July 6 & 7: Trip to Mt. Tozer Leaving plants to dry in care of the cook, Willie and I left Tozer Gap Camp at 8:40 on the 6th with packs weighing between 25 and 30 lbs. Geoff, waiting for bread to cook, left about an hour later. Mist on the range top in early morning, followed by a rainless partly cloudy day. First day without rain since the 2nd. At 10:15 Willie and I arrived at the camp on Tozer Range. Alt. by aneroid 1230 ft. (300 ft. at Tozer Gap Camp). Trail a bit slippery in the rainforest; good elsewhere. Moisture rising from the ground formed into patches of fog in the rainforest on top of the range. Saturated dead sticks falling from the trees in surprising numbers. Found that Van and Don had made a good job of making camp. Fly well rigged, beds of treefern fronds, pata-patas to keep stores above ground, and a good stock of dry wood under cover. But bedding left hanging from the ridgepole was damp and stinking, and Van's sleeping bag, which was to be my bed, was whiskery with grey mould. In order to ease the transport problem, bedding and cooking gear had been left by the first party to collect on the range. Had lunch before starting to collect in the rainforests of the gullies and ridges within east distance of the camp. Forest poor in species and the only big tree is appar- ently a species of Xanthostemon with soft brownish bark and a trunk up to about 2 ft. in diameter. The tallest of these scattered big trees only about 60 ft. high. Prominent among the smaller trees that make up the bulk of the forest is a long-leaved Podocarpus (19458); the undergrowth, entirely woody except for a Dianella and a few ferns, is largely Eurh orb. 19462. On wet granite boulders in a gully I found the smallest fern I have ever come across - Hymenophyllaceae 19460, with simple leaves looking like little green fish scales, and only 4 to 5 mm. long. Only a small amount of moss on the grees, and none on the ground. The one touch of luxuriance is supplied by a slender treefern (collected on my first visit) which abounds in the gullies. At 4:30 when I returned to camp, the aneroid stood at 1300 ft. Built a good fire with logs brought in by Willie and hung the bedding near it before I started out to set a few of the 100-odd mammal traps left by Van. Had noticed a good site for the steel trap under a rock, and I also put out several rat traps, baited with corned beef and bits of a cake that Joe had baked. I expected the mountain to be crawling with crickets, as it was when Van and Don were there a few days earlier. There were a few chirpings about 6 o'clock, but no crickets appeared in camp, or came to Geoff's bug- trap, hung under a lamp about fifty yards off in the forest. Put out 10 more traps, close around camp, to see what would happen to the bait. Found in the morning that all traps but one had been de-baited, but not one trap was sprung by cricket or mammal. The traps, I might say, were badly rusted, and hard to spring. By hunting along the trail with a headlamp, Geoff collected several spiders seemingly different from species taken at Tozer Gap Camp, 1000 ft. below. A few micros and some larger moths were taken at the trap lamp. I took a walk with gun and lamp looking for mammals. Not a mammal, or a cricket, was seen by either of us. Tozer Range is no paradise for a biologist. At daybreak I awoke to find Willie asleep by the fire outside the fly, and water dripping off the leaves from mist driving through the treetops. Took up traps while Geoff cooked breakfast, that is, boiled the tea billy and opened a can of corned beef. Was sorry I had not gone on yesterday and climbed Mt. Tozer, but I thought then we were in for a spell of good weather, and I guessed wrong.