Before supper with the Thomasons we drove about a mile through cane fields to the foot of the Coast Range to sum up possibilities for collecting. Thomason's barracks, about ten minutes walk from the foot of the range and the base of a long leading spur up which an old track goes to the top of Bell's Peak, would make a good base camp. The foot- hill slopes most uninviting. A type of savanna forest, twice cut over for firewood, and now overgrown with Lantana undergrowth. A four inch pipe line, taking water to Thomason's homestead, is said to go half a mile up the mountain side and lead one into good rain-forest. The sav Inc anna-forest peters out at a few hundred feet altitude. Patches of deadetchimber at 500-1000 feet in the rain-forest of the leading spur would probably be an obstacle to the climb up Bell's Peak. Jim Buzacott of the Merinda Experimental Farm (a son-in-law of Thomason) ascended Bell's Peak about eight years ago (4 hours up, 3 down) and offers to go guide us if we decide to make the ascent during the Easter holidays. At least one night camp would be necessary to allow us opportunity to ationcollect, and it seems doubtful if water can be got high on the range, or rocks or palm leaves for shelter.