At 8 o'clock the three of us set out in the mist to follow the cut trail to the top of the mountain. Could not see a thing but the dripping trees and underbrush around us, and by the time we reached the end of my trail and followed Van's trail down into the Pandanus gully at the foot of the mountain, were pretty thoroughly wet. Decided to collect in the gully in the hope that later on the mist would lift or blow off, but at 9 o'clock rain began to fall, and we went on up the mountain. The whole of the ascent of Mt. Tozer, from 1350 ft. in the Pandanus gully to 1784 ft. on the summit, was through "turkey bush" scrub of Casuarina, etc., with here and there a sloping face of almost bare granite with low shrubs and orchids in the crevices and sundews and several species of Utricularia on little accumulations of moist sand. The turkey bush was generally about waist high, stiff-growing, and small-leaved. Collecting a few plants on the way, I reached the cairn of stones and the trig pole on top of the mountain about 10 o'clock. Geoff was there ahead of me, and had collected a small lizard from under a scaled-off slab of rock - probably the first zoological specimen to be taken on the mountain. The trig station was set up by a military survey party during the war. That party must have climbed the peak from the northwest side. Saw where brush and small trees had been cut on top, but found no trace of a camp and no cut trail. For an hour of plant hunting in mist and rain, and shins made sore by pushing through the stiff shrubbery, I found a bare half-dozen species new to the collection. Two interesting "new" shrubs were Rutaceae 19483 and a Prostanthera which looks very much like P. brassii which I discovered on Mt. Demi in 1932. A new orchid with pretty white-scented flowers and reddish fluted pseudo bulbs was plentiful on exposed rocks. Saw only 2 mosses, both sterile. The characteristic, and practically the only species of the shubberies on top of Mt. Tozer, occur in plenty within half a mile of Tozer Gap base camp, and at the same level: Casuarina, red teatree, black teatree, Agonis, red-barked Leptospermum, Grevil- lea chrysodendron, and in the undergrowth pale yellow Hibbertia, Boronia, Cladium and red-seeded Gahnia. A form of Mel. leucadendron (19477) seems identical with one found previously on the sand dunes of Newcastle Bay. Momentary breaks in the mist gave me glimpses of an area of high country to the southeast of Mt. Tozer which is shown on the military map as an extensive plateau lying at 1600-1700 ft. elevation. The high country is there, but it is a jumble of granite hills covered mainly with fire-killed turkey bush, with bits of rainforest in gullies down the west slopes. Most unattractive country, and not worth cutting trail into. Abandoning hope of a decent view and panoramic photos, we started down the moun- tain at 11:50, and ten minutes later the cloud field broke wide open, the sun shone, and we could see to the south end of the Tozer range, far out over hilly country to the west, and down to the sea. But we were too far down the mountain to see the 1600- 1700 ft. plateau of the maps. Shot black & white, and color pams before the mist closed down and the drizzle started again. At the Pandanus gully we met George and his boy Roy, looking for sites for steel traps. They had come up from Tozer Gap during the morning prepared to camp two nights. With Geoff and Willie left the 1300 foot camp around 3:30 and arrived at Tozer Gap Camp about 4:45. Unless something worthwhile turns up in the mammal line, George and his boy will return to the base on Friday, with he assistance of Geoff and Willie to carry camp gear and traps. George will make a smoke fire signal if he wants to extend his stay and in that event, more food will be sent up on Friday and his catch brought down to the base for skinning. He has with him formalin for injection of mammals caught and with that they will keep safely for a couple of days.