2:45: Left on return to Tozer Gap Camp. Collected on way down. George did a good job in opening the route to the high parts of the range. My cutting brought us within east distance of Mt. Tozer. I also found abundant mammal signs, in the form of runways, in the dense turkey bush of the 1500 ft. bench. Both rainforest and turkey bush environments can be worked from the camp site chosen by George. Next we have to cut a trail from the 1500 ft. bench to the 1600 ft. crest of the rim ridge to the south, extending south from which the military air-survey map shows a rather extensive tract of country lying at 1600 to 1700 ft. Pinwell drove up from Iron Range in his jeep and stayed the night. Friday, July 2: Van and Don, with packs weighing about 50 pounds, left at 8 am to start work at the 1300 ft. camp on the range. Van had in his pack mouse traps, rat traps and steel traps. They will camp two nights and return Sunday morning, when I will go up to the top camp. Van will cut trail to the summit of Mt. Tozer and report on what he sees to the south of the 1600 ft. rim ridge. A bad turn in the weather. Mist on the range most of the morning, weather very sultry down at this level, raining tonight. Finished work on specimens on hand and about the middle of the afternoon followed a trapping trail to the shallow rocky gorge of the West Claudie (Mishar Ck. of the old mars) about 1/2 mile NE of camp. Struck the gorge at the foot of a 60-80 ft. cascade, above which is a deep waterhole shaded by overhanging trees. Cypress pine (Callitris 19407) abundant on the sides of the gorge, in xerophytic tree growths in which the red-barked Leptospermum is the principal species. Callistemon occurs on rocky floodbanks. Back from the edge of the gorge the vegetation is rainforest. Sat. July 3: Mist clouds covering the top of the Tozer Range most of the day, coming from the SF. Light showers at this camp, getting heavier toward dark. Day completely overcast. And this the dry season in sunny North Queensland! The weather must be severely hampering Van and Don at the 1300 ft. camp. Apparently it is general, for the people on a truck coming through from Wenlock to meet the boat at Portland Roads reported scuds of rain at Wenlock last night and along the road this morning. The road busy today with the passage of two trucks going to Portland Roads. The first arrived soon after breakfast, after a night stop at Brown's Ck., with gold prospectors Le Bonne and Macdonald, and Mrs. Macdonald on board. Mrs. M. is going south for a holiday after two years at Wenlock. Of "ee Hector" Macdonald it is said he is so thrifty that when feeding the chickens he chases the rooster away because he is "non-productive." Le Bonne owns a boring plant with which he is about to start prospecting for gold at Wenlock - 4 inch percussion drill and sandgump. No boring has as yet been done on the field. The second truck, driven by one of the Fisher boys, with two of their "Black Cat" mine employees and their wives and children on board for a vacation ride to the coast, arrived about noon and I met it on the road where I was collecting 1/2 mile to the west of camp. Geoff, with a carton of herbarium material in his charge, left on the Fisher truck to attend to incoming stores at Portland Roads. An accumulation of undried specimens kept me in camp most of the morning. Later I went west to a patch of Agonis scrub in the Gap to do general collecting, and get Hibbertia material for anatomical study by Prof. Bailey of Harvard, and gather a quantity of Boronia sp. for analysis by Webb of the CSIR. Spot testing by Webb in the Queensland Herbarium of B. alulata from the Dulhunty River shows it a very promising plant for