Nancurviss and Wilson lunchcd with us today on their way home. They brought news that our supplies had arrived at F.R., and that the Main Roads truck would be here this evening to take us back to Iron Range tomorrow. But the road through the mainforests was very wet and slippery and the truck has not arrived. There is also a phone message from Hugh Fisher to the effect that he has been delayed south of Coen and cannot be at Iron Range to pick us up until the 23rd - one day late. Sent Van on to Wenlock with Moreton to start collecting while we are at Iron Range packing specimens for shipment and reorganizing. The Brown's Creek country has yielded good collections of plants from the moist creek banks. Some very interesting plants occur in the messmate and messmate-bloodwood savanna forests, and a big quaking bog, several acres in area has added variety, and one or two surprises to the collection. One remarkable bog plant is a sedge (aff. Cladium) with rigid thick needle-tipped leaves about 2 feet long which are a positive danger to one's eyes when stooping to dig up the little bladderworts and sundews and eriocalyons which abound in the bog. Growing in the bog I found two species of orchids (19561 and 19646) which dubtless are epiphytes come down to live on the ground, and I think New Guinea epiphytes at that. They look like mountain orchids of the New Guinea mossy forests. The "turkey bush," from which I expected numbers of new things for the collection, was disappointing. Only small patches of it, on bluffs and rocky spots too bare to carry fire, have not been burnt over, as recently perhaps as last year. Agonis and accompanying minor dominants have grown tall shoots - head high or more - from the base, but most of the smaller plants, if many exist in this community, have disappeared for the time being. Most of the twigs have fallen from the fire-damaged shrubs, and their stems can be pushed over with one foot. I should like to have seen this bit of country before our friend Jack Gordon prospected through it last year. Burning of the country by prospectors is regular procedure. The fires leave the ground bare and expose any rock that may be outcropping. It also makes travel easy through the turkey bush, until the next man comes along and has the dead sticks as well as the vigorous regrowths to contend with.