alkaloids. Webb, with touching faith in my knowledge of the northern flora, has asked me to send him material of the species. The only Boronia I have found on the Peninsula grows here in Tozer Gap, so today I gathered plants of it which I hope will weigh 5 lbs. when dry. Sent with Geoff, for air freighting to the Museum and on to Rochester for processing, 7 kodochrome films. Have given the Kodak processing plant at Melbourne a fair trial with 35 mm. kodachromes and found them most unsatisfactory. They seem to be having trouble with their dyes. The films come back marred by scratches, violet lines and flecks, thumb- prints, and ingrained dust. Sunday, July 4: A run of outs for us. Van and Don returned to camp with only two birds to show for two days and two nights on the mountain. They had bad weather all the time, but that was not the real trouble. The trouble was a plague of white-kneed crickets which ate the bait of the traps. Apparently the mountain fairly crawled with them at night. Traps set near camp were rebaited three and four times in an evening, only to be sprung again by the crickets gathering to eat the bait. Jacking along the trails was impossible owing to mist. The boys did, however, cut trail to the summit of Mt. Tozer, and from there got a momentary glimpse of the high country to the south, which they describe as rolling ridges covered with turkey bush. Their traps were all set in rainforest and on in the turkey bush at the east slope of the range, adjacent to rainforest. No traps were set in the turkey bush where I saw all the runways. It remains to be seen whether the cricks occur in the real turkey bush country. The second bit of bad news concerned the "Wandana," or rather the cargo of ours which was supposed to be on this ship. She got to Portland Roads last night with only a few perishables, which was all the cargo the Cairns wharf-lumpers would load. The weather was wet and they would not touch general cargo. The only item on the ship for us was a crate of cabbages. I first got the news from Hector Macdonald and Le Bonne as, the weather having lifted a bit, I collected east down the road after lunch. Wee Hector was especially violent in his denunciation of the wharfies, and having let off steam, he rummaged under the tarp on the back of the truck and produced a fine orange and a tangerine from a case that had ar- rived on the ship. Late in the day Geoff arrived on the Fisher truck bound back for Wenlock, with a ham and a side of bacon, some butter, and a few odds and ends of stores bought from the ship and from Doug. Fisher's store. We have plenty of essential rations on hand. A small vessel of John Burke's, the Leisha, will bring on from Cairns the cargo which should have been on the Wandana, and is due at P.R. on Thursday. Norman Fisher and his passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Nancurves and children, and Mr. & Mrs. Uylett, stayed the night with us, contributing to the fare a pig they had shot along the road. During the afternoon high Fisher, with Constable Jerry of Coen, called in on their way to P.R. and Iron Range. Made arrangements with Fisher to transport us to Wenlock on the 22nd. For taxi hire of his 4 x 4 truck Fisher charges L.10 for the round trip Wenlock to P.R.; for loading the charge is L.7 per ton. Fisher will also take us on to Coen from Wenlock. Monday, July 5: Again postponed my trip up the mountain owing to foul weather. This is our third suc- cessive day of rain - not much rain, but enough to interfere with collecting and cause some