No less than seven visitors in camp this evening. It is nice of them to come, and bring cakes and ice cream, but they are a nuisance in a camp where there is night work to do. Mammals don't keep. This has been a good day for mammals. Two rats in traps; four small bats brought in alive by Lane's linesman, who found them in a crack in a power line pole; and a big "scrub" wallaby, probably a paddymelon, shot after the visitors departed. I took part in this night's hunt, carrying a 410 gun on loan from Arthur Taylor. The rain forest very still, and it smelled good, as we worked slowly up the road to the intake. A few crickets and cicadasairly until Van heard something back a little way in the forest, caught its form with his light, and shot his wallaby. Only green spider's eyes caught with our lights. In some places, when our lights were turned off, wood trotting on the ground gave off a soft phosphorescent glow. Friday March 19 Left the Mossman Gorge at 2 pm and arrived Cairns about 8.30. Van with 25 mammals, Geoff with a fair collection of insects, and myself with about 45 plant numbers. A good deal of my time was spent in search of an extremely rare member of the Podostemataceae which has not been col- lected since it was discovered rather south of here by Walter Hill in 1874. No luck in this. The best mammal in Van's collection is a marsup- ial mouse of rich, rather chocolaty brown color; next a pair of Melomys sp., the first of the genus (genus centered in New Guinea) which George has seen in Australia. We were driven into Mossman by Harold Lane, and from there traveled def we left Moss- man, George arrived from his collecting locality near Julatten, with a Main Roads overseer. George happy with a Hypsoprymnodon, a female, shot in the rain-forest last evening about 5 o'clock. He, too, trapped a marsupial mouse, which, without close comparison, seems different from Van's. George has 20 mammals for his trip, including several small bats in pickle. For mammals, which are the prime purpose of our trips out of Cairns, 45 specimens in not at all bad going for limited collecting for a week. George has made an offer to the son of his Julatten farmer hosts (Hannah) to pay 5/- each for ten specimens of Hypsoprymnodon preserved in formalin. This little beast evidently common in the locality, but obtainable only by patient still hunting in early morning and late evening. George saw several which he could not get a shot at. Mails included a letter from Tom Gilliard saying he will be delayed in Papua and therefore will not be able to join us on the tip of the Peninsular on our delayed schedule. He emiums again that, according istions, his mission to the Peninsula was to train local collect- ors to collect birds. Another letter contained a strong recommendation from the Ore Producers and Prospectors Association, of Mareeba, that we collect in the Herbert and Broadwater Gorges (ca. 100 miles south of Cairns). We