citizenship so that she could get her money out of Germany. No one seemed to want the 200 quid. But after 3 weeks on the Peach and in the Rocky she married Scott. They are still together, and three offspring have come from the match. Last report is that the Scotts have set out from Hughenden in a refrigerated trailer outfit to collect in the Northern Territory - Chicago Museum and perhaps other buyers to get the mammal collections. Friday Aug. 6: All hands but the cook and I to the races. Late in the afternoon they began to scraggle back, fed up with the races and hungry hungry for food. Only Van is sticking it out and staying in for the ball tonight. Attending to plant collections and catching up with odds and ends of work, including details of our move out of to the Rocky Scrub. Feel that I might be getting the 'flu which is raging in Coen. The showery weather which has been our experience practically from the beginning on the Peninsula has caught up with us at Coen. Thin misty rain started last night, moistening the dust of the parched savannas and dripping through the leaves of the mango tree under which I sleep. Similar showers, with strong gusts of SE wind, have fallen throughout the day. Sunday, Aug. 8: In town most of yesterday on organizational chores. All arrangements made for the trip down to Cooktown and on to Shipton's Flat. High Fisher will drive us through to Laura, or, if anything should prevent him from doing the job, Cecil Wilson will take us Thompson's 3-ton truck. Norman Watkin will transport us from Cooktown south to Shipton's Flat. The plan is to leave Coen for Laura on the 26th and arrive in time to catch the weekly rail motor which leaves for Cooktown on the afternoon of the 31st August. We will travel short stages and collect between Coen and Laura (camps probably at Ebagoola, Musgrave, and Hann River). The situation in regard to work in the Rocky Scrub is not so clear. Thompson and Wilson both rushed with work in the hotel, Wilson recovering from flu, and both of them lacking in frankness and hard to nail down to anything definite. I hope we can get away for the Peach on Monday. Thompson's truck left yesterday afternoon for the Annie River to pick up loading and we cannot start until it returns. I found this out indirectly. Thompson or Wilson said nothing about it in our discussions. Last night George and Van had a remarkably successful hunt. Joe Fisher Sr. drove them about 8 miles north along the road to the airport and took his dog with him. With the help of the dog, a bandicoot (isocodon) was caught in a hollow log. Shot in trees after dark were a native cat, 6 possums and 6 ringtails. Counting pouched young, the excursion yield 18 mammal specimens. Don,, who went along, shot a pair of frogmouths and a possum or two. The race meeting has not passed with incident. Death took a lady visitor from Laura - one of a party who came up by air. The body was taken to Cairns for post mortem on the ambulance plane which has been here for the races. I saw it leave the town on a stretcher in a truck, and standing beside it a gaudily painted chocolate wheel which had been operated at the races for ambulande benefit.