Thursday, July 22: The Main Roads truck turned up at our Brown's Ck. camp about 12:30 on the 19th and the trip back to our old quarters at Iron Range was done in about 2¼ hours. The road through the rainforest was slippery with rain and in one place almost closed by the rootings of pigs, and twice in the rainforest all hands had to jump off the truck and push. The moist coolness of the rainforest as we drove through was pleasant after the harsher touch of the air at Brown's Creek, on the dry side of the range. For two days I have been packing specimens, sorting stores, and catching up with arrears in correspondence. Today we have sent to Portland Roads for shipment to Cairns 29 boxes and packages, some of them containing surplus supplies which will be trans- shipped to Cooktown. The mail, in this morning by the plane, running a day late, brought news that we have bookings for return to the U.S., from Brisbane or Sydney direct to New York, on the "Pioneer Star." Marie, who has been scouting around in Brisbane, had also secured bookings on the mail boat "Aorangi," sailing from Sydney to Vancouver on Oct. 21, but the cost of going by that route would be 7 to 8 hundred dollars more than direct to New York, and we have to consider that. The "Pioneer Star" is expected to sail from Brisbane or Sydney about the middle of October. We are closing for bookings on her. When we were working this Iron Range locality systematically with large numbers of traps, mammals were by no means easy to come by. Having some time on his hands during this short visit, George has set a few steel traps and in two nights seven specimens have been taken. And, surprisingly, no less than three spiny anteaters have been picked up here and there. Apparently this is a walkabout time for spiny anteaters. George found one this morning, dug in beside one of his steel traps. The trap had been sprung, seemingly by the beast, which must have got a scare and dug himself a hole to hide in. Hugh Fisher has sent word by wire that he cannot be here before tonight or early tomorrow morning for the move to Wenlock. Friday, July 23: And still at Iron Range. By unofficial telephone - a field phone hooked onto the line by Connell, who lives in the other end of the old army buildings we are camped in - we learn that Hugh Fisher's truck has broken down in Coen and that his brother Norman is leaving Wenlock this afternoon to pick us up. That will mean we leave here tomorrow morning, if Norman arrives. Another day lost. Judging from our experience on this trip, with strikes and other transport delays, one should allow 25% extra time for any job of work planned in this country. The day, however, was not entirely lost to me. Spent several hours in the rain- forests and collected nine spp. of plants, including 7 new to the collection. A sprinkling of forest trees has come into flower since we moved out of here three weeks ago, and flowers of other spp. will be opening soon. We learn over the phone that Van is doing well with kangaroos, etc. at Wenlock. Sat. July 24: The truck from Wenlock with Norman Fisher and Arthur Ullet on board, and towing a trailer, arrived after 11 o'clock last night. This morning the alarm was set for 4:30, breakfast was over and we had everything loaded before daylight. at 6:20 we moved off in the grey dawn bound for Wenlock. Driving too fast for the road, Norman had us at Brown's Creek in 2¼ hours, where we loaded the gear left there, took down the covering fly, and were on the road again by 10 o'clock. Reached the crossing of the Pascoe River about 11:30, where we stopped to boil the billy. We felt like eating a good lunch, but found that the cook, who had