My drying equipment is working splendidly, the 500 c.p. lamps providing enough heat to cope with the loss due to the constant blow- ing of the trade wind during the day and part of the night. My boy now knows the routine of tending lamps and other equipment. Since our arrival here only a few spots of rain have fallen - at night. Some cloud accumulation every day. Every day the trade wind starts to blow when the sun gains strength, and as a rule dies down about sunset, but last night and the night before, when temperatures were higher than average, the wind kept up with some strength until well toward midnight. While generally the grass is very wet with dww in the morning, there was no dew on the mornings following the windy ights. Every day there is a noticeable decrease in the amount of water seeping out of the rain-forested hills and flowing down the grassy watercourses to the Laradenya. The seepage water is from the copious rains which fell all through March. Mammal results fell to 12 from traps last night, and long jacking excursions by George and Van yielded nothing. But tonight the mammal department had a very nice windfall in the sahpe of a catch of 24 bats made by the crew of the Lochiel in the old mine shafts on Possession Id. Holland brought them from the carrier station on the telegraph line, where they had been left with our missing bag of tow and tent. 21 Min- iopteris, 2 Taphyzous, and one of a genus which George cannot place (1 specimen of the same genus got on the Walter Hill Range near Millaa Millaa). Apparently our boys are pleased with their jobs. This afternoon old Moreton approached me for jobs for three of his friends. My tent is close to the boys', and I sometimes overhear their talk. According to Moreton this evening, ours is "not proper work," which means it is not hard work such as they are accustomed to doing for white men. Max. temp. 31. min. 23 C. Tuesday April 27: An uneventful day, the only noteworthy event being the shooting of a red-legged scrub wallaby by the blackboy Moreton. Nothing got by jacking last night. My 32 plant numbers represent for the most part run of the mill savanna plants which have to be collected for a definitive collection. Collected as far as Horse Plain, about 3/4 mile to the north of camp. The "plain" merely a sandy patch in the savanna forest of the Laradenya Ck. valley, carrying few trees, many tall red termite nests, and a grass cover chiefly of the annual Aristida 18419. Most of my plants taken on the banks of a seasonal-flowing feeder of the Laradenya, where a curious Eriocaulon (18474) grew almost entirely submerged in running water, and purple Utricularia 18486 occurred on wet sandy ground. Temp. Max 30, min. 20 C. Wednesday April 28: Examined a very interesting patch of "black teatree scrub" on the south side of Cody Creek, about 3 miles back along the middle road to RIP. A type of vegetation quite different from anything else in this area. The "teatrees" are a mixed lot of small-leaved Myrtaceae; the