For three consecutive days I have had no rain. Temperature fell to 58 F. this morning, and those who thought back in New York that three blankets would be enough for the tropics are sorry now. There is a nip in the air this evening, and I have provided spare canvas load-covers to the blackboys to help keep out the cold. 58 F Inc. for a rain forest area 50 ft. above sea level and about 12 degrees below the equator, is quite a low temperature. Sunday, June 20: Geoff and George, the two-blend men, turned in last night fully clothed and with sweaters, and Geoff in his raincoat. Their third blanket I find today is in Cairns. Temperature low this morning was 58 F. Clouds are building up toward the op coast and this evening is warmer. This Sunday's trip in Pinwell's jeep was along the main road as far as Dirty- water Creek, 10 miles toward Portland Roads. A good bag of plants, mainly from the eed gully rainforests. The best species were probably a fanp plain (Liceule or Livistone 19267) and Malanophore 19268. The latter, a root parasite, grew in plenty on leaf littered ground below floodmark in the forest edging Dirtywater Creek. The flowers edis not have the mouse-like smell of a species which occurs in New Guinea. Another good plant, unfortunately sterile, was Manilton, a New Guinea genus first recorded for Australia from a collection made by Flecker at Iron Range in 1944. At this time of year pink young foliage hangs from its big terminal leaf (and branch) buds, and I have seen it at Iron Range as well as in the locality where I collected it today. Have decided, in conference to move from here a week from tomorrow and establish camp at Tozer Cap, in the mountains about 8 miles to the west. In the interim, sub- sidiary camps for mammal collecting will be worked at Iron Range air-drome, 6 miles oFloat the south, and at the south end of Iron Range, about 4 miles to the southeast. The remainder of my time here will be spent in the rainforests, which yield few plants for a morning's work, but always something good. Provisionally, we plan to spend 2 weeks at Tozer Cap and 1 week at Brown's Ck, 12 miles farther west. From there we will come back to Iron Range to pack specimens and reorganize before going on to Weilock and Coen. We should arrive at Coen about July 28, and at Cooktown about the end of August. Allowing 6 weeks for work in the Cooktown area, and getting to Cairsn from there, our total time in the field will be just six months. Tuesday, June 22: Yesterday spent in camp, preparing Sunday's collection and packing dry material. The two Coleman pressure lamps which I have used constantly for drying plants for the past two months are beginning to show the strain. Have a good stock of spare genera- tors but find that the spanner supplied with the lamps will not unscrew the generator lock nut. The spanners slip around the nut when pressure is applied. Back in the Iron Range rainforests today, and by exe work, collected some good species, of which Omphalea 19291 is perhaps the best. This large liana, frequent in the rainforests, is easily found by the big soft orange fruits that fall to the ground. It looks very different from O. queenslandiae, found in the Cairns district and producer of a large seed edible when cooked. Yesterday afternoon George was driven by Barry Fisher to the Scarlet Pimpernel mine (long abandoned) on the South end where, according to Mrs. Fisher, a fat-tailed mouse occurs. Set out 80 mouse traps, camped on the floor of the truck, and returned empty handed this morning.