Aug. 17 (Cont'd) a third time before deciding. His main reason for wanting to go back to the top of the range where there is savanna-forest as well as rainforest, is to try for ECHIMIPERA, a New Guinea bandicoot which Darlington collected for MCZ in 1932. Darlington says he got it in the Rocky Scrub. We are in the Rocky Scrub - probably near the center of it - here on Claudie Ck. Darlington camped at this same camp, and as far as I know at no other place in the Rocky. My own collecting has been progressing very well for ferns and mosses, not so well for other plants. Most rainforest plants are sterile. There is a good flora in well-developed rainforest of limited extent on flattish terraces above the creekindViewById. The slopes and crests of the terraces above the creek banks. The slopes and crests of the ridges carry poor rainforests in which scrub hickory [illegible] rainforest (Acacia) sure indicator of dryish conditions, is abundant. Have collected as many plants as I can handle from short excursions down the creek 1/4 mile yesterday; up the creek a like distance today. Wednesday, Aug. 18: Collected a poor gathering in 4½ hours on the ridge back along the trail. Con- ditions evidently too dry for full development of rainforest. Scrub hickory much inorder evidence. Long-leaved Podocarpus 19322, a common tree under improved conditions. About 300 ft. above camp (ca. 1650 ft.), and 20 minutes under the trail branches. Our camp is at the end of the southern branch. The northern branch, now pretty well- overgrown, is said to lead down to a grassy pocket, 3 miles distant - Neville Pocket - where cattle were grazed and slaughtered in the old gold mining days. A tall old mango tree, its trunk scarred by axe gashes, grows in the fork of the trails, and there are many shallow mine workings thereabouts. Geoff is having a thin time for insects. Cannot even get spiders with a lamp at night. Flying creatures are few. Weather too clear and cool perhaps. Temperature at 6:30 AM is 58-59 F. Maximum --- ? Monday Aug. 25: Back in camp at Bonanza (or is it Pinanza?) Ck., on the Peach. With Geoff and Willie, I returned here yesterday. We were the last to leave the camp at Lakeland's battery site on the Leo. George, Van and blackboy Roy, were moved back along the trail on the 19th to Campoven Pocket, about 2½ hours with packhorses. They established at (1500 ft.) on the pine fringed creek where George and I ate lunch on our recon- naissance trip on the 11th. On the 19th I collected down the creek a short distance and found the forest de- teriorating. Got only a small gathering. About as many plants as I needed, for an improvised drying frame I made of sticks and a swag cover, did not work well, and throughout my stay in the Rocky I had trouble in getting plants dried. On the 20th I made a long excursion up the creek and found there some very lux- urant forest in moist gullies and moderate slopes. Went upstream about a mile. About 1/2 mile or a little less above camp the creek forks, the main stream, which I fol- lowed, coming from the lefthand side (east or coastal side). Within 1/4 mile, above a deep rock pool, is a waterfall about 30-40 ft. high. As far as I went, gum-barked Tristania ? (first met with on the West Claudie River), fringes the creek, its big grey trunk, and scrolled bark, giving it the appearance of a eucalypt.