OUT-JACKING. HAVE HEARD NO SHOTS. BED AT 11. PLEASANT DAY. USUAL RAIN LATERN. 24 FRIDAY 205-160 (134) MT. W. PENGAGL CREEK TONIGHT I HAVE COMPANY WHILE MAKING UP MY SKINS. TOBRAM, KUNO, TOMAS, HAVE BEEN AT MY SIDE EVER SINCE. 2 MAILS CAME IN TODAY: ONE FROM TOROMAMBENDO (NONE FOR ME); POLICEMAN CAME FROM KUNDIAWA (THIS TIME WITH LETTER FROM DORY - SENT JULY 11). BUSY DAY, BUT NOTHING NEW FOR COLLECTION. JOHN CAUGHT AN ANISOMYS IN STEEL TRAP ON LOG OVER WATER, GNAWED VINE + FELL INTO STREAM + DROWNED. SMALL BOYS BROUGHT IN 4 SYCONYCTERIS, 2 EUDROMICIA (ALIVE), ANTECHINUS + POOGONOMELOMYS FOR ME TO PREPARE FOR TOMORROW. NO ONE OUT JACKING TONIGHT. GOOD ASSORTMENT OF FROGS BROUGHT IN - NOW OVER 600 HERPS. BED AT 11. PLEASANT DAY. NO RAIN. STARS. 25 SATURDAY 206-159 (135) MT. W. PENGAGL CREEK THIS A.M. I FORGOT ABOUT WORK AND WENT THE ROUNDS OF ALL THE TRAP LINES WITH JOHN, TOBRAM, KUNO, LILIK. TOOK UPPER TRAIL TO PIUNDE - AUNDE WATER, THEN TO YUMBAGA CREEK, WHICH WE FOLLOWED UP FOR 1 MILE LOOKING AT STEEL TRAPS ON LOGS ACROSS WATER (1 ANISOMYS). TOOK MANY PICTURES. CLIMBED TO ABOUT 10,200'. HOME BY UPPER LOOP TRAIL. SMALL BOYS BROUGHT IN 2 NEOHYDROMYS + 1 PSEUDO HYDROMYS !! (AT 5/0). LOTS OF RATTUS RUBER + FROGS. JOHN HELPED ME CATALOG. WORKED LATE TONIGHT WITH TOBRAM AS COMPANY. MOSTLY CLOUDY. SHOWER P.M. 26 SUNDAY 207-158 (136) MT. OTTO - SAWMILL

7th Month JULY 1959 31 Days 27 MONDAY 208-157 (137) MT.W. PENGAGL CR. CLOUDY. FOG AT 6:P.M. RAIN 28 TUESDAY 209-156 (138) MT. WILHELM, PENGAGL CR. TOBRAM CAUGHT A PSEUDOHYDROMYS + RECD. HIS 5/6 ; THIS IS THE 2ND FROM OUR TRAP WINES NEAR UMBUGA CREEK. DEMKANA HAD A BANDICOOT, 4 HETANA AD ANTECHINUS; LIKLIK + OTHERS (TOMÁS + KUNO) THE USUAL RATTUS N. JOHN SHOT A RING-TAIL (BR.-HEAD) JUST DOWN THE CREEK FROM CAMP - THE 3RD FROM THIS AREA, LEN IS MAKING ONE LAST TRIP UPSTREAM TO TRY TO BAG HIS NUMBER 1000 FOR MT.W. MAMMALS + FROGS KEPT COMING IN ALL AFTERNOON. FINISHED MAKING UP AT 6:30. AFTER DINNER I WRAPPED SKINS UNTIL 10: GOOD MOTh NIGHT AT LAMP. NEW BREAD ! DUMPLINGS; COTTAGE PUDDING WITH RUM! EARLY A.M. THREATNING, FAIR. 29 WEDNESDAY 210-155 (139-149) MT. WILHELM, PENGAGL CR. JOHN HIKE D 20-25 MILES TODAY (10 HRS) TO KEGLSUGL + THEN TO BUNDI GAP. FOUND BEAUTIFUL STAND OF BEECH. FOUND A RING-TAIL IN A SNARE ; ALSO SOME MAMMAL BONES + TEETH AT A HUNTING CAMP. TWO MORE NEOHYDROMYS IN TODAY ! ALSO 2 NYCTOPHILUS, MADE UP 3 FLYING SQUIRRELS. WAK HAD AN ANTECHINUS; ALSO BOUGHT ONE. LEN WORKED NEAR KEGLSUGL, MAY BE CLOSE TO 1000. SOME TRAPS IN TODAY, REMAINDER TOMORROW. WRAPPED SPECIMENS TONIGHT - STILL 8 BOARDS TO CLEAR (WILL CARRY 3). PACKED SKINS IN CANS TONIGHT. TENDING PLANT LIGHT FOR LEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT. I HAD COMPANY MOST OF A.M.- FATHER OF WAK, TOBRAM + LITTLE KUNO, GAVE HIM AN EMPTY RUM BOTTLE + 2 STICKS OF TOBACCO - HE WAS PLEASED AS PUNCH ! QUITE AN OLD MAN. TOOK PICTURES OF HIM. SCRAPPED FLAT SKINS. DOG VISITED MY TENT LAST NIGHT. HAVE 5 STEELS SET, BED 12:15.

31 & 31 Days JULY & AUGUST 1959 7th & 8th Months FAIR - A LOVELY BLUE DAY 30 THURSDAY 241-154 MT. W., PENGAGL CREEK Our last day in camp + a busy one packing up, burned lamp in tent all day to clear pinning boards of specimens. Wrapped all skins + they just fill my 2 knockdown boxes. John + I wrapped herbs this p.m. - again, 2 full containers. Len reached the 1000 mark. 1010 for the mountain. I have over 800 mammals for Mt.W. Of course this includes a lot of R. Nigbe but 35 species are represented; and there are fine series of certain species (e.g., Antechinus, Pogonomelomys, Eudromicia, several Melomys and, best of all, Neo Hydromys + Pseudohydromys). A fine collection of herbs also, about 800 in all. Tobram is to be my #2 mammal boy. Hetana goes to Kim 31 FRIDAY 212-153 MT.W. PENGAGL CR. TO KEGLSUGL FINE DAY FOR FLYING. 1 August SATURDAY 213-152 KEGLSUGL TO GOROKA Rus Peterson! Lionel Evenet! Ken James met us at air- port. 2 SUNDAY 244-151 GOROKA Polo Crosse

8th Month AUGUST 1959 31 Days FAIR + WARM, HAZE ON THE MTs. 3 MONDAY 215-150 GOROKA TO GOVT. STORES AT 8: A.M. MR. PRIMROSE ON HAND, AS CHEERFUL AS EVER. REPACKED OUR GEAR FOR CAMP ON MT. OTTO. PACKED BLACK BOX 4 + WOOD CASE WITH SKULLS + SKELETONS + FLAT SKINS. 2 KNOCKDOWN BOXES ALSO READY TO GO. TED HENTY ARRIVED ON EARLY PLANE. HE TOOK THE SPECIMENS WITH HIM TO FORESTRY AT LAE ON M.A.L. 3: P.M. FLIGHT. RUS SKINNED OUT THE DOBSONIA WE SHOT NEAR IAN DOWNES' HOME IN THE ASARO RIVER VALLEY YESTERDAY. DINNER AT THE SEALE'S - HEATHER + BILL. A DE- LIGHTFUL EVENING. DESERT - STRAWBERRIES THAT BILL RAISED! SAW KEN'S MT. WILHELM SLIDES - POOR, MET NIXON + IAN ROBERTSON, TERRY BROWN. FAIR + WARM. 4 TUESDAY 216-149 GOROKA TO SAWMILL, MT. OTTO. PLANE FROM PT. MORESBY IN AT 9:30 A.M. WITH PHIL SPALDING, SON PHIL, + BILL HOSMER (AUSTRALIAN HERPETOLOGIST - COLLECTING FOR S.-P. EXP.). HAD A PLEASANT 1/2 HOUR + THEN RUS + LIONEL FLEW ON WITH OTHERS FOR A WEEK IN WESTERN HIGHLANDS. MIKE COLLINS WILL TAKE RUS TO MT. HAGEN CAVES. WILL VISIT FRED SHAW MAYER. WE LEFT FOR MT.O. IN LAND ROVER AFTER LUNCH, STOPPED TO VISIT JIM LEAHY AT HIS FARM HOT DAY. REACHED SAWMILL WITHOUT TROUBLE - 11 MILES FROM GOROKA, ROUGH BUT COMFORTABLE QUARTERS. FRED LEAHY (22) RUNNING MILL FOR [illegible] FAIR, BUT HEAVY CLOUDS, 5 WEDNESDAY 217-148 MT. OTTO, COLLINS SAWMILL GAVE TOBRAM HIS FIRST SKINNING LESSON - YOUNG RING-TAIL THAT WE BOUGHT YESTERDAY. MY "LAB" IS THE FRONT OF THE LIVING ROOM AT THE COLLINS' HOUSE - VERY LIGHT AND CONVENIENT. 160 HAGENS + CHIMBUS WORKING AT MILL; MANY SKINKS + A FEW FROGS CAME IN TODAY. JOHN + I LIKLIK + TOBRAM SET 14 STEELS ALONG BIG CREEK; ALSO 40 MUS. SPEC. A BEAUTIFUL STREAM - BEFORE LOGGING; HUGE BOULDERS IN BED, DEEP POOLS. COLLINS HAVE PLANTED RAINBOW TROUT; TOE HAS CAUGHT A 4 POUNDER. JOHN + I WALKED UP CREEK TO START OF THE WATER RACE (1 MILE LONG) WHICH POWERS THE SAWS + ELECTRIC GENERATOR. THE COUNTRY IS STEEP, RUGGED + COVERED WITH BEAUTIFUL FOREST. NATIVE BROUGHT ME A MARSUPIAL RAT - PHASCOLOSOREX (2/otistich) ALSO BOUGHT AN ADULT & RING-TAIL (CUPREUS). SAW BATS. SHOT 0.

31 Days AUGUST 1959 8th Month Choudy, little sun, Rain at NIGHT. 147-101 Mt. Otto, Sawmill 6 THURSDAY 248-147 5 Rattus n., 3 Melomys, 1 Parahydromys. Bought a good specimen of Anisomys; also Rattus ruber. Tobram doing well at skinning - slow but careful. Lik Lik ill today. Spelled him at 3 p.m. Hetana took over + skinned. Another snake and several batches of frogs for tobacco - now over the 1000 mark! Some very good species of frogs. Bought a Pseudocheirus cupreus just before dinner (5/6). Ed Colling brought bread from Goroka. John gave me a haircut. We see bats each evening but have shot none yet. Good frog chorus tonight. We are sleeping warm + my bed is very comfortable. Creamed tripe - dinner. Fair + Pleasant, Night clear. 7 FRIDAY 249-146 Mt. Otto, Sawmill. Another Parahydromys, our first Antechinus melanurus for Otto, + 1 Rattus n. The usual before dinner "market" brought in our first native cat of the trip, + our first "Kermani" (bandicoot) for Otto. Also shot a Pipistrelle near the mill. This p.m. John, Tobram + I walked up stream to junction of creeks + on up for 1/4 mile to large Boulder cave (perhaps 75' in all). Great heaps of bat dung but not a bat to be found. The local Kotunis had visited the cave recently and had cleaned up - a great disappointment. Collected a few cave insects. Beautiful boulder stream. Electricity on @ house. Bats chasing insects in front of porch light. Will rig up shades for shooting. John + Tobram out tracking, 149-99 Cloudy. Torrential rain in p.m. 8 SATURDAY 220-145 Mt. Otto - Sawmill. Another flood of frogs today - a fine variety of species. We will have to call a halt soon! We are up to #1374. Only a Melomys + Rattus in traps. Bought an Exulans + 2 young; tonight a Hydromys - skull battered in, unfortunately - took blood sample. Shot a Pipistrelle; collected 2 large ectos. John + Fred off to Goroka for the weekend. Valve on water main broke - no electric lights tonight. Len + I are used to the Coleman + like it. Stars out. No jacking. Mostly cloudy, Shower p.m. 9 SUNDAY 221-144 Mt. Otto - Sawmill. New traplines a disappointment - only Rattus + Melomys. John + Fred returned p.m. + Fixed Generator. Tried to shoot bat by front light - no luck. Tobram + I walked almost to race for dust batting - no luck. Hagens brought in Anisomys. Cataloged 36 frogs. Rod told John about 2 more caves up + across creek. Len has asked John to climb Otto with flower-flower boys to collect.

8th Month AUGUST 1959 31 Days DULL, SOME SUN A.M. RAIN IN P.M. 10 MONDAY 222-443 MT. OTTO - SAWMILL ANOTHER PARAHYDROMYS + USUAL RATTUS + MELOMYS. TOBRAM ALMOST TRAP PED A GIANT RAT - SPECIES? THE RAT LEFT A FRONT FOOT IN A STEEL ON A LOG ACROSS THE CREEK. LARGER THAN ANISOMYS - IT MAY BE MALLOMYS OR HYOMYS. IT HAS 2 PECULIAR GROOVED NAILS. BOUGHT 3 PETAURUS THIS AFTERNOON. FINALLY SHOT THE LARGE MINIOPTERUS THAT FLIES PAST OUR PORCH LIGHT AT NIGHT. BRINGS OUR TOTAL TO 20 SPECIES FOR FIRST WEEK. JOHN, TOBRAM, EDEWAWA, + SAUNI CLIMBED MT. OTTO, COLLECTING ON WAY UP, TOP AT 3:P.M. RAINING. HOME AT 6:P.M. SOME GRASS ON TOP. WROTE JOE MOORE TODAY. GOOD-MOTH NIGHT. EVERYONE CHASING THEM WITH BOTTLES. OUR FIRST BEAUTIFUL SUNNY DAY. 11 TUESDAY 223-142 MT. OTTO - SAWMILL TOOK PICTURES OF HILLS FROM ROOF; SAWMILL; MARBLE PLAYING; SUNSET. ONLY MELOMYS + RATTUS IN TRAPS. BOUGHT A LOVELY GOLDEN-GREEN RING-TAIL POSSUM; ALSO OUR FIRST SYCONYCTERIS. SENT TOBRAM + LIK LIK HUNTING FOR BATS + POGONOMYS - FOUND NOTHING. FRED LEAHY SHOT A PIP TONIGHT. KIM JACKING - NOTHING. JOHN + I DROVE S.E. PAST SITE OF OLD MILL + THEN WALKED LOGGING ROADS FOR 2 HOURS. SAW NOTHING. LOVELY NIGHT-MOON FIRST QUARTER. CHILL WIND BLOWING UP ON SPUR. MUST HAVE CLIMBED TO WELL OVER 8000 FT. 4 NATIVES FROM MILL FOLLOWED TRUCK + WALKED WITH US. WROTE HUNTOONS, KATHERINE. SENT LETTERS TO GOROKA WITH LOGGING TRUCK. ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY. 12 WEDNESDAY 224-144 MT. OTTO - SAWMILL JOHN DECIDED TO CLIMB MT. OTTO AGAIN TODAY, ESPECIALLY TO COLLECT FOR HEN AT + NEAR THE SUMMIT. EDEWAWA + SAUNI WITH HIM. TOBRAM WILL LOOK AROUND INTERMEDIATE LEVELS FOR TREE-CLIMBERS. LEFT AT 8:A.M. SUMMIT CLEAR OF CLOUD. PAT LEAHY, FRED'S YOUNGER BROTHER (MY TENNIS PARTNER), DROVE UP TO MILL FOR FIREWOOD. HE WORKS AT TIM LEAHY'S FARM OUTSIDE OF GOROKA. TOBRAM RETURNED WITHOUT HAVING SEEN ANYTHING. JOHN RE- TURNED LATE IN DAY, HAVING COLLECTED AROUND THE SUMMIT FOR THREE HOURS. CAME BACK WITH A GOOD BAG. MY BIG EXCITEMENT OF THE DAY CAME WHEN THE YOUNG CHIMBU WHO TAKES CARE OF THE PIGS CAME UP WITH A SMALL BAT WHICH HE FOUND IN A CREVICE BETWEEN THE WOODEN CEILING + TIN ROOF OF THE BOY HOUSE. IT HAS THE TRI COLOR FUR OF PHONISCUS BUT NOT THE GOLDEN HAIRS. NOSTRILS OPEN LATERALLY FROM LITTLE TUBES ON NOSE; WING MEMBRANES PALE BROWN. THIS COULD BE MURINA - NOT KNOWN FROM NEW GUINEA. TOOK OUT SKULL AND PRESERVED SKIN + BODY IN FORMALIN. JOHN BROUGHT ME A HYOMYS SKELETON.

31 Days AUGUST 1959 8th Month LETTERS FROM IAN DOWNS (DATA ON CAVES); HORRIE CLISSOLD - COLLECTING SPECIMENS FAIR. 154-94 13 THURSDAY 225-140 MT. OTTO, SAWMILL ONLY RATTUS N. + MELOMYS IN TRAPS. MILTE, JOHN'S YOUNGER BROTHER, ARRIVED AT MILL. HE HAD DRIVEN RUS PETERSON + LIONEL TO MT. HAGEN TO VISIT BAT CAVES. REPORTED THAT HE + LIONEL HAD A TOUGH 3 HOUR WALK; RUS HAD A "PAIN" + DID NOT GO. FOUND DOBSONIA AND A FEW SMALL BATS (COULD NOT TELL ME ANYTHING ABOUT THESE). PHIL SPALDING ACTING THE BIG-SHOT, PASSING OUT TOO MUCH MONEY FOR SPECIMENS. LILT LILT + I TOOK KAI WITH US + LEFT MILL AT 4:45 P.M. LEN'S 2 CUT TREES AT 5:30 (2500 M.) WE WALKED UNTIL 6: P.M. (2700-2800 M.) SHOT 2 PSEUDOCHIRUS FORD. HERE AT 6:45, LOWER ON TRAIL SHOT 2 PSEUDOCHIRUS CUPREUS (EACH I P.Y.4.) - 7:15 P.M. BEAUTIFUL CONIFER FOR. FAIR BUT HAZY. P.M. CLOUDING IN. 14 FRIDAY 226-139 MT. OTTO - SAWMILL LILT LILT (IN A NEW LARGE STEEL SET ON LOG ACROSS STREAM) BROUGHT IN OUR FIRST UROMYS ANAT OF THE TRIP - A NICE SPECIMEN FULL OF FLEAS! ALSO BOUGHT A YOUNG PHASCOLOSCREX + A SMALL RING-TAIL, PARAHYDROMYS, MELOMYS + R.N. IN TRAPS. THESE TOGETHER WITH LAST NIGHT'S RING-TAILS GAVE US A VERY BUSY DAY. THE CHIMBUS, AS USUAL, ARRIVED JUST AT BREAKFAST TIME WITH THEIR CATCHES OF FROGS. WE HAVE A WONDERFUL COLLECTION FROM OTTO! AND ALL IT COSTS IS A BIT OF TOBACCO + PAPER. LETTER FROM YT. (JULY 31) - RE- CEIVED THE 16 ROLLS OF FILM FROM MT. WILHELM. ALSO LETTER FROM MRS. KOENIG (AUG.5) WITH TYPE DESCRIPTIONS. CLOUDED IN TONIGHT - WONDERFUL MOTH NIGHT. IN THE CLOUDS. DRIZZLING. 15 SATURDAY 227-138 MT. OTTO, COLLINS' SAWMILL ONLY A PERORYCTES L.O. IN SMALL STEEL TRAP THIS MORNING. HOWEVER, I BOUGHT A PHASCOLOSCREX, ANTECHINUS W. + RATTUS EX. LAST NIGHT: FRED + JOHN HAVE BOTH GONE INTO GOROKA. LEN DROPPED OFF DOWN THE ROAD AT A PATCH OF OAK FOREST. JOHN INJECTED + CATALOGUED FROGS BEFORE HE LEFT - A BIG HELP. A KOTUNI BROUGHT IN A SILKY CUSCUS - OUR FIRST FOR OTTO. EUdROMICIA BOUGHT. RAIN + MIST. EXCELLENT MOTH NIGHT. FINALLY UPTODATE ON SKINS. LOW CLOUD. RAIN. SUN TRYING TO 16 SUNDAY 228-137 MT. OTTO - SAWMILL OUR 27TH SPECIES FOR OTTO - TOBRAM HAD A LARGE FAWN MELOMYS; LILT LIL A RATTUS, ALL TRAPS IN. NEW LINES THIS P.M. LEFT LIGHTS ON ALL NIGHT; LEN + I COL- LECTED WHENEVER WE WOKE UP - A BEAUTIFUL MOTH CATCH, POGOCEMYS + POGON MELOMYS BROUGHT IN - BOTH NEW; ALSO A SYCONYCTERIS, ANTECHINUS + 3 EUdRO- MICIA: RAIN + SUN ALL P.M. 1 SMALL SNAKE TODAY - ALSO A FEW FROGS. A FEW VISITORS UP FISHING FOR TROUT. ANOTHER MISTY MOTH NIGHT.

8th Month AUGUST 1959 31 Days 158-90 17 MONDAY 229-136 MT. OTTO - SAWMILL. Mixed cloud + sun. Rain later P.M. 18 TUESDAY 230-135 MT. OTTO - SAWMILL Poor trap night - 1 EXULANS 2 NIOBE. TOBRAM + I VISITED THE BAT CAVE UNDER THE HUGE BOULDER UPSTREAM; THIS TIME WE FOUND 6 BATS THAT HAD MOVED IN, OR ESCAPED THE KOTUNIS PREVIOUS RAID. A SLIPPERY TRIP OVER THE MOSSY BOULDERS. 160-88 19 WEDNESDAY 231-134 MT. OTTO - SAWMILL IN CLOUDS, AS USUAL. IAN FRASER CAME UP FOR A VISIT. STAYED THE NIGHT. HAS A COFFEE PLANTATION NEAR DANNY LEAHY, BUT NEAR MAIN ROAD TO LAe.

31 Days AUGUST 1959 8th Month FAIR, A FEW CLOUDS ON PEAKS. 20 THURSDAY 161-87 MT. OTTO TO GOROKA INJECTED LAST BATCH OF FROGS - 959 FOR OTTO ! 3 SNAKES, 28 LIZARDS, MAMMALS - 129 - 29 SPECIES. FINISHED PACKING AND LOADED ROVER. TO GOROKA BEFORE LUNCH ; UNLOADED AT GOVERNMENT STORES. RUS WEBSTER AT LUNCH WITH US - BACK FROM LEAVE. KEN JAMES LEAVES TOMORROW FOR AUSTRALIA. WORKED ON COLLECTING GEAR DURING P.M. FILLED STORAGE VAT WITH SPECIMENS. ORDERED FOOD AT BUNTINGS FOR MY TRIP TO BENABENA TOMORROW. WROTE ITAY, DICK VANGELDER, WHO'S WHO. JOHN STAYING AT DANNY LEAHY'S PLACE TONIGHT. TOOK TOBRAM 4 TRAPS WITH HIM. MAY HAVE SOME SPECIMENS TOMORROW. DINNER WITH KEN + RUS. DUST. 162-86 FAIR + MILD. COOL WIND BEFORE 21 FRIDAY 233-132 GOROKA TO BENABENA PACKED ROVER + DROVE THE 12 MILES TO DANNY'S PLANTATION. DANNY AWAY SO I HAD PLACE TO MYSELF - 4 BOYS WITH ME. TOBRAM HAD A FEW RATTUS EXULANS + 1 R. RUBER. MADE UP 6 SPECIMENS. FIG TREES IN FRONT YARD. WE SET 4 NETS. TRAPS ALONG BENABENA RIVER - A SHALLOW FAST-RUNNING STREAM OVER A WIDE BED OF SMALL STONES + SAND, LOW CLIFFS ON SOUTH SIDE. SAW ONLY 1 SMALL BAT AT DUSK. JACKING THRU PLANTATION TO ANOTHER GROVE OF FIGS. SAW A BOBSONIA + SYCONYCTERIS. SHOT A R. EXULANS OUT OF A FLEAS. HOME TO FIND A ROUSETTUS IN NET ! MOST UNEXPECTED. NIGHT COOL - AS LOW AS 62°F. FAIR + DRY, HEAVY CUMULUS. 22 SATURDAY 163-95-14 BENABENA TO GOROKA UP SEVERAL TIMES DURING NIGHT TO CHECK NETS. NOTHING ELSE CAME IN. 1 R. RUBER + THE USUAL LOT OF EXULANS IN TRAPS - MADE UP ANOTHER 6 SPECIMENS. A WARM DAY JUST AS BOYS WENT DOWN TO RIVER AT 1:30 LEN + JOHN ARRIVED. AFTER EATING WE PACKED + LEFT FOR GOROKA. AS WE PASSED A GRASS FIRE LEN SAW NATIVE WITH A BANDICOOT. STOPPED + I BOUGHT THE HEAD - AN ECCHYMIPERA SAME AS AT OOMSIS, GURAHOR + BULULO. UNPINNED SKINS. DINNER WITH RUS WEBSTER. FAIR BUT HIGH HEAVY CLOUD 23 SUNDAY 164-84-14 GOROKA WRAPPED SPECIMENS WHICH I DRIED AT BENABENA. A LAZY MORNING. RUS WEBSTER INVITED SISTER BEDELIA MULCAHY, WHOM WE KNEW IN SAMARAI, FOR LUNCH. TALKED UNTIL 4: P.M. WROTE MIMI + HOBY, MOLLY SPILLER, RALPH BERG + JOHN WOMERSLEY. JOHN MAY COME TO GOND. ASKED HIM TO BRING STEEL TRAPS. SUPPER WITH RUS. HUNTED FROGS. TO BED EARLY.

8th Month AUG.9 AUGUST 1959 31 Days LETTERS: TAY, Mrs. M. LEAHY, MAISIE SPILLER, 165-83 FAIR, HIGH, HEAVY CUMULUS 24 MONDAY 226-129 GOROKA TO GONO, MT.M. To Buntings to pick up stores + to warehouse to pack Rover + trailer. Off at 9:40. Stopped at Ian Fraser's coffee estate for tea. East thru the valley angling to the south, then west along north slopes of Mt. Michael. Stopped at Lufa patrol post. William McSeveny, wife + mother gave us tea. He is the E.M.O. Onto Gona on west slopes of Mt. Michael. Beautiful forest - in cloud on divide. Staying at rest house. Bat shooting: 1 Pipistrelle + 1 Dobsonia (which we could not find); Tobram + Liklik set is M. S.P. TILILA FAITH Each. Visit from Ben WERTZ + young daughter Ruth (+ dog Toby) mission. 166-82 GONO c. 6400 Ft.- IN CLOUD ALL DAY, RAIN. 25 TUESDAY 237-128 4 Rattus exulans in traps. Tents up today. Two "7-days here for a few hours: 1 a Dr. Len Barnett; 1 a movie photographer Eric Weir. Off on a medical patrol S.W. of Mt. Michael. Tom Gilliard stayed with Dr.- He founded leper colony in Highlands. Ruth brought a boy up with 5 frogs + 1 lizard (0/6). Man brought in a black snake (1/0). John + I shot bats at Twin Brooks - 1 Pipistrelle, Good Dobsonia flight. No luck shooting. 14 steels, 12 rats set along brook, 30 M. S.P. lifted + put in forest above Brooks. Gono ridge oriented N-S. Rest house hooks off to west. LATE IN DAY + AFTER DARK 167-81 GONO, MT. MICHAEL PARTLY FAIR, SOME SUN, CLOUD + RAIN 26 WEDNESDAY 238-127 INTERESTING ANTECHINUS (?) in forest trap. Larger than A. wilh. + not A. melanurus. A Pogonomys in a steel on log over stream; also a Melo mys + 4 Rattus exulans. At least a dozen R.I.X. offered today; took one with yellowish belly. Frogs + lizards came in slowly. Ruth told John about cave on Gono Ridge; sent boy with him to find it. No luck - boy would not or could not find it. Ruth brought in 2 very large stick insects found on casurinas near her home. tied Bought a small (40-50 lb.) pig today - alive, squealing, on a pole - for 8 gold-lip shells (about £2-). Kim cooked some ribs for us + will save a leg; the rest went to our boys who are very happy about it. THICK CLOUD (WET) - Good moth night. Lamp hanging in garden house. Caught gecko on garden post. 2 other small ones brought in today. New trap lines out tonight on top of small hill on ridge (30 Mls, 12 M.A.T.)

31 Days AUGUST 1959 8th Month Cloud off + on all day. 27 THURSDAY 168-80 MT. MICHAEL ; GONO Only 2 mammals in traps. Pigs in boys' traplines. THIS IS A NEW RAT FOR ME - BIG EARS, LONG HIND FEET, MARKED WHITETAIL TIP, RATTUS TAIL. CAN NOT PLACE IT. IN P.M. JOHN + I WALKED OUT TO FAR END OF GONO PIDGE, Beautiful views - Wahgi River & Asaro River join to form the Tua Just below. Precipitous drop on one side (N) of trail. Found no caves but collected a few plants. Small circular houses along lower ridge crest, Pigs live in some. Took a number of pictures. Boys pointed out 3 pigeons in a tree - all 3 with I shot - small boys found them all. To Wertz Home cream pie. FAIR - until 4 P.M. Heavy rain 6-7. 28 FRIDAY 169-79 MT. MICHAEL - GONO. HOME 11:00 Our first really nice day here - only Mt. M. covered. JOHN BROUGHT HOMER DOB & SONIA + Pipistrellus from Twin Creeks last night. Two more white-tailed rats, I Lorentzimys + First Rattus niche. Herps went over 2000 today, John cataloging. Another hot in this afternoon. Ruth encourages the Youngsters to collect frogs. Ben Wertz went to Lufa in A.M. to bring out Bill + Mrs. McSeweny + her mother - staying for dinner. Saved the Head, Feet + a wing of one pigeon. Tonight we had pigeon soup + fried Pigeon - very good. Packed gear - ready to leave early tomorrow. Boy Brought a baby ring-tail in this P.M. (10 species for camp). John W. arr. Sept. 2 170-78 FAIR (for Gono), Fair on N.E. 29 SATURDAY 241-241 GONO to Camp E. of Lufa Up early to load Rover. Off at 8:15, Road fairly good, but John had the motor all out a few times. Did not break any Bridges. Good view of the rugged sky-line of Mt. Wilhelm. Dry road on North slopes. Spent all P.M. rigging 2 flys + 2 tents. Camp site is near a brook + 1º forest - also near a logging area. Will be good to work under a fly again. John shot a pip at dusk. Boys + I have a token 25 traps out. This is pig country, too, but not as bad as Gono. Looks like a good camp. FAIR - on N.E. slope at least. 30 SUNDAY 171-77 CAMP IN BEECH FOREST Boys built a fine worktable under fly. Split Pandanus boots make excellent surface. 2 Melomys + 2 Rattus + Pip John shot last night - also made up the beautiful little ring-tail from Gono. One Tul-tul (Lundoy) and crowds of curious visited us. Some helped put in small house, bath-house + cook shed. Lik Lik + I jacked for 2 hours up logging trail - saw nothing. A Faith Mission men + children visited us. Harold Sellers + Cleon Laughlin,

8th & 9th Months AUG. & SEPT. 1959 31 & 30 Days (5-6) Sun+cloud, Rain early A.M. + late P.M. 31 MONDAY 243-122 Beech forest camp (Mt. M.) John, Tobram, Edewawa, Sauni off at daybreak to climb Mt. Michael. Drove to Lufa to pick up track. Tobram trapped a bandicoot + 3 Rattus came in. Also made up the ring-tail I bought yesterday. This has been a day of confusion in camp. Visiting Lulualis, their Marys, and crowds of Monday "road-workers" out sightseeing. They over-ran the camp until we chased them all out — but they didn't move far. Tomorrow we build fences. We had 1 bar today — but of little use. John down Mt. at 6:45. Camp at 5:15 Brought back a big collection. Mt. in cloud most of day. Elev. 12,135 ft. Tackedon Road — nothing. A lovely day. 1 September TUESDAY 244-121 P.O. from Lufa brought some mail to us: Kay, Jim Oliver, + Mimi. Jock Hiked just back from patrol + on way to Goroka. Few natives around today. Lun Day, My favorite Tul-Tul gave me local mammal names. Hetana had a white-tailed Pogonomyx, caught in steel trap. Kim Jacked a ring-tail last night, + tonight he shot a more. Tobram + I were in uncut forest up the road — collected 1 Phalanger vestitus. T. is a gem as a jackling companion. Wrote Kay + John took letter in to Goroka. He will meet John Womersley's plane tomorrow. Mr. Laughlin + son stopped on way out. Jock told us that Len Barnard — the 7- day went on patrol to stop natives from importing pigs from Chimbo; they will introduce goats! Did not know that 7-days ate any meat! Fair — S-E wind. Cool P.M. 2 WEDNESDAY 245-120 Mt. Michael — Beech Forest. John arrived from Goroka with John Womersley about mid-morning as Len & I were having tea. J.W. came up from Lae on an M.A.L. charter flight with his collecting gear + his boy, Nema. Our camp now consists of 3 tents, 3 flys, 1 cook shed + 2 "small houses". Paul + Norman Sellers, from the Faith Mission at Lufa, arrived early on their motor scooter with a Eudromicia that a cat brought in + deposited under Barbara's bed — new for Mt. Michael. Tobram had a bandicoot, + 2 species of Rattus completed the catch. Small boys brought in a few frogs. John brought the heap catalog up to date. Len is still cataloging John C's Mt. Michael collection — over 100 numbers. John W. out collecting up the logging road. Len has hardly had a chance to collect yet. John brought mail: Betty Horner, Louis Huntoon + 3 bank (Dusty Millers out board motor has been paid for $574.). Chicken dinner. No Jacking

30 Days SEPTEMBER 1959 9th Month MOSTLY FAIR. LIGHT RAIN AFTER DARK. THURSDAY 246-119 LEN FINISHED THE MOUNTAIN PLANTS. JOHN + BOYS COLLECTED ABOUT 120 NOS. IN ONE DAY! SELLERS STOPPED ON WAY TO GOROKA. PAUL FOUND A WALLABY MANDIBLE IN LUFU. I BANDICOOT WITH POUCH YOUNG IN TRAPS; ALSO I R. RUDER CAUGHT UP ON MY WORK. JOHN, LILIKIT, TODRAM + I SET OUR LARGEST NET IN THE GULLEY WHERE I HAD SEEN NYCTIMENE (?) FLYING TUES. NIGHT. L.L. ALSO SET A NEW TRAPLINE HERE IN THE BEECH FOREST. JOHN + I TRIED FOR BATS ALONG ROAD BY LIGHT OF ROVER. NONE CAME IN REGULARLY. SAW 1 DOB- SONIA GO OVER — 1ST ON THIS SLOPE OF MT. M. TIM + LIL LIL HACHED A POGO NOMYS + YOUNG PSEUDOCHIROS. MANY FROGS CAME IN TODAY, ALSO A SMALL SNAKE FOUND IN PIT-PIT (WILD SUGAR CANE). JOHN W. FINDS COLLECTING SLOW. GRAY DAY — RAIN OFF + ON. 4 FRIDAY 247-118 MT. MICHAEL 3 MELONY, 2 R. NIOBE IN TRAPS; NOTHING IN STEELS TODAY. JOHN C. TOOK JOHN W. UP ROAD TO LOOK AT PINES, AND THEN CONTINUED ON TO LUFU TO ARRANGE FOR CARRIERS FOR OUR CLIMB OF MT. M. TOMORROW. CLOUD + DRIZZLE 5 SATURDAY 248-117 MT. MICHAEL CLIMBED FROM ROAD ABOVE LUFU P.O. POST (7000FT) TO CAMP ON MT. MICHAEL RIDGE. 10,200 FT. PITCHED CAMP IN RAIN. JOHN C. MADE A WONDERFUL STEW. IN P.M. I WALKED UP TRAIL (40 MIN.) TO EDGE OF KUNI (GRASS) I CLIMBED THE FIRST KUNI PEAK (11,400 FT.) SAW A DUCK HAWK! A LOT OF CLOUD FROM SOUTH + RAIN. TOOK 1 CR2 PICTURES. SMALL BOYS COLLECTED 13 FROGS IN CAMP CLEARING. GOOD TEA + STEW FOR SUPPER. SET 50 ODD M. SP. + 10 STEELS. FAIR. LIGHT CLOUDS ON RIDGE 6 SUNDAY 249-116 MT. MICHAEL FROM RIDGECAMP TO SUMMIT OF MT. M. 10: A.M. LEFT CAMP AT 7:05 FAIR! CLOUDS DRIFTING IN 13Y TIME JOHN W. + I REACHED "MARKER PEAK". TOOK MANY PICTURES ON SUMMIT (12000 — 12160 FT.) LEFT NOTE IN BOTTLE. EVERYONE COLLECTED PLANTS. BEAUTIFUL VIEWS FROM 1ST KNOB + ON WAY DOWN. GONE RIDGE CLEAR. SAW GOROKA. STOPPED AT BILL MCS. ONLY 2 MELOMYS + R. NIOBE IN TRAPS. 1 RINGTAIL SKULL

9th Month SEPTEMBER 1959 30 Days FAIR A.M., CLOUDY P.M. SHOWERS 7 MONDAY 250-115 MT. MICHAEL - BEECH CAMP ONLY 2 R. NIIGE IN OUR REDUCED TRAP LINES. WHILE WE WERE AWAY LIR LIR TOOK 4 SYCONYCTERIS FROM OUR BIG NET + ALSO SKINNED 3 RATTUS + 1 MELOMYS. ALL TIRED TODAY BUT WE WORKED THRU ALL OUR SPECIMENS, JOHN W., JOHN C., AND I WALKED UP ROAD FOR PHOTOS OF MT. M. + THEN DROVE DOWN THE ROAD FOR ANOTHER ASPECT. ROCK PEAK DOES NOT AMOUNT TO MUCH FROM BELOW. JACK RITTEN (P.O. LUF A) STOPPED FOR TEA. PETER ROBINSON (VET-GOVT. GOROKA) STOPPED ON WAY TO BEN WERTZ'S. JOHN, LIR LIR, + TOBRAM SET 24 STEEL TRAPS ALONG BIG MT. BROCK NEAR CLEAN LAUGHLIN'S HOME. NO JACKING TONIGHT. LETTER FROM GRACE MCLANE; ROBERT MARRIED. JOHN'S 4 RHODODEBRON BUDS STARTED TO OPEN TODAY. VERY FRAGRANT - CARNATION SMELL. BOUGHT BAMBOO PIPE ('MAMBO'). 180-68 8 TUESDAY MT. MICHAEL THIS IS THE DAY I BECAME A GRANDFATHER! (AS I LEARNED ON THE 11TH). A DAUGHTER, HEATHER - 8 LBS. 2 OZ. ALL WELL! TOBRAM HAD A HYDROMYS IN FIRST TRAP BELOW BRIDGE - OUR 2ND RECORD FOR THE HIGHLANDS - SHAW MAYER HAD NONE. ALSO A FINE SANDY MELOMYS - SAME AS WAS BROUGHT TO US ON MT. WILHELM FROM BELOW. SMALL BOYS BRINGING IN FROGS ALL DAY LONG 181-67 9 WEDNESDAY 252-113 MT. MICHAEL JOHN WOMERSLEY LEFT FOR GOROKA EARLY THIS A.M. WITH JOHN. IN P.M. JOHN ARRIVED BACK AT CAMP WITH A DR. MORRIS RAPSON (+ SON PHILIP -13) FROM PT. MORESBY - HEAD OF FISHERIES SECTION OF DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE, STOCK + FISHERIES. HAD JUST COME FROM 4 DAYS ON MT. WILHELM. MEASURED DEPTHS OF 2 LAKES (P- 27 FATHOMS, A.-12 F.) TEMPERATURE OF WATER 53°-57°F. DID NOT CLIMB MOUNTAIN. TONIGHT ONE OF BEST MAMMALS OF TRIP CAME IN - OTOMOPS. FOR SEVERAL NIGHTS JOHN + I HAVE BEEN WATCHING A HIGH-FLYING (100+ FT.), STRAIGHT-FLYING BAT THAT COMES OUT OF THE FOREST JUST OPPOSITE CAMP. JOHN PICKED HIM OFF WITH HIS FIRST SHOT. I SUSPECTED OUR BAT WAS A FREE-THIL BUT NEVER EXPECTED OTOMOPS! 5TH KNOWN SPECIMEN OF O. SECUNDUS

30 Days SEPTEMBER 1959 9th Month 10 THURSDAY 253-112 MT. MICHAEL WE TOOK DR. RAPSON DOWN TO HAGAVE CREEK IN A.M., SPENT THE MORNING COLLECTING WATER INVERTEBRATES. HE BOUGHT A SICK- LOOKING SICKLE-BILL BIRD OF PARADISE FROM A NATIVE FOR 2/6. HE DECIDED NOT TO TAKE IT TO PT. MORESBY + LEFT IT IN MY CARE, JOHN DROVE THEM TO GOROITA IN P.M. THEY TRIED TO NET FISH IN THE KAMI RIVER - NEGATIVE. JOHN SPENT THE NIGHT. HAD I SHOT AT AN OTOMOPS - NO LUCK. LONG LETTER FROM RUS PETERSON. WONDERFUL LUCK AT NONDUGL. FAIR + QUITE WARM 11 FRIDAY 254-111 MT. MICHAEL THIS IS THE DAY I LEARNED THAT I HAD BECOME A GRANDFATHER! SMALL BOY CAME DOWN FROM LUF A WITH A MESSAGE IN A SPLIT STICK. COPY OF CABLE FROM HOBY. RADIO FROM BOTANY STAFF IN LAE. NOTE FROM NELL + BILL McSEVENY, E.M.O. AT LUF A. I AM SO RELIEVED THAT MIMI + THE BABY ARE BOTH O.K. I LIKE THE NAME HEATHER. D.C.'S WIFE (HEATHER SEALE) IN GOROITA. P.M. 12 SATURDAY 255-110 MT. MICHAEL, BEECH CAMP ANOTHER GOOD NIGHT FOR MY BAT NET - 4 SYCONYCTERIS. 6 RATTUS NIobe FROM 40 M.SP. ON THE RIDGE ABOVE CAMP. 290 FROGS TODAY - MOSTLY SMALL ONES! CLOSED OUR BOOKS ON THEM. LEN + JOHN AT SAWMILL IN A.M. JOHN SHOT A LARGE PIGEON! EARLY A.M. - KEPT HEAD FOR RECORD (DRY IT IN OVEN). JOHN + I UP BEFORE 6: TO TRY FOR ANOTHER OTOMOPS. SAW SEVERAL BETWEEN 6: + 6:10 BUT VERY HIGH. SHOTS MADE THEM SWERVE BUT NO VICTIMS. FLYING SLOWER THAN AT DUSK + CIRCLING. BOUGHT MORE PEANUTS FROM LON DON - THE TUL-TUL. DRIZZLE RUINED OTOMOPS FLIGHT TO NIGHT. NELL McSEVENY BROUGHT MAIL. LETTER-T.MARCHANT NO JACKING CLOUDY. LITTLE SUN. 13 SUNDAY 256-109 MT. MICHAEL, BEECH CAMP 6 MONTHS FROM HOME TODAY. UP AT 6: HAD A FEW HOPEFUL SHOTS AT OTOMOPS BUT NO LUCK. HOWEVER, TONIGHT JOHN + I ZEROED IN ON ONE BUT IT FELL IN TANGLED BRUSH + WE HAVE NOT FOUND IT YET. 3 FLEW FAIRLY LOW (80F) ONLY 1 MELOMYS IN TRAPS. 1 SYCONYCTERIS IN NET. KIM STEPPED ON AN 1 M. RATTUS. SMALL BOYS BROUGHT IN 1 POLOGNOMELOMYS + A LOVELY LARGE (HAIREO) POUCH YOUNG OF PSEUDOCEIRUS CORINNAE. TRAPS IN. DRIZZLING AT 9:P.M.

9th Month SEPTEMBER 1959 30 Days Russ had Mr. + Mrs. Pollard of LAE as house guests: Fair. Heavy cumulus 14 MONDAY 257-108 Up early to shoot - saw no bats. After breakfast I offered the small boys 5 sticks of Tobacco to find our Otomops. They took the area apart - but no luck. It really hurts to lose a rare specimen like that! Broke camp in late A.M., lunched & left at 12'55. Road excellent. Collected an orchid in grass- land. Just 40 miles to Goroka. Crossed Kami River on a shakey suspension bridge that rippled. Mt. Michael in clouds; Len + I staying at Bunting's Guest House. Wrote H.+Mimi, + Alice + Louis, Big Golf weekend here - today a holiday (?). Russ Webster at club, so could not have dinner with us. 15 TUESDAY 258-107 Dinner at home of Inspector Frank Hoeter (O.I.C. Police) Born American (Pago-Pago - Samoa). Good naturalist. Shell collector. 12 years in T.N.G. Has a comfortable home on hill, spent a most pleasant evening. Will leave large rat trap with him (Hava-heart live trap). Promised us some fried beetles. Swarmed last week + a few out now - usually about 4:30 to dusk. Native women stash them in their hair! Adults = Mona; Larvae Urafe spent day organizing supplies for Kainantu Rain last night. P.T.Ly. cloudy 16 WEDNESDAY 259-106 Goroka - Temp. in 70's. Dinner at Russ Webster's. Sister Bedilia Mulcahy + Jerry O'Callahan in for evening. Frank Hoeter sent over some roasted beetles - excellent. Swarm in Sept. after first Good rain. Shipped specimens to LAE. Packed Rover + trailer. ACTING A.D.C. Here is Mick Foley (while D.C. Bill Seale on leave).

30 Days SEPTEMBER 1959 9th Month FAIR (Mrs. Symons-Mgr) 17 THURSDAY 260-105 (61 miles) GOROKA TO KAINANTU STAYED NIGHT AT LOVELY SMALL HOTEL. PLAYED TABLE TENNIS + COLLECTED 3 FROGS IN SWIMMING POOL. MET A.D.O, GUS A.M. BOTTRILL + C.P.O. GAVIN CARTER (OKAPA). WILL SEND MAIL OUT TO US, BAITS HAD ARRIVED FROM JOHN WOMERSLEY, DRIVE FROM GOROKA NOT TOO INTERESTING - MOSTLY GRASS + POOR FOREST. ONE NICE PATCH OF HOOP PINE NEAR THE DIRNANTINA RIVER. HAD THE "RUNS" FROM EATING THE BEETLES! BILL BALMAIN - DEPT. MINES, D. EDUC. O. GORDON W.T. McMEERTIN, GUS 13. ONCE AT TAPINI IN GOILALA COUNTRY, ONCE CLIMBED MT. AL. EDW. FAIR 18 FRIDAY 261-104 KAINANTU TO PUROSA LEFT AT 8:40 A.M. AFTER FINAL VISIT AT OFFICE. MET DR. VINCE ZIGAS - WORKING ON "KURU" DISEASE. 23 ROAD MILES S. OF KAINANTU TOOK NEW LOOP ROAD (7000 FT.). FOREST AFTER 1 MILE + SOON CAME TO VILLAGE, OFOENA-BAMIA, 7000'. POOR SHOW. BOUGHT COLLECTION OF "TROPHY" BONES + SKULLS. GOOD FOREST OKAPA 12:30 (6650 FT.) - 36 MILES FROM K. LUNCH WITH DR. ANDREW GRAY (ADELAIDE) AND E.M.A. BRANNON (S.P.). ALSO MET DR. AURICHTY (SPT). DROVE TO END OF ROAD AT PUROSA. TURNED BACK + MRDE CAMP IN FOREST. HEAVY MIST AND LIGHT RAIN DURING NIGHT. EARLY MIST, CLEARING, MIST AT 2: 19 SATURDAY 262-103 PUROSA SPENT DAY CLEARING CAMP SITE AND SETTLING IN, LOVELY FOREST. EARLY MIST, THEN FAIR, RAIN AT 4: 20 SUNDAY 263-102 PUROSA A YOUNG BOY CAME INTO CAMP WITH FIRST KNOWN & MAYERMYS

9th Month SEPTEMBER 1959 30 Days OVERCAST 21 MONDAY 264-101 DR. AURICHT + MEDICAL STUDENT (A 7 DAY) CAME FOR LUNCH. GOING ON PATROL FOR A WEEK TO GATHER KURU GENEALOGIES. RAIN, SOME SUN, RAIN 22 TUESDAY 265-100 JOHN DROVE TO OKAPA TO BRING CARTER DOWN TO PICK UP DR. A'S ROVER. SISTER TODD (FRIEND OF RUTH AURICHT) ALONG FOR THE RIDE. 23 WEDNESDAY 266-99- GOOD MAMMAL DAY.

30 Days SEPTEMBER 1959 9th Month 196-52 24 THURSDAY 267-98 JOHN BARRETT (FROM AIYORA) + J. VAN VELDERS, PLANT VIROLOGIST VISITED CAMP. VAN V. ASSISTS DR. DOROTHY SHAW (P.T.M.). 197-51 POROSA SUN BUT MOSTLY CLOUD. 25 FRIDAY 268-97 ANOTHER HECTIC DAY. 67 MAMMALS, 12 SPECIES. 3 LEPTOMYS CAME IN FROM KAMILA! FIRST FOR THE TRIP. P.O., GAVIN CARTER PICKED UP DR. AURICHS + AT POROSA, CAME BACK + HAD LUNCH WITH US. NOTE TO KAY + MARY + JOHN WOMERSLEY. S 198-50 26 SATURDAY 269-96 POROSA 199-49 EARLY MIST: SUN. SHOWERS AT 4! 27 SUNDAY 270-95 POROSA

9th Month SEPTEMBER 1959 30 Days FAIR 200-48 POROSA 28 MONDAY 271-94 CAUGHT MY FIRST HYDROMYS (OUR 3RD IN THE HIGHLANDS) IN MY STEEL MEAT SET IN THE LITTLE GULLY BEHIND CAMP. SEEMS NORMAL COM- PARED WITH THE MT. WILHELM SPECIMEN. LIKLIK SITINNED HIM + WE TOOK OFF BEFORE 9! FOR OKTAPA TO FIND A LOCAL BAT CAVE. ON THE WAY WE MET DR. MAR WHO IS HERE IN THE AREA FOR A MONTH COLLECTING ECTOS + INSECTS IN GENERAL. WE FOUND THE CAVE UNDER THE ROAD BUT IT TERMINATED AT A SMALL HOLE, WHICH WE COULD NOT NEGOTIATE. NO SMELL OF BATS. AFTER LUNCH DROVE TO SMALL VILLAGE OF ILAFO - 3 MI. S.E. OF OKTAPA. NATIVES TOOK US TO A BIG LIMESTONE CAVE - ESINDONA - WHERE WE COLLECTED LARGE TSM. MINIOPTERUS + DOBSONIA. NARROW SOLUTION TUNNEL. SAW MURDERED WOMAN + CHILD ON 201-47 POROSA WAY HOME. P.O. CARTER 29 TUESDAY 272-93 BUSY DAY WITH MAMMALS. CLEAR EARLY, CHILLY, OVERCAST, 30 WEDNESDAY 273-92 POROSA

31 Days OCTOBER 1959 10th Month FAIR UNTIL 5: - COTTON WOOL FORT: 203-45 OKAPA AREA - NEAR PUROSA 1 October THURSDAY 274-91 MOST INTERESTING CATCH OF DAY WAS TAIL OF A BANDICOOT; IT IS NOT P. L. WHICH HAS A WHITE-TIPPED TAIL - THIS IS BLACK - MAYBE P. RAFF. WE STILL HAVE STEELS OUT, SO WE MAY CATCH THE FRONT END. MADE UP A FEW MORE OF THE ESINDONA MINIOPTERUS. SMALL BOYS BROUGHT IN 2 MORE OF THE BLACK-TAILED MELOMYS - CAUGHT IN TREES, JOHN + I TRIED FOR BATS AT THE GAP - I SHOT 1 PIP - LOOKED LARGE IN THE FOG. MOTHS COMING IN WELL TONIGHT; NO TACKING. THIS WAS MY FIRST QUIET DAY IN THIS CAMP. 1 HOINCH SNAKE CAME IN, NATIVE HANDLED IT AS IF NON-POISONOUS, SAwni BROUGHT IN A MUCH FLATTENED TREEFROG (FROM FELLED TREE). MI. SP. TRAPS (TOBRAM) IN TODAY. SPECIMENS DRYING WELL. FAIR - STARS OUT. 2 FRIDAY 275-90 PUROSA OUR STEEL TRAPS CAUGHT A BANDICOOT BUT HE LEFT ONLY HIS FRONT FOOT. FEEL SURE THIS IS ANOTHER SPECIES THAN P. L.O., TOBRAM FOUND A WALLABY MANDIBLE IN FOREST THIS MORNING, ALL TRAPS IN, UNPINNED SEVERAL BOARDS. WRAPPED SKINS: I HAVE ALMOST A FULL BLACK BOX OF SPECIMENS. TOBRAM SHOTA B. OF P. IN A.M. (6 PLUMES - A BEAUTY). HE EXPECTED TO KEEP IT FOR AN ORNAMENT BUT I SITINNED IT AND IT MADE UP VERY NICELY. WE WILL HAVE TO KEEP HIM ON PIGEONS. NO LUCK AT ALL ON BATS AT THIS CAMP. SHOT A PIP TONIGHT IN FRONT OF CAR LIGHTS. ONLY 2 SPECIES FOR LOCALITY. TOTAL OF 33 FOR CAMP. HERPS: 50 FROGS; 11 SNAKES; 65 LIZARDS. CLOSE TO 300 MAMMALS FOR 2 WEEKS. DINNER. FAIR. LETTER & CHECK FR.G.E. 3 SATURDAY 276-89 PUROSA TO OKAPATO SONOFI UP AT 6. PACKED PIN-OUT TRAYS. STRUCK CAMP. JOHN TO KAINANTU LOADED ROVER + TRAILER. OFF AT 9:55. TER AT OKAPA WITH DR. & MRS. AURI- CHT (KURU GENETICS). SAW CARROLL GANNON + DR. GREY. FOUND DR MAR AT SONOFI VISITED LIMESTONE CAVE WITH SMALL STREAM FLOWING THRU IT, NO BATS; ONLY CAVE SWIFTLETS (CLICKING). BATS CLEANED OUT. MAR GAVE 2 SPECIES OF MINIOPTERUS TO ME - COLL. BY SMALL BOYS, ALSO AN ANTECHINUS JUST BROUGHT IN. DROVE TO K. + STAYED NIGHT AT HOTEL K. MET A MR. SAMUELS AT DINNER (MINER). BED EARLY FAIR DRY + HOT! 4 SUNDAY 277-88 KAINANTU MEASURED & SHINNED ANTECHINUS. CATALOGUED SONOFI BATS. BOARDS OUT TO DRY IN SUN. MET MICHAEL GALLI (YOUNG TAX COLL. + CENSUS TAKER) - COLLECTS PLANTS. ALSO MINER, FRED SUTHERLAND (NO RELATION TO SCOTTY (GEORGE'S) AT KAINDI) FROM WAU. WRAPPED + PACKED SPECIMENS. BOX #4 TO LAE (ALL SKINS). MET TED U BANK CAME TO T.N.G. 1929. WROTE ITAY, HOBY, DICK V.G., IRVING DINHOFER DUSTY MILLER, SENT HIS CHECK TO BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY £257

10th Month OCTOBER 1959 31 Days 207-41 5 MONDAY 278-87 KAINANTU TO ARAU REPACKED TRAILER, LEAVING SOME SUPPLIES IN GOVT. STORES, BOUGHT SUPPLIES AT DON McBEATH'S + AT MRS. TUDOR'S TRADE STORE, DROVE FIRST TO AIURA TO VISIT JOHN BARRETT (ENTOMOLOGIST) + ORB SCHINDLER, DIRECTOR OF HIGHLANDS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTAL STATION. TURNED OFF MAIN ROAD TO THE EAST INTO THE KRATKE MTS. MT. ELANDORA DOMINATES THE LANDSCAPE 208-40 6 TUESDAY 279-86 ARRAU Reminder: Have you ordered your Diary for next year? 209-39 7 WEDNESDAY 280-85 ARRAU

31 Days OCTOBER 1959 10th Month 8 THURSDAY 281-84 ARAU 9 FRIDAY 282-83 ARAU 10 SATURDAY 283-82 ARAU FAIR. HEAVY CUMULUS. 11 SUNDAY 284-81 ARAU Kim FOUND THE CUSCUS THIS A.M. IN THE SPOT WE EXPECTED IT TO DROP, BROWN-HEAD OFFERED FOR SALE WALLY BOUGHT IT FOR BRONWYN. BROUGHT IN ALL TRAPS - ONLY 2 MELOMYS. LARNER FAMILY + JOHN OFF TO ARONA TO PICK UP A 2MO. OLD HORSE,

10th Month OCTOBER 1959 31 Days 12 MONDAY 214-34 285-80 ARAU 13 TUESDAY 286-79 ARAU 14 WEDNESDAY 287-78 ARAU

31 Days OCTOBER 1959 10th Month 15 THURSDAY 288-77 ARAU 16 FRIDAY 289-76 ARAU 17 SATURDAY 290-75 ARAU 220-28 18 SUNDAY 291-74 ARAU

10th Month OCTOBER 1959 31 Days 19 MONDAY 222-73 ARAU 20 TUESDAY 293-72 ARAU 21 WEDNESDAY 294-71 ARAU T. C. MAR VISITED ARAU WITH J. BARRETT

31 Days OCTOBER 1959 10th Month 22 THURSDAY 295-70 ARAU 23 FRIDAY 296-69 ARAU 24 SATURDAY 297-68 ARAU 227-21 25 SUNDAY 298-67 ARAU OUR LAST DAY AT THE LARNERS. REGRET WE CAN'T SPEND ANOTHER MONTH! LAST NIGHT WET + MIST; THIS ACCOUNTED FOR OUR 2ND ROUSSETTUS ON THE HIGHLANDS - IN THE LARGE MIST NET UNDER THE FIG TREES IN THE HORSE PADDOCK. SPENT AFTERNOON WRAPPING + PACKING, # 14 BOX FULL OF SPECIMENS (SKINS ONLY). RAIN TONIGHT; DRINKS UNTIL 11 P.M. THEN DINNER ! 40 RAT TRAPS +21 STEELS ON BROOK NEAR SASARA.

10th Month OCTOBER 1959 31 Days FAIR, AS USUAL, FOR MOVING. 26 MONDAY 298-20 ARAU → KAINANTU → KASSAM UPAT 6:15. MEASURED DACTYLOPSILA WHICH CAME IN YESTERDAY P.M. LIK LIK STINNED + I MADE UP AFTER BREAKFAST, JOHN TOOK LEN TO TARANKA AIR STRIP FOR HIS FLIGHT OVER THE MARKHAM VAL- LEY TO WANTO AT WITH LAURIE CROWLEY. J. LOADED ROVER. COFFEE AT THE LARNERS (MURIEL LESLIE, WALTER HENRY, BRONWYN ROSALIE) - TEN + AUDREY NORA, MARGARET + SHERRY-ANN) LOW - PT. M. ST. BELOW WILLIS'. MY LUCK HELD - HYDROMYS IN A STEEL - 30 SP. FOR ARAU! 167 SPECIMENS, WE STOPPED AT AIYURA TO SEE JOHN BARRETT - HIGHLANDS AGRI. EXP. STATION. LUNCH AT 1: AT HOTEL KAINANTU. SAW A.D.O. GUS BOTTRILL, GAVIN CARTER+ FINE HOUSE AT PRISON MICHAEL GATTI (WITH YG. CUSCUS). 31 MI. DRIVE VIA AIYURA TO K. CAMP. SHOT 1 EMBALLONURA. FAIR + PLEASANTLY COOL. 27 TUESDAY 229-19 KASSAM 4400 FT. MADE UP THE HYDROMYS + EMBALLONURA. ORGANIZED MY "LAB". VERY GOOD LIGHT. WROTE LETTERS IN A.M.: KATHERINE, DICK VAN GELDER, DOROTHY + BILL. TO BRAM + LIK LIK HAVE 61 TRAPS OUT (21 STEELS, 40 M. SP.). TO BRAM + I CLIMBED DIRECTLY UP THE RIDGE + STRUCK A GOOD TRAIL ON THE TOP GOING NORTH. BS-OF-P PIGEONS, COCKATOOS IN FULL VOICE. FLAMING ORANGE-RED D'ALBERTIS CREEPER CLIMBING INTO CROWNS OF TREES, CUT TRACK WITH LIK LIK DOWN (EAST) TO ROAD AGAIN. GOOD JACKING TRAIL: JOHN+TOBRAM JACKING TO NIGHT. WROTE HORRIE CLISSHOLD IN WAU, + LOUIS HUNTOON. FIRST TRAP NIGHT A DISAPPOINTMENT - 4 SMALL REDDISH MELOMYS, A BEAUTIFUL SPECIES. NATIVES BROUGHT ME A DACTYLOPSILA AND PERORYCTES RAFF, OUR FIRST OF THE TRIP. EMBALLONURA SHOT LAST NIGHT WAS CARRYING EMBRYO, AS ARE MOST OF THE BATS I AM CATCHING. WALKED UP INTO THE NOTCH IN HILLS IN BACK (EAST) OF CAMP.

31 & 30 Days OCT. & NOV. 1959 10th & 11th Months 231-17 29 THURSDAY 302-63 KASSAM FAIR + PLEASANT 232-16 30 FRIDAY 303-62 KASSAM 3 NEW SPECIES: LORENTZIMYS, RATTUS EX., MINIOPTERUS (L.) FOR THIS CAMP - TOTAL 10. SORTED OUT HERPS + RODENTS - NEW SOLUTION, 1 KINGFISHER IN NET - LONG BILL, BRIGHT BLUE. LET IT GO. JOHN, LEN, + TSING DROVE DOWN INTO MARKHAM VALLEY. IN P.M. TSING TOOK ECTOS FROM SEVERAL MAMMALS. NATIVES HAVE NOT BROUGHT IN ANYTHING SINCE WEDNESDAY. LIT LIT PUT BIG BAT NET UP TODAY. 233-15 31 SATURDAY 304-61 KASSAM 234-14 1 November SUNDAY 305-60 KASSAM

11th Month NOVEMBER 1959 30 Days 235-13 2 MONDAY 306-59 KASSAM 236-12 3 TUESDAY 307-58 KASSAM 237-11 4 WEDNESDAY 308-57 KASSAM

30 Days NOVEMBER 1959 11th Month 238-10 5 THURSDAY 309-56- KASSAM 239-9 6 FRIDAY 310-55- KASSAM 240-8 7 SATURDAY 311-54- KASSAM 241-7 8 SUNDAY 312-53- KASSAM

11th Month NOVEMBER 1959 30 Days 242-6 9 MONDAY 313-52 KASSAM TO WATER RICE STEEP BUT GOOD ROAD DOWN INTO THE MARKHAM. THE ARAUCA RIAS WITH THEIR YELLOWISH USNER WERE VERY IMPRESSIVE - SCATTERED. HILLSIDES VERY STEEP - ALMOST A HANGING FOREST. GOOD REST HOUSE AT WATER RICE (HOUSE KIAP). ABOUT 1500 FT. 243-5 10 TUESDAY 314-51 WATER RICE# SID STAINES + HIS "RINGER" ANDY GRANT ("ROWDY") DROP- PED IN FOR A DRINK(S)! ON THE WAY HOME TO GUSAP. HE + LEN TALKED QUEENSLAND NAMES FOR 2 HOURS. FAIR 11 WEDNESDAY 315-50 244-4 WATER RICE (PATRICIA) VISITED SID STAINES & MRS. STAINS ON THE ATKINSON CATTLE STATION AT GUSAP. WE LOOKED FOR BAT CAVES BUT, WHEN PRESSED FOR DETAILS, NATIVES DID NOT KNOW WHERE THEY WERE. GOOD GRASS + FINE LOOKING CATTLE TACKED IN COCONUT PLANTATION 2 MILES EAST, SAW 2 PETAURUS BUT TOO WARY. SHOT 1 YELLOW-NAPED PTEROPUS, FIRST SINCE MARKHAM BRIDGE NEAR LAE.

30 Days NOVEMBER 1959 11th Month 245-3 12 THURSDAY 316-49 WATER RICE OUR USUAL HYDROMYS IN TRAPS. TONIGHT I VISITED THE COCONUT PALM IN BACK OF THE REST HOUSE FOR THE 4TH NIGHT + THIS TIME PETAURUS EXPOSED HIMSELF TOO LONG. HE IS A PECULIAR MIXED BROWN + GRAY. I ALSO JACKED A NYCTIMENE HANGING ONLY 3 FEET FROM THE GROUND IN THE SCRUB WHERE WE HAVE OUR TRAP LINES. LIK LIK WAS OUT IN P.M. WITH HIM. HE FOUND A PURE WHITE CUSCUS! PHALANGER MACULATUS. HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE IN THE FLESH BEFORE. FAIR 246-2 13 FRIDAY 317-48 WATER RICE TO UMI RIVER TRAPS + NETS IN BEFORE 7: OUR 4TH HYDROMYS + 1 RATTUS. AN HOUR'S RUN (14 MILES) TO THE "REST HOUSE" THIS SIDE (S) OF THE FIRST (W) UMI RIVER. AFTER A GOOD CLEANING THE HOUSE SUITED US VERY WELL; GOOD TIGHT THATCH ROOF, ROOFED AREA IN FRONT FOR WORKING + MEALS. SURROUNDED BY STEEP HILLS + HEAVY FOREST, GARDEN PATCH SURROUNDING US. PUT OUT 1 NET + 10 M.S., 20 RATS. RAIN BEGAN AT 6 P.M. + OCCASIONAL HEAVY SHOWERS ALL THRU NIGHT. JACKED FOR AN HOUR, SAW SEVERAL FLYING FOXES. FAIR, HEAVY CUMULUS, 247-1 14 SATURDAY 318-47 UMI RIVER (1600 FT.) NOTHING IN TRAPS; 1 SYCONYCTERIS + A KINGFISHER IN NET OVER BROOK. KINGFISHER MADE NO STRUGGLE WHILE BEING RELEASED. AFTER LUNCH I WALKED WEST FOR A MILE ALONG THE RIGHT (S) BANK OF THE UMI RIVER TO THE LAND SLIP WHERE RIVER SWINGS TO THE N.W. POOR FOREST ALONG OLD FLOOD BANK. TOOK 1 SYCONYCTERIS OUT OF NET, JACKED 2 HRS, 5 ALONG ROAD. FOXES, HEAVY CLOUD, BUT FAIR MOSTLY. 248-0 15 SUNDAY 319-46 UMI RIVER HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DARLING! ONLY 1 MELOMYS IN TRAPS (110). A SMALL BOY FOUND A RHINOLOPHUS IN A HOLLOW TREE IN BACK OF CAMP. CREST OF NOSE LEAF HAS 4 LITTLE HOLLOWS. AFTER LUNCH JOHN + I WALKED TO UPPER BRIDGE. SOME CARVED FIGURES ON POSTS. RAINED. SET A BAT NET IN BANANA GROVE WHERE BLOSSOM BATS WERE FLYING LAST NIGHT, LIK LIK AND I OUT JACKING; SHOT 1 PHALANGER ORIENTALIS

11th Month NOVEMBER 1959 30 Days 249 16 MONDAY 320-45 Umi River NOTHING IN TRAPS. 1 SYCONYCTERIS IN NET. MOST OF TRAPS IN. JOHN WENT UPSTREAM + SET TRAPS WITH LIKLIK + KIM. I WENT UP ON THE OPPOSITE HILLSIDE WITH TOBRAM + PUT OUT A NEW TRAPLINE. BOTH STUNG BY SOME SMALL WASPS (?) AND TOBRAM ALMOST PUT A TRAP ON TOP OF A SHORT, VERY THICK-BODIED SNAKE, WITH A WICKED LOOKING HEAD - BROWN + YELLOW TRANSVERSE MARKINGS. CARRIED HIM HOME ON END OF STICK + LEN HELPED ME TO GET HIM INTO CAN. LIKLIK + I JACKED FOR 2 HOURS - NOTHING FAIR. HOT IN SUN. BREEZE 250 17 TUESDAY 321-44 Umi River NOTHING IN TRAPS! 1 MACROGLOSSUS IN BANANA NET - OUR 2ND FOR THE TRIP. JOHN + TOBRAM SAVED THE DAY BY JACKING A UROMYS WITH 3 LARGE EMBRYOS, A MELOMYS + A DOBSONIA WITH LARGE EMBRYO. TOTAL OF 3 NEW MAMMALS FOR THE CAMP - NOW 8. 251 18 WEDNESDAY 322-43 Umi River

30 Days NOVEMBER 1959 11th Month 19 THURSDAY 323-42 Umi R. 252 20 FRIDAY 324-41 Umi R. 253 21 SATURDAY 325-40 Umi R. 254 22 SUNDAY 326-39 Umi R. 255

11th Month NOVEMBER 1959 30 Days 256 23 MONDAY 327-38 Umi River 257 24 TUESDAY 328-37 Umi River WHILE SHOOTING BATS IN THE COCO NUT GROVE 3 MILES WEST OF THE UMI R. JOHN'S BROTHER JOE DROVE UP IN HIS TRUCK (ON HIS WAY TO SEE US - AND THEN ON TO LAE TO PICK UP PARTS FOR NEW SAWMILL ON MT. KERIGOMNA). STAYED THE NIGHT. BROUGHT FRESH MEAT WITH HIM + OUR SUPPLIES FROM GOROKA, 258 25 WEDNESDAY 329-36 VERY HEAVY RAIN, PARTICULARLY OUT IN THE MARKHAM VALLEY WHERE WE WERE WAITING TO BAIT TRAPS + BAT SHOOT, FROM 5:45 TO 6:30 P.M. RAIN CAME THRU OUR THATCH ROOF IN SPOTS.

30 Days NOVEMBER 1959 11th Month FAIR WITH COOL BREEZE 259 26 THURSDAY 330-35 Umi RIVER CLOUDED UP AT 4:P.M. ONLY 1 MAMMAL, A HYDROMYS, FROM A STEEL SET ON THE LITTLE POND NEAR THE RIVER (W. OF CAMP). BROUGHT IN ALL TRAPS (50) FROM THE PATCH OF SCRUB OUT IN THE KUNI. SET 2 BAT NETS IN THE GORGE OF OUR DRINKING STREAM BEHIND CAMP. ALSO 50 TRAPS UP THE RIVER TRAIL TO NEAR THE DRAGON-FLY POND. WRAPPED SPECIMENS. HAVE 1 BLACK BOX FULL OF SKINS; 1 OF SKULLS ETC. ALSO 1 PACKAGE OF SKINS TOO LONG FOR TRUNK. 260 27 FRIDAY 331-34 Umi RIVER 261 28 SATURDAY 332-33 Umi RIVER 262 29 SUNDAY 333-32 Umi R. → LAE TRAPPED OUR 1ST RATTUS IN THIS CAMP!

11th & 12th Months NOV. & DEC. 1959 30 & 31 Days 30 MONDAY 334-31 LAE 1 December TUESDAY 335-30 LAE TO WAU STAYED WITH HORACE + BETTY CLISSOLD. 2 WEDNESDAY 336-29 WAU - ZENAG SPENT NIGHT W. MICHAEL + JEANETTE LEAHY.

31 Days DECEMBER 1959 12th Month 266 3 THURSDAY 337-29 ZENAG TO LAE VISITED BAIUNE RIVER HYDRO ELECTRIC PLANT. MR. ROBERT ALLEN, SUPERINTENDENT, GAVE ME 2 PIECES OF POTTERY. 267 4 FRIDAY 338-27 LAE PACKING 268 5 SATURDAY 339-26 LAE PACKING 6 SUNDAY 340-25 LAE → SALAMAVA → LAE HUGH OSBOURNE, "YELANGILI", INVITED US FOR SWIM + PICNIC. RICHARD LEAHY WENT WITH ME. GRILLED KING FISH.

12th Month DECEMBER 1959 31 Days 269 7 MONDAY 341-24 LAE FINAL NAILING OF CRATES: KEN WYNN IN ON RAY TAYLOR'S "BEV": LOOKS VERY WELL. RUNNING WARISOTA PLANTATION AT ORO BAY FOR BOB BUNTING, 270 8 TUESDAY 342-23 LAE LAST CRATE FINISHED. LEN + I GAVE DINNER TO DEPT. OF FORESTS AT HOTEL CECIL, 271 9 WEDNESDAY 343-22 LAE → GOROKA → NONDUGL LEN + JOHN SAW ME OFF ON GOVERNMENT CHARTER OTTER. GOOD VIEW OF KRATKE MTS. CHARTED A CESSNA + REACHED NONDUGL IN 30 MINUTES. FRANK PEMBLE-SMITH MET ME + LEFT ME AT FRED SHAW MAYER'S HOME. SPENT NIGHT WITH P-S S AT HALLSTROM TRUST HOUSE.

31 Days DECEMBER 1959 12th Month 272 10 THURSDAY 344-21 Nondugl → Goroka Visited all day with Fred. Native opened a cage + he lost a red bofp which he had hand-reared. Fred gave me information on his various trips. Also a sketch map showing his Mt. Simpson route. Bill Taylor picked me up in Otter about 4:30 p.m. Joe Collins was at airport in Goroka. Invited me home for night: steak, of course! 273 11 FRIDAY 345-20 Goroka → Pt. Moresby Margaret Collins + her 4 children flew to Pt. M, with me. Interesting flight to south coast at Kerema + then S.E. over Yule Island. Saw Alan Willis at Steamships. Dinner with Alan and Winks at their home. Met a Com. James Little there (Aust. Navy, Ret.). Stayed at Papua Hotel. Cable to Hobey + Mimi - on their new home 274 12 SATURDAY 346-19 Port Moresby Visited Mr. + Mrs. Hobart Spiller + daughters Maisie + Miriam at their home in Borotta. Very pleasant afternoon + evening. 2 stamped envelopes to Kay 9 months from home! 275 13 SUNDAY 347-18 Pt. Moresby → Brisbane Mr. + Mrs. Willis called for me at Hotel Papua at 10:30 a.m. Maisie Spiller also called to say goodbye at Jackson's Air- port. Super Connie "Southern Seas". ETA Brisbane 5:15 p.m. Wrote: Clissolds, F.S. Mayer, M.+T. Leahy, Van Gelder, Bob + Peggy White

12th Month DECEMBER 1959 31 Days 276 14 MONDAY 348 17 BRISBANE QUEENSLAND INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH HANDED BLOOD SMEARS TO DR. M. 277 15 TUESDAY 349 16 BRISBANE Q.I.M.R. To MUSEUM 1 N P.M. 278 16 WEDNESDAY 350 15 BRISBANE MUSEUM To DINNER AT HOME OF MR. + MRS. MALCOLM McANNA

31 Days DECEMBER 1959 12th Month 279 BRISBANE 17 THURSDAY 351 14 Museum DINNER WITH MCANNAS ALL WENT TO PRO TENNIS MATCHES: HOARD VS. ROSEWALL SEDGEMAN VS. GONZ 280 BRISBANE 18 FRIDAY 352 13 Museum. TOOK STAN BREEDEN + KAY TO DINNER AT LENNONS HOTEL + TO MOVIES "THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE". 281 BRISBANE 19 SATURDAY 353 12 WITH GEORGE MACK BY CAR TO SOUTH COAST. VISITED DAVID FLEAY + HIS FAUNA RESERVE AT WEST BURLEIGH. 282 BRISBANE 20 SUNDAY 354 11 DR. DOROTHEA SANDARS + MARJORIE SMITH TOOK ME NORTH OF BRISBANE TO CALOUNDRA, PAST THE GLASS HOUSE MOUNTAINS. SUPPER IN BRISBANE AT ITALIAN REST.

12th Month DECEMBER 1959 31 Days 283 21 MONDAY 355-10 BRISBANE → INNISFAIL SHOPPED FOR PRESENTS. FLEW INSIDE OF HINCHINBROOK ISLAND. SUPER VISCOUNT T.A.A. TO TOWNESVILLE. FRIENDSHIP TO INNISFAIL. 10:00 - 4:30 JOHN HARRISON MET ME AT AIRPORT. EXCHANGE HOTEL. MET DAN WILTHOF + WIFE, DR. + MRS. JOHN BULMAN. DINNER AT HARRIS- ONS — CHINESE-MALAY — WONDERFUL. DAN IS FULBRIGHT WORKING ON HERPS. JOHN H. HAS 2 SONS. 284 22 TUESDAY 356-9 INNISFAIL WORKED AT Q.I. OF M.R. LEE EMANUEL TOOK ME OUT TO SEE WHERE TRAPS WERE SET. MEASURED SKULLS. HAD WILTHOFS TO DINNER + THEN TO BULMAN'S FOR EVENING. BILL MARKWELL, WHO KNOWS NORTH VERY WELL, ALSO CAME IN. 285 23 WEDNESDAY 357-8 INNISFAIL AT Q.I.M.R. FIELD STATION. MEASURED SKULLS. JOHN GAVE ME ALL HIS BANDICOOT SKULLS + A FEW OTHER ODD SKULLS. BOUGHT SUITCASE TO HOLD THEM ALL. MET DR. + MRS. WILLIAM MARKWELL. ORCHID GARDEN. SENT ME OUT TO VISIT BILL BOYD WHO GROWS PLANTS; HE GAVE ME 2 FOR MRS. COLLINS. HAD JOHN + HIS WIFE + CHILDREN AT HOTEL FOR DINNER. SHOWED CAPE YORK SLIDES AFTER DINNER.

31 Days DECEMBER 1959 12th Month 286 24 THURSDAY 358-7 INNISFAIL TO TULLY LEE EMANUEL DROVE ME TO THE COLLINS' HOME, COLLINS WERE IN CAIRNS MEETING CHARTER PLANE FROM LAE. JOHN + FAMILY HOME AFTER DINNER, MR. COLLINS' BROTHER-IN-LAW, GUY CLARK, AND I DROVE AROUND TULLY IN P.M. + HAD DINNER MRS. C. HAS BEAUTIFUL GARDEN OF EXOTIC PLANTS: CABLE FROM HOME! SENT CABLE TO ITAY. 287 25 FRIDAY 359-6 Christmas Day TULLY A LOVELY CHRISTMAS DAY WITH THE COLLINS FAMILY. WENT FOR SWIM IN BANYAN RIVER. DROVE DOWN TO BEACH 289 26 SATURDAY 360-5 TULLY TO MR. C'S PADDOCK TO PUT OUT FEED + RIDE AROUND. TO FRIENDS, PHIL THEODORE + FAMILY, ON BANKS OF TULLY RIVER. HUNTED WALLABIES IN A.M. NONE! 290 27 SUNDAY 361-4 TULLY DROVE UP TO TULLY FALLS GORGE TO SEE NEW POWER STATION. HUNTED FOR WALLABY IN A.M. DOWN AT MR. C'S PADDOCK. RAINING HARD. COLLECTED A SMALL GREEN FROG IN PUDDLE IN FIELD. TOOK JOHN + TOC ELYN TO MOVIES.

12th Month DECEMBER 1959 31 Days 28 MONDAY 362-3 TULLY Sun out at last. Cyclone "Dora", which has been Giving us inches of rain in last few days, finally blew itself out over Cape York 29 TUESDAY 363-2 TULLY TO CAIRNS DINNER WITH BATES. Home to Bates to see Kodachromes. 30 WEDNESDAY 364-1 CAIRNS TO "SPEEWAH" To Barron Falls with Bates, To Speewah with George + Toy Veivers. Stayed night.

31 Days DECEMBER 1959 12th Month NEW YEARS EVE WITH WEBBS + BROOKS AT HOTEL IMPERIAL, TO MAREEBA TO SEE IVY VEIVERS (A SISTER AT HOSPITAL) VISITED MAURKE + IVY VEIVERS; GEORGE AUSTEN (AT BRICKWORKS). JAN. 1 FRI. 1960 CAIRNS DINNER WITH TOM + AMY WEBB. GUESTS — MR. + MRS. ERNEST STEPHENS, HORTICULTURIST, DEPT. OF AGRIC. E. GAVE ME A TAIPAN FROM IRON RANGE. VISITED GEORGE BROOKS + JESS (JOHN + EDWARD) IN P.M. G. GAVE ME 1 BAT + 1 SNAKE FROM EDGE HILL ALSO 2 AN- TECHINVS FROM NORTH OF TOWNSVILLE. VISITED GORDON STEPHEN AT LAKE PLACID (BARROW WATERS). LUNCH WITH FAMILY. COLL. "BLIND SNAKE". JAN. 2 SAT. 1960 CAIRNS TO GREEN ISLAND. MET ENGLISH GIRL — ON WAY AROUND WORLD. TRICADERO IN EVENING. NEW UNDERWATER OBSERVATION CHAMBER ON REEF. WONDERFUL!

MEMORANDA SET OF ARCHBOLD RESULTS (BIRDS, MAMMALS, INSECTS TO: DR. T.C. MAA (SEE CATALOG FOR ADDRESS) NATURAL HISTORY TO: LAURENCE CROWLEY, LAE. KODACHROMES TO: SONNY + HETANA Soni Hetanin TOBERA VILLAGE P.O. PINDIV FINSCHAFEN, T.N.G. 73 MR. + MRS. HOBART SPILLER [MASIE - TEACHER] SECTION 42 LOT 27 [MIRIAM = B.P. & CO.] CORNER KARA AVE. & ANGAU DRIVE BOROKA, PORT MORESBY

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Dr. LAE Mar.31/59 OTTER "KIETA" Bill TAYLOR HIGH TAKE OFF 7:30 AM. OVERCAST FLYING N. ALONG MARKHAM R. LOW HILLS IN VALLEY LAKE W. + BRAIDED RIVER 7:45 PLAIN OPENS WIDELY. MTs IN HUON PEN. BLUE + TRUGGED. MT.S. VISIBLE IRAP RIV. 7:50 SARAWI RANGE IRAGGED + BLUE TO N. BELOW US MAZES OF SMALL SHARP HILLS+ VALLEYS. A FEW VILLAGES. MANY LAND SLIPS. FLYING AT 5000. WANTOAT AT 8:00. MADE POOLS HIGH ON HILL. BACK TO M. RIV. 8:10 OVER LARGE BRAIDED RIV. 8:12. OVER FIRST OF HIGHLANDS 8:20. COMING IN FOR 1ST STOCK EXPERTA, JOHN + PAT CUNLIFFE. TAKEOFF 8:42. BOXER BITCH ON BOARD - UP TO TIM LAHAY. 1000 FT. NEXT AIYURA 5400' OVER UP. RAMU SOON AFTER TAKEOFF R. HEADS N.W. THRU GAP WHERE TRUCK RD. COMES UP. THIS VALLEY JUST A SMALL FLAT S. OF MARK.V. NEXT VALLEY A STEP UP. KAINANTU VISIBLE A FEW MILES AWAY. DOWN HIGHLANDS AT 8:58. DEPT. OF AQ' RES. STA. COFFEE MR.+MRS. AUBREY SCHINDLER SUMMER INST. OF LINGUISTICS MUNROE + HOLLAND STAYED HERE. TAKE OFF 9:18 LAND 9:22 K. SEPTMEBER—Cash Account Cr. JACK BAKER A DO. BOB GREENY (ON LEAVE) ON BOARD. TAKEOFF 9:45, ON WAY TO GAROKA. MUCH DEFORESTED GARDEN PLOT COUNTRY. ROUND HOUSES WITH THATCH ROOFS IN ALL DIRECTIONS. MT. MICHAEL SHOWING TO S. 9155. CLOUD COVER (CUMULUS) BUILDING UP. OVER PURARI RIVER (PAPUA DRAINAGE) MAIN RD, TO GAROKA 10:05 A.M.

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CONT. THE BAY AREA OF SAN FRANCISCO IS A HORRIBLE SIGHT; ESPECIALLY TO THE SOUTH. NEW HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS ARE PACKED TOGETHER RIGHT OUT TO THE COASTLINE. WE LEFT THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE TO STARBOARD AS WE HEADED OUT ON THE LONG HOP TO HONOLULU. CLEAR NEAR THE COAST BUT WITHIN 30 MILES WE RAN INTO THE EASTERN FRINGE OF ONE OF THE MOST PERFECT MACKEREL SKIES I HAVE EVER SEEN. FOUR HOURS OF SMOOTH AIR ON TOP OF THIS ROLL COTTON SKY. OUR COURSE TO THE SOUTHWEST KEPT THE SUN A FEW POINTS OFF OUR STARBOARD BOW. AIR TRAVEL HAS ONE ADVANTAGE OVER ALL OTHERS, THE WORLD OF CLOUDS IS YOURS TO ENJOY AT CLOSE RANGE; IT IS A NEVER ENDING SOURCE OF PLEASURE, AND PERRY WILSON; THE GREATEST CLOUD PAINTER OF ALL, ALWAYS COMES TO MIND WHEN THE CLOUDS SHAPE UP. LATER ON THE CLOUDS CLOSED RAIN'S AND LATE IN THE AFTERNOON WE RAN OUT OF REGULARITY OF VAPOR CONDENSATION INTO DISTURBED AIR. SEEN AFTER 9 P.M., WE RAISED THE LIGHTS OF OUR 50TH STATE, AND THEN WE PARADLED ALONG THE SOUTH COAST OF OAHU WITH THE MASSED LIGHTS OF HONOLULU RISING FROM THE BEACHES ONTO THE STEEP SLOPED HILLS. DIAMOND HEAD SHOWED AS A DARK AREA IN AMONG THE LIGHTS, LIKE THE "COAL PITS" IN THE MILKY WAY. LEN + I HAD A PLATE OF FRESH PINEAPPLE. I'M BACK IN THE TAKE, AND LATER I HAD A HALF OF MANGO. I'M BACK IN THE 11:45 P.M. dep., HON FOR CANTON R. left, ARR. Canton, 6: A.M. (30°S) Sunrise 6:32 A.M. TROPICS: WELL, ALMOST, THE "COSTUMES" ARE A SIGHT! EVERY ONE LOOKS AS IF THEY WERE DRESSED FOR A MASQUERADE. WHAT AWFUL TASTE. GIVE ME NEW GUINEA WHERE THE WOMEN ARE PROUDLY BARE-BREASTED AND GRASS SKIRTED INSTEAD OF THESE SHAPELESS "NIGHTGOWNS" THAT SHOULD NEVER BE WORN EXCEPT IN PRIVACY. THE LADIES WERE DECKED WITH FRANGIPANI LEIS WHEN THEY STEPPED OFF THE PLANE. THE MOST AMUSING SIGHT WAS IN THE STORE WHERE 2 GIRLS WERE STRING ING A LEIS, HERE I SAW MY FIRST REFRIGERATED HATS! COCONUT PALM HATS, INGENIOUSLY WOVEN, BEING KEPT FRESH FOR THE CUSTOMERS. AT 8:45 WE TOFT OFF WITHOUT FOSS FOR CANTON ISLAND ALMOST 2000 MILES AWAY. WE HAVE A FULL PASSENGER LIST. THE STARS ARE BRIGHT.

LAYERED BENEATH US, THE SKY IS OPENING TO THE WEST AND THIN STREAKS OF BLUE BLACK CLOUDS ARE ETCHED ACROSS THE NOW FAINT BLUE WHITE SKY - NOT REALLY BLUE BUT A STEEL WHITE WITH NO HINT OF WARMTH. VENUS IS AT 30° DUE WEST IN THE NOW CLEAR DARK SKY ABOVE. 6:30 P.M., A LITTLE EMBER GLOW STILL LINGERS IN THE WEST, THE STARS ARE COMING OUT, AND TURTLE SOUP IS ON THE TRAY; ALL DEAD CALM AGAIN, GREAT ALIFS ARE OPENING IN THE SURFACE CLOUD LAYER. I WONDER IF THE ALBATROSSES HAVE SETTLED ON THE WATER FOR THE NIGHT? PACIFIC FLYING IS LIFE IN AN EMPTY WORLD. HOW DIFFERENT IT IS ON THE DECK OF A SHIP. AS LONG AS THERE ARE SEAS THEN SOME WILL ALWAYS CHOOSE THE SLOW TRIP ACROSS THE RESTLESS LIFE-FILLED WATERS. 1959 FRI. MAR. 13 - SAT. MAR. 14 ALTHOUGH N.Y. TAKE-OFF TIME WAS 13:30 FRIDAY 13, WE DIDN'T ACTUALLY FLY UNTIL 03:00, LEN + I LEFT THE HOTEL DAUPHIN BY TAXI JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT FOR THE EAST SIDE AIR LINES TERMINAL. THE GIRL WHO CHECKED US IN PRINT WRITES IN BLOCK CAPITALS JUST AS I DO. HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE DO THIS BEFORE. LEISURELY BUS TRIP TO IDLE- WILD; FOR A WHILE WE FOLLOWED A DRUNK DRIVER WHO WAS WEAVING ALL OVER THE ROAD IN FAIRLY HEAVY TRAFFIC. WE WERE MET BY AN A.P. MAN, DAVID ROBINSON, WHO PASSED AN INTERESTING HOUR. INTERESTED IN OUR TRIP VERY WELL INFORMED, CLEAR NIGHT FOR TAKEOFF, CROSSED G.W. BRIDGE JUST TO SOUTH; SOON FELL ASLEEP; WE ARE TOURIST-RECLINING SEATS. MIDMORNING FOUND US OVER THE FLICKY MTS., AND OUR CAPTAIN FLEW US OVER YOSEMITE VALLEY, FIRST PICTURES. MARY TAYLOR ARRIVED AT AIRPORT WHILE LEN + I WERE HAVING LUNCH. SHE WAS BEING INTERVIEWED AT 12:30 P.M. FOR A JOB AT WELLESLEY SO HAD TO LEAVE AFTER A SHORT BUT VERY PLEASANT VISIT, COULD NOT ADVISE HER ABOUT W., BUT DID RECOMMEND THAT SHE COME EAST, SAID GOOD- BYE HERE TO OUR CAPTAIN WHO IS AN OLD TIME PILOT ON QANTAS, HOWDY HOUSE - A VERY PLEASANT CHAP. BIG QANTAS AD IN SPORTS ILL QUOTE "AND THE SNOWY LINENS THAT WRAP YOUR BREAKFAST ROLLS IN WARMTH"; THE ROLL WAS COLD AS A CLAM, AND IN CELLOPHANE AT THAT! OUR SEAT COMPANION WAS BRUCE SEAMAN, PHOTOGRAPHER FOR A TRAVEL AGENCY SITA 545 FIFTH AVE., JUST RETURNING FROM AFRICA (LIVES IN HONOLULU). KNOWS A MR. RUTLEDGE (IN COFFEE) IN THE HIGHLANDS; ALSO A MR. MOODY (GOLD) IN WEAUT, MANY JAPANESE AT TERMINAL - MY FIRST REAL LOOK AT A CROWD OF JAPANESE, ALL BOWING FROM THE WAIST CONTINUALLY

MARCH 15. 1959 AT 8:20 A.M. NADI TIME WE CROSSED THE THE I.D.L. "WE WILL FLY FROM SUNDAY INTO THE MORNING OF MONDAY, MAR. 16 # LOSING 1 DAY THEREBY" CAPT. E.W.DITTON E.T.A. NADI 10:55 A.M. LOCAL TIME. ON SCHEDULE: DEP. 12:15 2000 MI. TO SYDNEY. SULTRY AND OVERCAST. LIGHT SHOWERS, FRUIT & SANDWICH BAR AT THE HOTEL MOCAMBO - A RATHER DI- LAPIDATED LITTLE HOTEL AT THIS CROSSROADS AIRPORT. PLANES LEAVE HERE FOR NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA & NEW CALEDONIA. ONE OF OUR PASSENGERS TOLD ME ABOUT A RATHER NICE BUNGALOW COLONY 2 MILES OUT OF NOUMEA - AMSE-VATA - RESTAURANT NEARBY. THEY ARE NOW PUTTING DOWN A 10,500 FOOT RUNWAY FOR JETS AT NADI (PRONOUNCED NANDI), VOLCANIC HILLS WITH TYPICALLY SHARP ERO- SION PATTERNS BACKDROP THE AIRPORT. VERY LITTLE TIMBER LEFT. SUGAR CANE IS AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY HERE. WE SAW AT LEAST 2 SUGAR FREIGHTERS ON OUR APPROACH TO THE BIG ISLAND OF VITI LEVU. MY LAST VISIT TO FIJI WAS IN 1948 WHEN OUR FREIGHTER LAID OVER AT SUVA FOR A FEW HOURS (135 MILES AWAY TO THE SOUTH EAST). NADI IS A CHANGE-OVER STOP FOR QANTAS CREW. FIJI IS A BRITISH CROWN COLONY - A PROBLEM COLONY. THE INDIANS ARE BREEDING LIKE RABBITS AND HAVE TAKEN OVER THE BUSINESS OF THE ISLANDS. NATIVE FIJIAN'S ARE EASY GOING AND JUST CAN'T COMPETE WITH THE "JEWS OF THE PACIFIC". TOOK 1 PICTURE OF REEF AS WE MADE ALTITUDE OFF THE END OF THE RUNWAY. HEAD WINDS ON RUN TO SYDNEY - WILL BE AT LEAST TWO HOURS LATE. I HOPE ALLEN KEAST DOESN'T WAIT FOR US. A BROLLING CLEAR BLUE SKY DAY NOW THAT WE HAVE LEFT FIJI BEHIND. LITTLE PUFFY BITS OF CUMULUS ALL OVER THE MAP. A FEW BIG CUMULUS HEADS SCATTERED ON THE HORIZON. THIS IS THE KIND OF DAY THAT YOU GET FOR DAYS ON END WHEN CROSSING THE SOUTH PACIFIC BY SHIP. IT IS NOW THE END OF SUMMER & THE SUN WILL BE ON THE EQUATOR IN A FEW DAYS. WE ARE AT 10,000 FT. AND THE AIR IS SMOOTH,

TONKERS - 3 dirigent Man of square pta, flying in close formation Non shed flight Goroka-Chimbu 10:40 takeoff N.W. fr. Goroka duto foothills #2 roll fr. 5 mill. Gemave 10:55 Chimbu 11:00 Wahgin mall. to W. patchwork Country, Over Wahgi River down to Purari R. Arr. 11:02 Chimbu dep. 1:40 arr. Goroka 2:00 Asaro R. Wahgi 7300 Logging Pt 9000 NILES (Whaky?) Cattalic Papua New Guinea QANTAS

APR. 1, 1959 Goroka 9:25 DEP. To MINJE VIA Mt. WILHELM MIDJGE 10:4PM APDO. M. CRAIGE SYMMONS MINI → HAGAN 4:15 — 12:30 PICTURE (Picture) HAGAN ON RGT. Mt.GIN.(Jan 24th) HAGAN d.3:45 Goroka 4:20 Raining hard Then JAP- 4:15 Chindu in Picnic (clouds) Trip Chindu— Valley—Wahgi Gorge Goroka dep. 4:25 Returning Fairypail 5:10 To Mka.Rain- three JAP Lae 5:30

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LAYERED BENEATH US, THE SKY IS OPENING TO OUR AGEN IN Ho MR. M LOCK