Mammal results from the tip of the Peninsula were below expectations. A good yield would have been 500 specimens; instead we have 307 (I wrote somewhere else that it was 375). Trapping results fell off after Lockerbie, with its numerous rat population of two species Rattus leucopus and a Melomys). Most specimens were taken in rainforest. Results from the savanna-forests were poor. At least 21 species are represented in the collection. Which is good. And further, on the good side, we have topotypic material of 12 of the 13 forms which are thought to have been named from materials collected on northern parts of the Peninsula. The early collectors were vague about collecting localities, and perhaps it will never be known precisely where some of the early collections were taken. Plant results for the Tip were 587 numbers, 3387 sets. I hoped for 650 numbers, but I consider the collection satisfactory. The great bulk of the plants are from the savanna-forests and true scrubs. I found the rain-forests poor in species, and most of the plants in them sterile. Still, a few of the smaller trees of the rain forests were about to break into flower, and a week of intensive work in the rain-forests would have paid well, I think. Time was too short for making a really definitive collection of plants from so large and varied an area of country. Saturday May 29: The Alagna, Captain Dan Cleary, got away from T.I. at 9 am sharp. Van's eye, under sulfa drug treatment, has improved enough to let him out of the doctor's hands. Joe turned up for breakfast and came on board haggard and tired, but reasonably sober. The only incident about our departure concerned one of our bicycles, which was carelessly left on the hotel porch and disappeared during the night. The loss discovered, Myrt Wriford the carrier suggested a tour of the other hotels and the missing machine, with Archbold Expedition label attached, was found in the back yard of the Bloodhouse. The Alagna is an old, English-built ship of about 700 tons, with two two-berth cabins for passengers. Besides our party, there are four white passengers on board. The overflow sleeps in officer's cabins and on the settees of the saloon. The blackboys are under an awning on No. 3 hatch. A free and easy craft, plentifully grimed and powdered with soot and coal ash. John Burke boats are good to travel on. The crew members, at least those of officer rating, are all shareholders in the company. Our course took us through Albany Pass. The old Jardine homestead at Somerset looks more dignified and impressive than at close sight. Reddish sandstone, caved by wave action, is exposed on the point of land on the mainland side of the north entrance to the pass. Similar sandstone shows on the Albany Island side of the pass. The sand dunes of Newcastle Bay look insignificant as seen from the sea. Nothing to compare in extent and height with those of Shelburne Bay and the Cape Flattery area, further south on the Peninsula. Sunday May 30: At daybreak we were opposite Fair Cape, at the north end of Weymouth Bay. Bold rocky headland of granite (?) marking the northern extremity of the "solid country" of the Peninsula. I think the observa-