Pandanus, about 30 ft. high, with long, branched stilt roots, was plentiful close to the creek, in association with groups of a tall palm, fully 60 ft. tall, which looked like Gulibia.. In all, I saw in the rain forest near the sawmill, 7 palm species: 3 with feather leaves, 2 with fan leaves, l Caryota, and 1 Calamus. All the palms were either sterile or with very young fruits. The Pandanus had dropped its fruits. Very few trees in flower or fruit. Apparently the fruiting season has ended recently. The rain forest does not look promising for collecting at this time of year. A thriving day for mammals. All the trappers but Van - who got nothing from his line, set late in the afternoon - had good catches. Total score 17 (Rattus leucopus and Melomys sp.), plus a wallaby (Macropus agilis) shot by Van. Geoff did some long distance, but not very profitable, walking for insects. His most interesting take for the day was perhaps a reddish land crab, about 2½ in. in diameter, which had eaten about half the meat off a rat caught in one of George's traps. No rain has fallen since we have been here. Rather high temperatures during the day are tempered by the southeast trade wind, which is slowed by the land to the east and reaches us as a gentle breeze. From about five in the evening to late at night, and again from daylight to around 8 o'clock, the air is soft and cool. In the early hours before dawn one needs at least one blanket for comfort. Last night I had to get into my sleeping bag. Maximum temperature 31 C., Minimum 20. Thermometers set about 4 ft. above the ground on the shady trunk of a mango tree in front of my tent. Saturday April 24 Sampled the rain-forests on the crest of the divide behind camp. The divide, separating the waters flowing east to the Pacific and west to the Gulf of Carpentaria, is flat-topped and about 200 feet high - 100 higher than camp. The forest is of a dry type, with no large trees, an abundance of small tree undergrowth, easy to get through, and practically nothing in the way of herbaceous undergrowth or epiphytes. Looking through the forest, one notices a vine here and there, but thin-stemmed species occur in abundance, and they held up every small tree my boy cut down. Reddish lateritic rock outcrops abundantly, and in places forms escarpments 3 or 4 feet high, on the slopes. On the crest of the divide is a deep reddish soil. On the Back Road, which I followed, a patch of several acres of greyish sandy soil carried a mixed grassy and woody vegetation, and Acacia sp. and other trees characteristic of rain-forest edges. On first sight, the rain-forest appears to be in a resting period, with nothing flowering or fruiting, but careful examination shows a fair sprinkling of canopy trees and lesser species with inconspicuous flowers or fruits or both. The morning's take was 18 spp., 115 sets. A slight, not unexpected, falling off in results from traps, but the catch included two specimens of a Rattus new to the collection, and last night, Van, hunting with young Dick, shot a very nice specimen of Dactylopsila. So far we have six spp. of mammals from this camp. We are doing well for fresh meat. A couple of nights ago Holland went out with truck and rifle and brought home the cut-up carcass of one of his wild cattle. Yesterday a telegraph linesman from Cape York (name of Cupid) rode in with a pack horse load of fish, caught in a trap at the