formerly was the driest part is now very wet at L23 p.18. high on account of the lack of rain off. Healy went by canoe to pay a visit to Rand this morning. when the Suki canoemen came back they had brought down old dried skins of wallabies, not savanna but scrub wallabies, and the curious thing is that most of the skins had skulls in them, the skulls apparently cleaned of their meat by ants or dermestics. I bought the lot- 2 stocks of tobacco for them with skulls, one for a skin lacking a skull. - On noting them on things turn out to be seven bills. The series contains six Dorcopsis and five Macropus bunnii, close mimics. To compensate for getting Dorcopsis (new to the collection) the skulls are mis-matched so all skulls sole skins will have to be treated as representing separate individuals. Thus Sep. 17. Last night we had quite a disturbance. At nearly 10 o'clock one of our trip came to say that a Suki woman had been bitten by a death-adder, but that the snake had bitten two dogs first. The dogs were already dead; and they were bringing the woman over for us to look at. Well we got out the snake-bite outfit and antiseptics etc in readiness. When they came we saw an old woman supported on either side by a bushman, 4 about ten other men following behind. She was covered from head to foot with wood-ashes, whether for pleasure (before being bitten) or as a "cure" I could not learn. She had been bitten along the inside face (adjoining the next finger) of the index finger of the left hand. Punctures were barely visible but the back of the hand was a bit c swollen. I opened the finger with a hard nick slit (one each side, parallel to the artery) and blood flowed fairly freely. Then rubbed in permanganate crystals. Next we gave her a good shot of rum- to stimulate her. Her pulse remained quite strong and only a bit slow. The ligature which