sp. of that genus, and a Rhinolophus. My best plant for the day was Xanthostemon crenata, from the iron ore ridge, and a new record for Australia. I discovered the species on the Oriomo River, in Papua, in 1933. In reptiles, the day brought our first death adder (killed on the road by Pinwell of Main Roads), and a 9ft. 6 in. carpet snake, also the fourth of a series of freshwater turtles. Geoff has his lamp and in- verted cone hanging in the rain-forest for night-flying insects. Saturday June 12: Every day since we have been here has brought a little rain in light showers. Through today, the showers were heavier, but not so heavy or prolonged that one could not keep fairly dry by sheltering against tree trunks, or better still, under the upturned leafy crown of a Pandanus. Today's plants, 23 numbers in all, were from the rainforest on the north side of the bridge over Gordon's Creek. Included were three oupon trees of the canopy layer - Anonaceae 19152, Terminalia 19149, and No. 19157, the latter now conspicuous with an abundance of small white flowers. The best plant no doubt was the palm 19159, a noble species of which the only specimens I have seen are the mature tree I cut down, and two juveniles, growing along the banks of Gordon's Ck. Passed the 1000 mark in botanical collection numbers; collecting in the rainforests is slower than in the savama-forests in which up\Lib to the present most of my plants have been taken. Cutting trees takes te time and hard toil, but usually the fall of a big tree will bring down a vine or an epiphyte or two which help to swell numbers and round off the collection. Two or three more cus-cus shot today by Moreton. George and Van unable to keep ahead of skinning. Plants kept me busy until 9:45 PM; mammal preparations went on until after 11 without clearing up the back- log. Sunday June 13: With Horace Moon driving the Main Roads jeep, and Pinwell, George and I as passengers, we set out at 8 am on a trip along the Wenlock Road. With stops to collect plants and insects, and to look around, we reached One-Mile Creek, our farthest point, about noon. While Moon boiled the billy, I hunted plants, and George and Pinwell climbed a high granite hill through long grass to try for a wallaroo. A mob of 5 wallaroos frequented this hill when the roads men were doing repair work here last year. They were not there today. Perhaps they had moved to patches of burned country some miles back along the road. From Tozer Gap the road follows gaps and small valleys through hilly country in which the granite outcrops occasionally. Soils poor and sandy. Vegetation generally a savanna-forest of messmate and blood- wood with grasstree and shrubs in the undergrowth. The poorer ridges carry tall shrubberies of Agonis and other species, all called turkey bush by our companions. I had hoped to go on as far as the crossing of the Pascoe, but