L10, S 4a FIELD JOURNAL? G.H.H.TATE? ARCHEOLD 1926 NEW GUINEA EXP. Daru. Feb. 27, 1926. Thursday. This page commences the general and field notes of G. H. H. Tate, of the advanced party of the expedition. A synopsis of movements of the party is first offered: Left Los Angeles January 8. Arrived Sydney January Left Sydney Arrived Port Moresby Spent three days at Rona Falls collecting and getting generally acquainted with the Astrolabe Mountain country. Left Port Moresby Feb. 20 Arrived Daru Monday Feb. 24 . On the evening of our dining with Dr. Vernon he told us several amusing and interesting stories of his recent visit to Japan and Formosa, and how in the latter place he was invariably escorted by the police from village to village. Wilson, skipper of the Veimauri had also been invited. He, Vernon and I tried our hands at the piano, which is somewhat the worse for weather. Tues. Feb. 25. Devoted to sorting out stores and getting the big cases up and stowed away under the house. The boys reported bats in under the leaves of a coconut nearby which Rand shot (four) all females. They proved to be Dobsonia and may be the same as the species recently described by Glover Allen from Queensland. None was in breeding condition. I skinned them out in the afternoon and then we attended a little teaparty at Dr. Vernon's house where we met Mr and Mrs Woodward (he is R. M. for the district), Mr. and Mrs. Leydon (he is customs man), Mr. Schlenker (missionary). In the evening I picked up a few moths at the gasoline light. Wed. Feb. 26. More sorting of stores. I got my 6' by 6' by 6' skinning tent erected. It is made of mosquitonet and is designed to keep off flies and mosquitos so that I can skin specimens in peace, no matter how "high" they may have become. In the afternoon put up the bat net. It is very delicate and easily tangled up and requires a great deal of patience and finesse to get it properly ad- justed. Went afterwards with Beach to see his "farm", about a mile and a half out of town along the one road of the island which crosses from side to side. He has a number of cows, two horses, nine young ducks and some older ones, a lot of hens, about four dogs, and feeds them almost entirely on a mixture of corn and shredded coconut. He is growing a few tomatoes and beans, and off to the southeast about two hundred yards has a large garden in which a number of native vegetables and bananas and pawpaws seem to do exceedingly well. Directly behind Beach's farm is a big coconut grove belonging to Maidment (the man who owned a radio set until recently). A short quarter mile east south of Beach's is Dr. Vernon's place where he growing an experimental 40 acres of kapok trees. Rand started the boys clearing off a patch of ground on which we shall be able to beach the "Kono" our flying boat. When I got back from Beach's I took a walk down there (the tide being out) and found that practically the whole 'tween tides expanso to be of relaiely level rock. The rock appears to be sedimentary in origin, a coarse, gritty shaly sandstone which however contains some rounded pebbles and also unrounded material perhaps a quarter of an inch in size. The laminations vary, some being quite fine and others of coarse material. In addition there are inclusions, usually quite round that seem to to represent bowlders, or perhaps even filled and cemented potholes. Some have resisted erosion better than the matrix and stand out as rounded eminences.