This has been a remarkable day in more ways than one. While we were sitting on our boxes grousing and reading old magazines this morning, Malcolm Holmes' cat stalked in with the second bandicoot we have seen in this district, and our 900th mammal specimen. When Ned Pinwell drove up he brought a specimen of the rare Dobsinia fruit-bat...I think the third or fourth specimen taken in Australia. The truck coming from Portland Roads brought another bandicoot from old Ted Densley who lives on Packer's Creek. All in all, a very good day. Monday, June 28: A day of varied activity - can making, collecting, and exploration. The three boys were on camp jobs all day. Making drying racks for mammal specimens trays, cutting the grass from under tents and flys, making a dining table of split palm (Geoff forgot to bring a door which Joe had scrouged for a table), building a stage to keep the foodstuffs well above the camp ground, and, under the joint supervision of Geoff and Don, making a pit latrine and erecting over it a most remarkable shelter of fan-palm leaves. The pride of the architects of the latter feature is in no way dampened by the fact that the roof leaks - they made it flat, without a pitch to carry off water. The night exploration was done by George and Van. Van climbed most of the way up a 1000-foot outlying granite peak of Mt. Tozer, which rises boldly im-bo- diately to the west of camp, and looks much higher than the elevation given on the map. George bypassed the outlying peak and cut trail up to about 800 ft. on the main ridge of the Tozer Range, striking for Mt. Tozer itself. An excellent start in the work that lies ahead of us in getting at the high country of the range. The 40 traps last night caught one Cminthopsis, a Rattus and a grassland Melomys, similar to those taken at Iron Range. A bandicoot, flushed from the cover of a log, was slain by old Moreton with a tomahawk. Bandicoots always come to us by extraordinary means - we have not learned how to trap them. Nothing of particular note in 10 spp. of plants collected near camp by me. Tozer Gap's other name is Windy Gap, and very appropriately so. Very strong south- easter today, and heavy showers from about four o'clock into the evening. Temperature this morning at grey dawn was 64 F. Tuesday, June 29: Spent the day on the 1000-foot granite outlier of the Tozer Range. It is actually the northern termination of the range, dropping as it does, into Tozer Gap. The continuation of the range north of Tozer Gap is called Janet Range on the maps. Put my plants on to dry, in charge of the cook, and left camp at 8 o'clock with Willie carrying a fresh-cooked lunch of puffedlooneyes in the plant bag. The cool nights have played up with Joe's yeast dough. Got back to camp at 3:15, the day being spent without water. By following a leading spur from the east, and sidling around the side of the stark granite bluff which forms the highest point on the mountain, we got to the top, with some plants in the bag, in less than an hour and a half. Made the summit 1025 feet by aneroid. A grand view from the summit, taking in all the country from the coast of Weymouth Bay to the north end of the Macrossan Range, and close by to the south and southwest the high country of the Tozer Range which we plan to get into to collect. I climbed the granite outlier (unnamed) today chiefly to get a panoramic view of the high country into which George is cutting trail on a compass course based on the military map. George could have avoided some very rough going by taking the time to look