4. To Alexander from John W. Mellor, 11 Mellor Park, Lockleys, Adelaide, 8 May, 1919, asking if he is personally be willing to assist in the Oology, clutches, of W.A. birds' eggs exchanges. 1 p.
5. From Alexander to J. W. Mellor, 11 Mellor Park, Lockleys, Adelaide, 28 May, 1919, regret have few duplicates to exchange, enclose lists of clutches available. 2 p.
6. From Alexander to H. K. Coale, Highland Park, Illinois, U.S.A., 18 June, 1919, after 3 years absence answering letter to arrange exchanges of skins of Australian birds and some skins from other countries. 2 p.
7. To Alexander from John W. Mellor, 11 Mellor Park, Lockleys, Adelaide, 10 July, 1919, list of birds' eggs sent . 2 p.
8. From Alexander to J. W. Mellor, 11 Mellor Park, Lockleys, Adelaide, 17 July, 1919, received clutches of eggs, only 7 species were on wanted list, sending exchanges, 14 species not needed for W. A., other egg clutches already held. 3 p.
9. From J. F. Illingworth, Division of Entomology, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Queensland, 25 July, 1919, letter offering insects occurring in North Queensland agricultural areas collected as pests of sugar cane. 1 p.
10. To H. A. Longman, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 22 July, 1919, 22 July, 1919, offering specimens of Myrmecobius and Tarsipes, asking for Hypsiprymnodon and any species of Phalanger, also any New Guinea material. 2 p.
11. To Alexander from John W. Mellor, Mellor Park, Lockleys, Adelaide, 26 July, 1919, included desiderata on "locality" list, send any common W. A. species. 1 p.
 12. From Alexander to J. F. Illingworth, Division of Entomology, Bureau of Sugar Expt. Stations, Meringa, Cairns, 13 August, 1919, thanks for offer of common insects of Queensland to compare with W. A., gladly pay postage. 1 p.
13. From Alexander to J. W. Mellor, 11 Mellor Park, Lockleys, Adelaide, 9 September, 1919, keeping 16 clutches, sending back 7, list of birds' eggs sent. 2 p.
14. To Alexander from J. A. Illingworth, Division of Entomology, Bureau of Sugar Expt. Stations, Meringa, Qld., 15 September, 1919, sending box of insects, listed, if wanted, mark list, interested in cockroaches and muscoid flies. 1 p.
15. To Alexander from A. Jefferies Turner, Wickham Terrace, Brisbane, 15 September, 1919, on return was unable to visit W.A., then heard you were back at Museum, remembering Lepidoptera, tell me of a likely Lepidoptera W.A. collector. 1 p.
16. List of insects sent, Sept. 15, 1919, to Dept. of Agriculture, Victoria, N.S.W., Museum Sydney, South Australia, West Australia, Melbourne. 1 p. 
17. From C.S.G. Shaw, Public School, Goolagong, New South Wales, 29 September, 1919, school museum wants specimens of weapons and implements of the natives of W.A., offering a collection of U.S.A. gem stones, sent by post. 1 p
18. To Alexander from H. B. Coale, Birds of the World, Highland Park, Illinois, 3 October, 1919, sending a box of birds from Japan, would be glad to get any extras, esp. from list in The Emu. 1 p.
19. List of Birds sent to H.K.Coale Highland Park, Illinois, Second Collection, 1919. 3 p.
20. From Oswald Lower, Bartley Crescent, Wayville, S. A., 9 October, 1919, asking about a new species of Angelia,, held in W.A. Museum, same as his Lithopepla from Dundas, W.A., also seeking a WA Lepidopterist for exchanges. 1 p.
21. To C. H. Shaw, Public School, Goolagong, N.S.W., 7 October, 1919, Mr. Glauert still on leave, delaying exchanges of gemstones for native weapons, will send reply. 1 p.
22. To Alexander from C. L. E. Orton, Petworth Park, Moora, W.A., 12 October, 1919, regret missing trip, will send specimens in few days. 1 p.
23. To O. Lower, Bartley Crescent, Wayville, S. A. , 10 October, 1919, regret few collectors of specimens of Lepidoptera in W. A. except Mr. Newman, not many in Museum collection. 1 p.
24. To J. F. Illingworth, Division of Entomology, Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations, Meringa, Cairns, Qld, 13 October, 1919, received box of insects, sending back in box a series of W. A. Cockroaches and list of W.A. Orthoptera. 2 p.
25. To Alexander from J. F. Illingworth, Division of Entomology, Meringa, Cairns, Qld., 31 October, 1919, received very interesting specimens of roaches (although broken in transit) trusting you can supply W.A. specimens in spirit. 1 p.
26. To Director, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 3 November, 1919, received letter and 3 skins very pleased to have, in return sending 7 W.A. specimens, hoping you send us 4 other species in exchange, list of Queensland marsupials desired, also sending specimens for you to examine but we need them back as we have hardly any specimens of Notomys. 4 p.
27. To Alexander from C. L. E. Orton, Petworth Park, Moora, 15 November, 1919, 3 weeks of flu, but will send clutches of Little Falcon and Little Eagle, offer of Melanosterna. 1 p.
28. To C. L. E. Orton , Petworth Park, Moora, 13 November, 1919, have eggs of Melanosterna anaetheta to send you. 1 p.
29. To Alexander from Ronald Trickett, Riverdale, Coolup, W.A., 3 November, 1919, sending eggs from Britain. 1 p.
30. From Alexander to Ronald Trickett, Riverdale, Coolup, W.A., 21 November, 1919, thanks for British eggs, sending eggs from R.A.O.U. checklist of W.A. birds. 1 p.
31. From Alexander to H.K. Coale, Highland Park, Illinois, 21 November, 1919, sent birds in exchange, separate cover reprints of all papers on Australian birds by R.A.O.U. v. conservative, so sending names given by Mathews as well. 1 p.
32. From Alexander to O. Lower, Bartley Crescent, Wayville, S.A.,24 November, 1919, regret unwilling to send moth Angelis melancroca by post as insects get broken, would send by personal charge in box. 1 p.
33. To Alexander from Helen A. Longman, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 9 December, 1919, received specimens. 1 p.
34. From Alexander to C. E. L. Orton, Moora, 12 December, 1919, sending eggs of M. anaetheta, from Bird Island, Safety Bay, Garden Island, single birds eggs, also clutch of Entomophila leucomelas, pleased to get sets sent. 2 p.
35. To Alexander from C. E. L. Orton, Petworth Park, Moora, 22 December, 1919, thanking for eggs received. 2 p.
36. From Frederic Wood Jones, University of Adelaide, 6 January, 1920, asking for details of marsupials of Western Australia especially Myrmecobius fasciatus, or to borrow one pickled. 3 p.
37. From Alexander to F. Wood Jones, Adelaide University, 13 January, 1920, v. willing to help but Myrmecobius are rarely seen or caught alive in good condition, also Tarsipes, also fairly common marsupials Dromicia concina and Sminthopsis murina specimens, suggest advertising. 3 p.
38. To Glauert from C. E. Shepherd, 26 Stanhope Gardens, London,S.W.7, 16 January, 1920, asking if otoliths sent had been received after 4 months as a registered parcel. W.B.A.:Glauert not yet back. 2 p. 
39. To Alexander from John W. Mellors, Mellor Park, Locksley, S.A., 24 January, 1920, regret delays in letters due to death in family, missed nesting season on Kangaroo Id., hoping to visit W.A. with R.A.O.U. research. 2 p.
40. To Alexander from F. Wood Jones, The University, Adelaide, 29 January, 1920, would like access to a Dromicia concinna and Sminthopsis murina, alive or dead, Tarsipes in any condition. 2 p.
41. From Alexander to H. K. Coale, Highland Park, Illinois, 13 February, 1920, box of 53 skins of birds sent had broken open but as no list included can't tell if any lost, includes a list of names from Sharpe's list indebted for 3 birds. 2 p.
42. To Alexander [on leave] from William I. Souther, Groton, Mass., U.S.A., 16 February, 1920, letter offering to sell and buy collections of shells listed. 4 p.
43. To C. L. Shepherd, 26 Stanhope Gardens. London, 2 March, 1920, your letter, box of otoliths received by Glauert. 1 p.
44. From Alexander to F. Wood Jones, Adelaide University, 4 March, 1920, list of young or embryonic specimens  (q v)sent, only 3 species adults are Sminthopsis murina, Tarsipes spenserae and Dromicia concinna in exchange we would like copies of your zoological books ; I recently saw a distant Myrmecobius' burrow, at P. Wickham, Kyrup, Laurier. 3 p. 
45. To Alexander from F. Wood Jones, Adelaide University, 9 March, 1920, thanking for cooperation and help. 2 p.
46. To F. Wood Jones, Adelaide University, 15 March, 1920, Alexander,on leave, left parcel to be sent to you. 1 p.
47. From F. Wood Jones to James C. Batty, 30 March, 1920, unpacked case of anatomical material arrived safely. 1 p.
48. From Ronald Trickett, Grassmere, Coolup, 19 June, 1920, sent sets of W. A. birds' eggs. 1 p.
49. To Alexander from Henry K. Coale, Highland Park, Illinois, 27 July, 1920, sending details in time for your return. 1 p.
50. From C. L. Shepherd, 26 Stanhope Gardens, London, 31 July, 1920, hoping to receive fish heads and specimens of Arripus trutta, Arripis georgiamus, Kyphosus sydneyanus, market specimens. 3 p.
51. To Alexander from Henry K. Coale, Highland Park, Illinois, 19 August, 1920, sending box of birds, some quite rare, if they are not good enough don't count them. 1 p.
52. To Ronald Trickett, Grassmere, Coolup, 11 September, 1920, received eggs. 1 p.
53. rom Glauert to F. Wood-Jones, University, Adelaide, 13 September, 1920, thank you for reprints of papers, work on Myrmecobius. 2 p.
54. To J. Battye from Henry K. Coale, Highland Park, Illinois, offering skins of Japanese birds, asking for stamps. 1 p.
55. To Glauert from F. Wood Jones, Adelaide University, 22 September, 1920, contented with Myrmecobius, specimens opened by incision in belly, preserved in spirit, also any small marsupials, external characteristics of pouch embryos. 3 p.
56. To Alexander from Heber A. Longman, Queensland Museum, 22 September, 1920, sending specimens of Phalangers: Petaurus sciureus, Petauroides volans, Hypsiprymnodon moschatus in exchange skins of Myrmecobius and Tarsipes. 1 p.
57. From A. J. Williamson, Bank of Victoria, Dunolly, 23 March, 1920, asking for specimens of rocks. 1 p. 
To Alexander from A. J. Williamson, Bank of Victoria, Dunolly, 29 September, 1920, reminding about specimen. 1 p.
58. From Glauert to C. Foster Cooper, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, 7 October, 1920, as specimens of crustacea offered by Stanley Gardiner's expeditions to islands of Indian Ocean and a Dormouse for mounting would be welcome packed in a tin-lined box via Agent General for Western Australia, Savoy House, Strand, London. 1 p.
59. From Glauert to Dr. W. Eagle Clark, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, 7 October, 1920, an exchange of Australian mammals would be exchanged for birds from the Scottish National Antarctic Expeditions which sometimes come here in the winter months. 1 p.
60. From Glauert to A. J. Williamson, Bank of Victoria, Dunolly, 7 October, 1920, regret that the minerals you asked for are not available for exchange, state the nature of your collection we will try to send suitable specimens in return. 1 p.
61. From Glauert to F. Wood Jones, Adelaide University, 7 October, 1920, procuring Myrmecobius and other small marsupials, but much of pouch material is old, after you finish Trichosurus I will try. 1 p.
62. From Glauert to C. E., Shepherd, 26 Stanhope Gardens. London, 11 October, 1920, Mr. Alexander on leave, the otoliths are gratefullyv acknowledged, 2 Monocentris from Albany sent with any desiderata, Govt. trawler wrecked. 1 p.
63. From Glauert to W. N. Souther, Groton, Mass., U,S.A., 12 October, 1920, as Alexander was on leave and then resigned, the Trustees say that unable to enter into exchanges of conchological specimens yet but will, notify. 1 p.
64. To Glauert from A. J. Williamson, Bank of Victoria, Dunolly,14 October, 1920, seeking a spearhead chipped out of telegraph insulator or Roscoelite. 2 p.
65. To Glauert from L. E. Orton, Petworth Park, Moora,1 November, 1920, show sent skin of Bush Wallaby to Mr. Le Souef and a bird Charadru, also bird collections. 1 p.
66. To L. E. Orton, Petworth Park, Moora, 1 November, 1920, Need skull to identify kangaroo skin, bird sent a Sharp- tailed Stint, Pisobia acuminata. 1 p.
67. From Glauert to Ronald Trickett, Riverdale, Coolup, 1 November, 1920, sending series of eggs in exchange for those sent 62. Eudyptula minor, Forster, 130. Zonjfer, pectoralis, 223. Phalacrocorax melanoleucus, 238 Sula fusca Brisson, 352 Merops ornatus, Lath. 361. Cuculus pallidus, 575. Grallina picata, R.A.O.U. 1 p.
68. To Glauert from John W. Mellor, Mellor Park, Lockleys, Adelaide S. H., 2 November, 1920, after a month in W.A. working the Malurus family of Wrens leuconotus and leucopterus, Stirling Ranges, Dirk Hartog and Barrow Islands. 2 p.
69. From Glauert to A. J. Williamson, Bank of Victoria, Dunolly, 11 November, 1920, sending spear head made out of a telegraph insulator fro Hall's Creek, an abandoned goldfield. 1 p.
70. To Glauert from L. E. Orton, Petworth Park, Moora, 16 November, 1920, sending clutches of eggs, sending skin with skull gift, wants an egg of Lesser Noddy also Wedgebill (Spenostoma). 1 p. 68.
71. To Glauert from A. J. Williamson, Bank of Victoria, Dunolly, Vic.9 December, 1920, received spearhead, would like one made like porcelain, can send quartz crystal with molybdenite. 1 p.
72. from Glauert to A.J. Williamson, Bank of Victoria, Dunolly, 17 December, 1920, we have not got the spearhead you want, if any comes in we will save it for you. 1  p.
73. From Glauert to L. E. Orton, Petworth Park, Moora, 10 December, 1920, at R.A.O.U. you said the Little Eagle was seen in your locality, also heard of a Red-necked Avocet was seen inyour locality, try and get some for the museum. 1 p.
74. To J. W. Mellor, Mellor Park, Locksley, Adelaide, 17 December, 1920, there are no skins of Malurus available for exchange, the large series of skins not as plentiful as believed, but borrow them for research. 1 p.
75. From Darwin L. Platt, Osteologist and Anatomist, 17 East Main St., Rochester, N. Y., 18 December, 1920, wants skulls of Aboriginals, also animal skulls. 1 p.
76.To Glauert from L. E. Orton, Petworth Park, Moora, 26 December, 1920, a mob of avocets were seen on his swamp but have now disappeared. 1 p. ...

> 25th Oct.
Up at 0500 in order to catch the early ANA flight to Brisbane. Unfortunately this was also delayed. Another passenger also flying for Perth (Mr. Hedges) and I decided to make a fuss after being told that we could not get off until after 11.00 hrs. We got TAA to put us onto the 9.30 flight. We then arrived in Brisbane at 11.30. Hedges is for the Territory - recruiting in W.A. and other states He has recruited Colin Daley who has given my name as a referee.

Met at Brisbane by Alan Bartholomai. He was in good form, doing good work. He has had the very large series of specimens collected by Tom Kirkpatrick & has concluded, as we have, that coefficients of variation are really very low in natural populations of macropodidae. (c.2.). He is also doing some very nice work relating a lot of the Queensland [de lls?] species to the modern Fauna. Had a good talk to Jack Woods. After lunch drove out to the University and saw Connell the Registrar, and Drake the Public Relations and Alumni Officer. He gave me very interesting data on the Convocation wrine[?]. He said:(a) Their convocation could not join the Australian Federation of University grads[?] because of their statutary position.(b) Their Alumni Association (Alumni=past students, staff and senate & convocation) is funded for the express purposes of having a free voice, & for fund raising. (c) That the association cannot pay its way for at least 3 years.(d) It now takes up about 60% of his time plus that of ancillary staff.

Couldn't go down to Fleay's sanctuary[?]. Hopeless in a half day. Had a further session with Jack & Alan over the specimens they had been going through in connection with my list of rare species. Asked for the loan of a few specs.. To the Hotel early, went out and bought tea. Wrote to M. and to the V. C. To bed early.

> 26th Oct.
An excellent flight up to Port Moresby. First sight of New Guinea is the land bank of cloud lying WestEast along the line of the Papuan coast. Started to come down from 30,000 ft and could see the line of the Owen Stanleys lying above the clouds. Turned in towards Port Moresby (Photographs in colour). Very struck by the similarity between the savannah around Moresby and that of Kalumburu. Seems very likely that the Trunsina[?] savannah fauna is in fact an Australian form which has got across[?].

Landed and met by Sir Alan Mann, John Wamersley and Roy McKay. Sir Alan was in his official Rover 3 litre - v. nice! They installed me in the Gateway Hotel - an airconditioned, very humid and quite warm in Moresby - and we then had lunch.

After lunch we went for advice[?] around to see the Museum site in June[?] Valley and then to the University to meet Ken Inglis, Prof of History, a trustee and acting V.C., Ken Lamb Prof of Zoology, and also ran into Don Drover Ex. W.A., Prof of Chemistry. Had a brief talk to them and then arranged to come back next Wednesday. Called a Trustees' meeting for 10.00 next morning.

Drove out to the C-J's house met Lady Mann (Yvonne) asked for driver[?]. Then drove out to Govt. House to meet the Administrator, David Hay & wife for drinks. Started well - he was wearing a BNC tie ! then moved on to Ett and LTR. From then on very easy. He told me that he had now categorized me !! He added "very favorably" how lucky Old School ties are still worn - I have seldom felt quite so dishonest but if his aim is to get off the ground all tactics must work.

Had dinner with the Manns. Very hectic and endless bottles of good wine. To bed but not to sleep easily. Hope this pace does not continue.

> 27th Thursday
Worked in my room until 08.30 when Roy Mckay called. Then down to the Post Office where I sent a cable to Lyn to ask for Judy Buick's address in the Territory in the hope that her husband would be near Moresby and able to help the women[?] with class programmes etc. He used to be one of our casual teachers in the W.A.M. Sent a telegram to M. to tell her arrived safely.

10.00 meeting of the Trustees at the Museum. The Museum is depressing[?]. Beautiful stuff but not a great deal of it. Very poorly displayed, and stored on worse fashion. Specimens[?] are destroying each other. Labels poor and falling off. Trustees are doing their best but not succeeding because they are combining two functions of policy and managed to the detriment of both. Roy McKay is not pulling his weight. He is spending too much of his time on things that he is not trained to do - such as writing articles for the Press etc. and the actual physical things that need doing are not being done. Money is being spent on all sorts of things that give a poor return (such as fieldwork by McKay and visitors) and nothing in the storage of collections which are priceless. Talked to the trustees about the function of museums. ....

In the afternoon drove out to see the Administrator with the C.J., talked to him about the terms of reference. I told him that the Trustees were a statutory body charged with the care of Museum and of looking after the interests of the public in this respect but it would not be possible for me to dictate policy - however, I would do my best to open up possible lines of policy for the Trustees to decide upon and then, when that was done, to produce a plan as to how that would be done. He warned me about flying too high - he also asked whether there would be any possibility of including a native member or two in the Trustees. Both the C-J and I concluded that this would not be satisfactory at this stage -- wait until the Trust. is a policy-making body & their time will come. The C-J is very keen to expand the whole thing to make a sort of National Trust out of the whole, with Trustees of each branch being got together for 1 meeting a year. There could be something in this.

H.H. is very keen on a Friends of the Museum and also getting some financial ways to cough up to get the Museum of the ground. Amboo[?] Hy [?] is keen on the former and he's already done some spadework on the latter on Burns of Burns Philp. H.H. also warned me that I should not give the impression that this was another backdoor means of getting money for the University ! Funny to see the boot on the other foot.

Got back to he Museum and wrote to Peter Crowcroft and asked him to put Graeme Pretty in touch with me at Adelaide Airport on my way through. Most important that he should do what we want for the report. We need ammunition not artifacts!

Spoke to the N-G Scientific Society, fair, quite a lot of questions.

> 28th Saturday
Picked up by John Womersley at 0900 and we went down to TAA and fixed the flight tickets to Lae. Then connt into town and did a bit of shopping for slacks[?], a pen, one film, etc. After that went back to the airport checked in baggage and up to the Gateway Hotel to have a drink before leaving. Met a young Scottish Dr & wife. He's a malarialologist[?]. Main comment of interest is that apathy is their main problem in an eradication campaign.

Left on a "Friendship" for Lae at about 12.40. Took about an hour. Almost all the way above the clouds saw nothing of the land below. Arrived at Lae after lunch and was met by Mary Womersley. V. nice., 2 children at home and 3 in Warwick in school. They used to have them at Adelaide but moved up to Qsld. John took me to the Huon Gulf Motel where I was booked in. Very comfortable room - airconditioned etc. Spent most of the afternoon driving around Lae. A beautiful place with very strong resemblance to Penang. Mountains in the distance lovely gardens. Poinciana tinus (H.K. "Flame of the forest") along the streets and epiphytes everywhere. Took a few coloured photos.

Drove over to the herbarium which John is officer in charge of the Division of Botany. It is a beautiful structure [?] 8,000 squ ft, cost $200,000 including air conditioning. Designed as one new building is on the flow principle. 1 very good feature not in our plans is a staff[?] room at the entrance into which all food boxes must be placed. No food goes into the building. The plant entrance is at the other end and all the fumigation[?] is carried out at an entry bay with a tank into which methyl bromide[?], 4 ozs per cu ft at 76*F, is the finegment[?]. This is blown out before the tank is opened. The specimens are then dipped into 5% in white spirit lauryl pentachlorphenate (LPCP trade Mystox). Unfortunately they can't use compactors because they are in an earth tremor zone. Photos of inside of herbarium. Went to the Botanical Gardens and took photos c and b&w of Dendrolagus matschiei.

Had drinks at the Womersleys to meet various people (see list at end). Took them out to dinner at the hotel. Wrote up notes,  to bed at 23.15.

> 29th Sunday
Spent day driving to Bulolo, Wau and McAdam Park [1C 31] [BW 7]
(see notes at end).
C31 Markham Bridge looking W. upstream egret in foreground. Broad valley with hills C8000ft in background.
C32 View back area Markham Valley for Oomsis Hill.
C33 Manmade grasslands, made from hill forest by burning, filled swamp in foreground, one sago, mainly Alstonia spathulata
C34 Spathoglottis sp. single blossom on roadside
C35 Near Wampit tributary of Markham. Syo in valley and hill forest behind.
C36 Wampit River, looking upstream at about 800 ft. river alt about  200 ft. still lowland rainforest
C37 Same but stepped down.

New film
C01 C02 Village houses Guracor Village. These houses are made with planks (broad axed); originally these were sheets of bark
03 Patep Creek looking up towards headwaters of Wampit River. Deforestation of native gardens in different styles. c. 3000 ft. Oak-laurel forest, bush fallow regrowth. Flat-topped trees are Albizia which are a sure sign of very old gardens or sometimes gravel banks on rivers (possibly in skyline of photo)
04 View down Snake Valley towards the Watut & Bulolo. Small town in photo Mumeng. c 3000 ft. Curecina[?] on top of leeth[?] (see Plaine fig.15, p. 62) just to the north of his maps). 2 sypp of Auracaria fine foliaged Hoop pine, coarser.
05 Rhododendron aurigeranum very many gsp of indigenous Rhododendrons in N.S.W.
06 Section exposed in Munery[?] creek. Oxyglucate [?] fallen off hillside. Typical disorganised material.
07 Valley of Snake River, downstream towards the junction with the Watut. Hills of schists of the Kaindi metamorphosis - c 1800 ft in valley.
08 View across the Watut at old Sunshine Gold sluicing site. Foreground on, left Kaindi schists, centre tailings from the dredges middle distance, Otibanda beds exposed. Status localists are on the right of the picture.
09 View down the Watut across Otibanda beds for the junction of the Watut and Bulolo, on eastern side of snon[?]looking north i e towards Sunshine
010, 011, 012 Village with suspension bridge
013 Wau gorge looking downstream, Araucaria in foreground
014 Wau down the airfield
015 J.B. McAdam park, lake and rainforest behind
016 Wau Gorge looking downstream
017-21 Sunshine. The faultline looking downstream across to the Sunshine Goldbanda[?] locs. of Stutina[?]
022 Suctic[?] loc. looking yestern [?]. This is taken slightly south of 08 looking back.

We drove up from Lae starting at 0815 and in brilliant sunshine. The road goes up the Markham Valley and then up the Snake River valley and after crossing the high point at about 3600 ft falls down into the Valley of the Bulolo and Watut Rivers. First of all the road goes through coastal swamp forest with mud water and sago palms mixed in with it. From alongside this the hills rise sharply with lowland hill first. This is often converted into Kunai granted by native burning. Recently there has been considerable re-afforestation by prohibiting burning - principally at higher levels ("Pia Hambu"). The road is a good one and tests violently around the valley. In the higher hill country the native gardens and the succession through into "Bush falloo" is very obvious. In the areas of no names land along the Snake Valley huge areas of kunai caused by anthropogenic fires occur with small patches of araucaria first in the valleys and along the hill-tops showing what it must have been like.

The road passes high schists with sunshine is reached and down the Otibanda lake series became obvious where they have been directed by the river. The sluicing operations have also revealed large areas.

From there we drove on up to to Bulolo where we stopped for a drink with Robin Angus and his wife Beverley. Robin is in charge of the Forestry School. Bulolo is a hot & reputedly unpleasant place. It is reasonably attractive now with trees planted and gardens but said to be hot in the valley.

The road from Bulolo goes through a deep gorge - very spectacular - along which the miners had to go to get to the goldfields at Edie Creek. Altogether, the scenery is incredible. The miners used to say that it was so dark in the bottom of the gorge that you could look up and see the stars in daylight ! may says now that I have seen it I should get hold of "Gold Dust & Ashes" again.

Wau is an attractive place with an uphill airstrip ("Give way to aircraft baby"). Seems just high enough to be cool. Had lunch at the Wau hotel very pleasant, Meg and John were my guests. Real cream from a nice little herd of Jerseys !

Rain threatening & getting quite cold. Drove out to McAdam Park. Jim McAdam was the Director of Forests who started the forestry survey and had a vision of reafforestation. He had a coronory and died at 49.

A glorious place. Raining heavily - drove down the gorge through the valley & back to Lae. John pretty tired after a long and difficult drive. John very interesting about land tenure here. Apparently the land all belongs to the villages and when timber leases are granted the govt. pays the village a lump sum which is assessed on the royalties which is sometimes some thousands of dollars. This system is one of the principal reasons why there few National Parks here. All the land is owned. It seems likely that the Native House of Assembly will change all this. The Papuan[?] administration can't do it - without a scream from the U.N. John likes the idea of a sociological survey of N.G. but how to graft this onto the lhnnen[?] as an administrative mind ?
 Sleep on it !

> 30th October Monday
Flight up to Goroka & the Baiyer Valley & on to Mt Hagen Michael[?] picked me up as we want to get some film. Picked up John & Mrs Playfair. Took C23 photo of Goroka here.
0935 Take off for Snake River and Sunshine

Fly up Markham Valley to get some photos of
C24 Lake Warum from about 1100 ft. above teuin[?], same as C33 of yesterday.
C25 Hill valley above Wagau
C26 Waterfall above Snake River at about 4,000 ft.
C27-31 Sushine[?] from air also B&W-12
C32 The junction of the Zalolo & the Watut
C33-36 The beds of the Upper Watut, B&W 13,14,15

There are considerable exposures in the Upper Watut spread over a considerable area, Obviously well-worth extensive work.
Loaded with Kodachrome X.

Set course 315* across Watut & roughly 11 to the Markham to Goroka. 10.35 Met by Henderson and Ken Jones who drove us out to meet Barry Madden at the Teachers Training College. This is a remarkable place: took photos of the College also views from the College C1-4 at the Goroka Teacher Training College at the base.

Madden is very keen on the idea that the College might be helped by a local museum - met Joey Hynes, the science teacher at the College He is very good value. I told him that if he wants identification we will do what we can for him. He is teaching biology with an essentially ecological approach, but geology with the rocks forst followed by geomorphology !

Drove on down to the hotel in town. Had lunch, Madden was invited too to join the party which was made up of the main committee and the District Commission. Hardly had a chance to eat. Talked like a Dutch Uncle.

Went out and visited the Goroka town[?], a colourful job. Product of Local Rotary. Really a remarkable achievement. Apparently they were awarded a prize and the whole thing was published in the Rotarian. Must get a copy.

14.48 Take off for Mt. Hagen and Baiyer River. Going SW cross Asaro River Gorge - Purari Gorge.
C5-10 In the gorge villages and mountains
C11 Kundiawa admin headquarters of Chimbu district
C12,13 Wahgi[?] Valley at Nundugl looking west c.2000ft., mountains in Nundugl [?] at about 8000 ft.
C14 Baiyer valley about 3000 ft., sediments clenerd[?] for the Hagen volcanics.

Met by Bob Bell the District Commissioner in his car, driving rain and then went to the Sanctuary. Met David Gosney (age about 18-17) who is now in charge after Shaw-Mayer [?] left a few weeks ago. He showed us around. A fascinating collection of Birds of Paradise moved from the former Halstrom Trust at Nondugl. Also a few native animals. The boy is keen but has a hell of a chip. Doesn't know what the future is. Apparently the whole thing is a bit of a pet of Tom Ellis. This has succeeded by getting some $6000 into its expenditure this tear. The rest of the money comes from Mt Hagen locals with support for Halstram. This is in the form of a few yards of chicken wire, so far. It is about 70[?] miles from Mt hagen by road, with a mile or two of extra road to the Sanctuary.

Took photos of 3 species of Tree-Kangaroo:
1. Dendrogalus satschiei, (2 stripes)
2. Dendrogalus dorarius, (ring on tail) 
3. Dendrogalus goodfellowi, (bearlike with light patch on rump)
Two cucures[?], a white female and a spotted grey male.
Small and very beautiful jungle wallaby ? Dorcopsulus, sharp attractive face and bare end to very short tail (All B&W).

Drove back to Mt. Hagen through the rain. Took photos of the native villages and a few of the locals in the rain with their pandanus leaf raincapes, also a shot back down the valley towards Baiyer River from the passage into Mt Hagen.

Got back to the Residency where the D.C. put us in the guest wing. He and his wife came round for a drink before going out to a dinner engagement. She turned out to be a very old school friend of Pamela Tunley's[?]. Promised to give regards. They got us two axes for the boys.

Had dinner out, although very tired, John and I sat up and discussed the problems raised by Baiyer Valley Collection and hopes of a Biological Survey of new Guinea. To bed at 11.15.

> 1 Nov. 1967 (Tuesday)
Up at 5 with a cup of tea and then in to the aerodrome about 7 miles out. Took off as the valley fog rolled up and headed for Goroka where we were to drop a pilot who had hitched a lift.

Photos of the valley across from Mt. Wilhelm over the Nondugl strip to the range beyond. Very striking in the early morning light. The Markham ramifies across its flats.

Arrived at Lae at 0800 and went out with John to buy some curios for the little girls & Pete got some Trobriand pigs for Sue & Kath and a Sepik mask for Pete. All trade goods but still nice.

Continued talk of night before - added to the insect situation (see Idors?)
1. Mephology - see Dorothy Shore
2. Fish collections and any systematic marine collection - see Rogerson[?]

Getty's[?] visit. A good look at Hagen, drainage in the Wahgi Valley or Kangel Valley. Investigate reports that the Anthropologists for ANU who  are collecting archaeological material and shipping it out as personal possessions. John is hoping about the whole thing, thinks that the Snowy concept is a very good one. He drove me out to the plane at 10.00.
 
Notes on our conversation of the night before: written in aircraft Friendship "Frank Hann" (a good omen!) between Lae and Moresby.
The concept as I put it to John[?] was for a number of separate projects in Lae, Moresby and Goroka.
1. A building almost identical with the Lae Herbarium to be built in Jone[?] Valley to house the collections, staff and workshops of the Papua NG Museum[?].

2. The present accommodation be kept to house the Port Moresby Galleries of the PNG mine[?].

3. A smaller module be constructed at Goroka alongside the present Goroka galleries of the PNG museum to provide professional services for the Highlands & end local unions[?].

4. When the Moresby module bursts at the seams a new module be built alongside the present Lae Museum to house Zoological Survey Division and the Biological Survey of New Guinea be created with 2 divisions. Which, together with the Anthropological survey, would comprise the PNG Museum.

> 2nd Nov. 1967.
Mr Lang ABC. 2356, or 2646 rang, wants me to ring him back for an interview at 3.30. Neville Moderate, Photographer.

> 3rd Nov.
Went out to the Fishes Lab down at the coast beyond the University and photographed b&w. ?Risso's Dolphin. Harold J. Coolidge. Ryson showed me Chelus landers - re Harold's idea of 12 years. Will write to him and send copy to Harold. Write to Elwood about Barry Wilson-Cones[?]. Left Moresby at 1340 - a fantastic trip. I'm afraid I bulldozed like mad all over the place but they seemed happy to take it and it was the only way to put it over in the shortness of time. Alan Bern[?], Dorothy Shaw and Roy McKay all came down and saw me off - they really are a nice mob.
 
People met in New Guinea. Moresby.
1.   Sir Alan Mann, Lady Mann (Yvonne), Chief Justice.
2.   Mr John Womersley (& Mary at Lae), Chief Division of Rotary, Dept of Forests, Box 314, Lae.
3.   Mr. Roy McKay, Preparator in Charge
4.   Prof. Don Drover, Prof. of Chemistry.
5.   Prof. Ken Lamb, Prof. of Biology
6.   Prof Ken Inglis, Prof of History
7.   Mr. David Hay, Administrator
8.   Mr. Tom Ellis, Director, Dept of District Administration, Port Moresby
9.   Dr. Dorothy Shaw, Senior Plant Pathologist, Dept. of Agriculture
10. Keith Mattingly, Managing Director, South Pacific Post Ltd.
11. R (Bob) Cole, Commissioner of Police
12. Miss Elaine Bruce, Secretary, Museum.
13. E. Ted Fenner, Entomologist, Dept. of Agriculture
14. Dr. Duncanson, Director of Higher Technical Education
15. A.(Sandy) Renwick (monocle), Resident Geologist, B.M.R.
16. Mr. L.W.(Winston) Filewood, Fisheries, Division of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries
17. D. M. Rapson, Chief Division of Fisheries, Dept. of Agriculture
Ewer Dept of Biology
Dr. K. McKinnon, Director of Education
Dr. J.T. Gunther, Vice Chancellor.

Not  met: Tony Newman - Treasurer, Jim Ritchie, Actg. Treasurer - George Summers (W.A.) P.S.C.

Lae
Mark Coode (=Code) - Cary (wife), Senior Botanist, ex Cantab.
Phil Scully, Rosemary - Postmaster
D.N.Ashton & Jean, District Commissioner, to move to Bougainville
Michael Galore, Assistant, Lae herbarium friend of Walkers)
Robin Angus, Bulolo - Principal Papua & N.G. Footy School...

> 24th June 1964
Take off Carnarvon, low cloud and rain (light), all roads are closed north of town. Boolathana, photo of clay pans & salt lake on Quobba country flooded, ASI 140. All country here, i.e. E of large salt lake, seemed to be spinifex in flats with ironstone sand on gravel rises with sparse mulga. Claypans here seem to be oriented approx N/S a high there is no sign of the Boologooro redhills(?), must be earlier. Minilya HS large river gums along river, spinifex in between, claypans with low rise covered with sparse (?mulga) sand. Breakaways of a low range directed by eastward flagstones. Breakaways face west and streams from there to the Western lake are very short, from there backs browner they are clay streams flowing east into the claypan system to the west of the highway. Learmonth road  .... length stream flowing into the northern end of the lakes system (Cardadia Creek). The breakaways must be the edge of the Cretaceous. Now in red Cainozoic (?) sands of Cape. E.W. road crosses river and scrubby range to our east. Flat bedded sediments exposed on western sides of range. River flowing through K. sediments, good exposures in bands, river flows from n-s +1 fence, +1 fence +1 fence +fence. Bullara Homestead (I must tell Glen. Excellent rubbish dump!) Sandhills trending SSW.

Rough Range. Breakaways along S.C. side of range (i.e. edge of a plateau), deep creeks with trees in gorges. Coming down to Learmonth Strip, leaving Learmonth Strip. Turned off road south of airstrip, truck just past creek crossing (concrete) marker in sandhill at post in east of area C, post 513.
92.4 Fence line, very slightly w of north
92.9 Corner fence lines approx nw
95.3 big circle
394.0 Corner near ....(?)
393.3 through fence at mill & back along Fu.... track
394.5 back at corner & turn straight on along the direction of the short fence to the mill 220*. Line of pegs at small barbed wire enclave, sign reads Corrosion testing, metal samples buried "Location F".
395.3 Red peg BB..R1 White pegs 1107 &1089, line of pegs due south & N.
95.5 last pegs for final clo.. - well defined track
96.2 Wide creek no pegs turned back.
96.5 Xroads just beyond our original turnoff. bery trig pt. 39*.
Pegs (300/8500 : 9400 :9300 342 in ascending value.
900  9100 Back at testing clearing - peg 11107 Al. disc in peg T5 - 1.
Lasts & surveys connect just. E/5.
400.0 Try P... ridge beams. Back at 225* Drive back along ridge to main track ie firebreak to main road. fr is cross road 400.9 between .... 7 concrete creek crossing (R... 401.01), 8404.2 Run through
408.2 Back at airstrip.

Decided to spend night at Learmonth to collect fossil, Lt. Col. Keith Murdoch MBE, Civil Commission, Exmouth, (A.J.) Lee Brunning, Jack Neal. Spent the whole afternoon with Lee Brunning looking for the line of pegs but no luck at all. Found the West Base Trig and tried to pick up the line of pegs but no luck. They should be metal fenceposts with aluminium discs attached to them (Commonwealth surveyor back at Learmonth informed me afterwards). They run in extremely rough limestone foothill country.

Cave paintings at Talgarno. C'wealth Surveyor Arthur Dawson, approx S-SE of Talgarno Tn.site, approx 35 miles : Circles, reptile, Included Hill- overhang with cave shelter. Dawson has accurate fix of spot in his survey notes. Write to Chief ...... Officer, Dept of Interior, 11-15 William St., Perth

> 25th June
Take off DC3 Learmonth. [K1]Coast south of Onslow flooded mud flats, creeks & mangroves. 13.15[2B] Onslow.

14.15 Back at Barrow [K - all the rest] of island. Found Dampier Archipelago coming up. ETA Hedland is 15.40. Have sent message to XW via DCA to inform them. We may catch them on the ground & save a night in Hedland [K8] of Dampier Archipelago and Kanasclen country and also[3B] of Northern Springs only. Remarkable silhouette.

15.10 Discovered that an ETA now 15.50 will just miss the party in Hedland by 10 mins. Pilot decided to put me down to try.

Arrived Hedland, Aerocommander still on strip at Xstrips, pilot pulled up & I jumped out & scrambled into A/C & off !! Now to get into Broome before dark !

Broome : people to contact : John Tapper & brother Edgar (medico), Peter Hinchley engineer,, Dr Des Kelly. Small footprinters(?) K.B. Spry, Broome, job prospects, letter to me in Perth making enquiries.

[K1] coastal .... at Talgarno. Very clear in lowering sun, old coastline also shows up very well.

Get address of Australian Natural History for John Tapper. Dr Bill Smith physician at Chest Hospital.

John Tapper described a possum with short ears, large eyes, scaley bare tail like a file which he caught in the cylinder box at Entrance point - clearly Wyulda [squamicaudata]. He let it go in his garden.

> 26th June
Photos of luggers (?) ; Dampier West etc. Went with John Tapper and Peter Hinchley to the new jetty & to Entrance Point. Saw the usual(?) scappy plst fossils at new jetty, then on to Entrance Point and took photo of general view . Bloodwoods, Banksia, Corktrees.

Taxi out to the take off for survey of Dampier (?) land. B7W with green filter x 2, colour at 25AsA. [K1] [B1], photos of Pindan 500ft just before Barred creek(?), Quondong Downs (?), Point Coulomb,

[2K] [2B]Cape Bertholet turned 90* along 236802 north, sandy, AS130K, 1443. Changed B&W in camera, tried 90*note 14.50. Camera now at B in 4, K in 23. Last photo before turning E some drifts of same etc at coast at Cape Bertholet. Pilot estimates about 15 mls.

The study of the ..... seems to be very dense for Pindan - there are flowering acacias, ? cadeppents & pandanus in the creeks - well integrated with creeks.

Coming up to Beagle Bay 1457 [1K] [1BW] of much more typical Pindan.[1K][1B] of mangroves at Beagle Bay looking E. close into Bay.

Pindan in flower[2K][1B] cutting across to Pender Bay. Pender Bay turned East up Kelk Creek 150 about halfway along creek[1K] +[1B] (mudflats & kadgetty) up here there seems much less like pindan. Roos [K1] Donkeys (Bill) been at500 ft all the way so far.1512 Turned new course for Derby for about centre of peninsula 158* [1K] pindan with white .......[K1] Creek at Disaster Bay [B1] Big boas in midst of pindan 1520 Valentine Island coming up [B2] of Derby.

Derby

Documents (a) Postmaster : explain ..... decision (b) Alan Ridge (c) McGregor fossils for Kainzoic library freelists 21c for John Tozer (d) Glen Cairns Native Welfare (e) Jim Coleman. Basil McQuade, note Cencil Lands (?).

> 27th June
Take off from Derby. Before takeoff [2K] [2B] of the Prison Tree and of the Royal Flying Doctor Service tablet.

Meda Homestead , Mt Hart strip (Clearskin(?) directly overhead, very rough & broken country. Headwaters of Barker River. There is an old strip there, looks very interesting country, rough as blazes. Synnot Range, very big tableland country, huge breakaways down into narrow valleys with good waters.[K1] just short of Gibb River, photo towards SSE [K1] Gibb R. sandy bed, altitude 7000. Gally forest in headwaters of Durack R. [K1], Durack R. further downstream [K1]. END OF FILM.

Breakaways to the SE of the Gut(?) [K1]

[2K] View of Wyndham [1B], Wyndham town [1B] Meatworks. [K1] Rayes(?) with Ord River between [B1] Kununurra.

> 28 June 1964
Parry's lagoon on the ground. Echidna collected in Saw Ranges nr Wyndham, Mark Nevill, 1963 / 4 Christmas.

Took Halls Creek Rd to Kununurra [K2] in hills near Parry's Creek : Eucalypts on hills, boabs, colewoods(?), cassias & other deciduous trees in valleys [K1] between hills. Here less eucalypts and more deciduous [K1] from range of hills near creek to across the plain to Kununurra, white tipped post in picture, white top about 10 in.[3K] Dunham River Bridge +[1K] Bandicoot Br, Ord R.

> 29 June 1964
0520 Climbed Kelly's Knob in order to check reported fossil in the Precambrian quartzite on the top. Not a fossil.

0800 left Kununurra. 0838 bus(?) take off Wyndham, course 185*, 120 knots

0857 [K1] [B1] Gorge ? King R. Looley West along Cockburn Ra. 0905 140 knots, course 180*, 8000 ft. Turkey Creek looking west [K1] [B1]end of film. Violet Valley Country [all Kodachromes to date are probably out of focus] This is very dry country, looks like sandstone savannah, so much for the myth that the Wyalda country is high rainfall country. Now b&w.

[B1] Taken looking west, sandstone savannah country typical of Violet Valley crossed main road immediately afterwards. Country here dissected by creeks with lines of trees. Very broken country wide NS Ranges across the river. All these streams seem to be headwaters of the Ord. There is a peculiar small portal of sediments in a formation 10* from Halls Creek, 10-20 m. appears to lie among Precambrian. Trends NS on opposite side of river to the main ranges. Good exposures[Check this] Well west of main road, circles Halls Creek[K1] [B1]of town & looking west [2K] at low level looking oast. 0953 Air strip.

Examined skeleton at police stn., Aboriginal (?male)  caves in anthill burial. Moola Bulla Skeleton, Const. Dwyer (says burial ground nr. Mt. Burnet(?). Appleby says that there is another stn. Flora Valley.

Prospecting Company. Pickards Mather & co. Industrial. George Hanna Camp manager, Donald Perkin, geologist, Sydney. C. of PM Halls Creek, Don Ealey, Project Chief. Donald Perkin is a good one with a fine collection of pickup artifacts. They collect insects for New England.

Take off for Fitzroy Crossing by road route. Country seems to be mostly flat alluvial works with the remains of an old plateau along ... ... torn bits of breakaways looks rather like Nullagine country.

Koongie Park[Aboriginal Community] claypan country, Lamboo, May River [K1] [B1] flat burnt out country with rivers & long ranges in distance. Margaret R.[K1][B4] junction of May & Margaret [K1][B1] Louisa(?) Downs on Margaret R.[K1B1], Red Bluff & Mt Frank. Spinifex plain, gently undulating with N.s..fit... wood and small eucalypts.

1350 Red Bluff[K1B1] halfway between Red Bluff & Wolaria(?) Downs> [B3K] in gorge. Hancligan(?) Cliffs. Christmas Creek[1K]taken Cooley N. way from the station. Chestnut Bore, all of the country, green spinifex pindan(?) with small trees scattered about. Nipper Creek a gaggle of eucalypts across the plain, gigantic anthills & N..... everywhere.1420 [K2] Emanuel Ra.

> 30th June 64
John Greymark, Senior Constable, Norm Newland, Const [Inspector Gallagher Browne], Joy & Jack Sandford, Mrs Newland is a Mungton (?) girl, Bath St., Dulcie (Peg) Edgington (Cec Edgington, Hardware).

(saiwon) Wangillee (jillie) =cycles "golliwog" police native. Met Jim Clarks and Directu Liverings, Ted McLarty, Luluigui, Mac, McNamara. Jubilee Duncan Boston, Noonkan. They say that Karrabul are quite common on Luluigui and Liveringa country. Rabbits have been seen towards the end of the dry season on Jubilee by McLarty, Waciots (?) appear to be quite plentiful along the river country. Saw Jeff Rose on Quanbun and went up to Aligator Dam (now Jubilee Dam) also went to the dam futen made. There is a curious white conglomerate at Aligator Dam but not in the more northern of the dams, suspect that this is the material from which fossils obtained. Collected specimens, no bore (?) : 12804 - 12805 Geological catalogue. (Added) From examining these fossils on the occasion of their accession to the collection on 22/9/66, it appears probable that the site is the same as that visited by Douglas & Kendrick on 1/7/66 this is 12 miles by road from Fitzroy Crossing Post Office & I have endorsed the labels etc accordingly numbers are 66.884 to 66.898 GWK.

> 1 July
Drove out to exposures of Fairfield beds beyond airfield on road to Derby, collected front fossils. Take off [K2] of .... inn [K1] near trig hill [B1] at about 1000ft, climbing to make light near Alexander Island, 3000 ft triodia. The [K1]B1], long ridges of ? Fairfield beds exposed, on bearing strike 230* may be old sandhills. Jubilee Homestead [K1] on bend of river, taken looking over towards Jubilee Dam on Quanbun Downs (Aligator Tank). Ht 7000 Very broken range country over on the left i.e. south of the river i.e. Permian grant Fn of St. George's Range [K1].

Quite a lot of bare fidhill country red sand, remainder particularly to the west is sand and triodia. The bare sand is fine pattern [K1][B1], 8,200.The Bowns probably listing too far open.

Breakaways [K1][B1] capped with a hard crust of greenish more friable material beneath matches Springs.

Abeam of Mowla bluff, Edgar Ranges a very broken piece of country clear of the sandhills. Headwaters of Geegully creek[K1] [B1] Woyley slightly W. of Nack, 8000 [K1][B1]looking 150* Wapet track, vegetation the same as further east, long sandhills evenly spaced, very few chains. Study about +EW. Passing to the west of the most easterly of the salt lake chain of the extinct Tilgano river. Chain dunes seem to be very stable, vegetation in the links, almosts if the dune system is beginning to break down - in fact the chains are commonest towards the ends of the dunes. Crossing the salt lake system(most northern chain)have some of the chain dunes are beginning to blow out. There is water in the lakes and also in interclinal depressions. Change course to 230*, Ht 8000. Sandhills finish. Main channel of Talga R., sandhills start again.[K1]. Dunes now cleared to coast with fine change to sandhills clear. Sandhills finish. Open triodia plain with small isolated lumps of breakaway. Very much fire damage, whole square miles denuded. We have been flying along the outer edge of the sandhills. Low features with streams and vegetation in valleys, sandhills start again but we are only crossing the western end about a mile inland. Junction of Nullagine R., De Grey and Oakover River head. Passing east of small range of broken hills at headwaters of Calleon Creek [K1][B1] along DeGrey crossing Bamboo creek, photo in angle of range at about 250*.

Marble Bar town, Mines Office, 2000ft coming into land, looking SSW approx. Marble Bar Mr. B.H. Stubbs was the person responsible for the rabbit bandicoot. Have told him that Douglas and Butler will call.

Take off for Nullagine, course 150*. Crossed the Marble Bar hills and now on a flat spinifex plain to the west of very broken country. hills on NW of Nullagine, mostly rough country with spinifex and a few trees.[K1] tributaries of Nullagine River flowing eastwards on edge of hills less than 10 m. from Nullagine.[K1][K1][B1] Nullagine township. W  illiam M. McKinnon is reputed to be mining diamonds in the conglomerate. 74 Duckland St N. Perth.

> 2nd July 1964
Nullagine takeoff course 195*. East of Bonney Downs Homestead [K1] Roy Hill beds, breakaways n. of Roy Hill to the immediate W. of the road. Good exposures 8000Ft@140K. The Fortescue here flows west along a flat plain jumped up from the breakaway to the north. Looks very much like Mulga Downs country. Roy Hill directly underneath, photo taken west [K1][K1] Mt Newman and the Ophthalmia Range looking west. Eastwards flowing Fortescue round the top of the Ophthalmia Range. Spinifex and ironstone sand country with little relief.

Booloo Downs Homestead. Headwaters of the Ashburton R. Some flat slightly rolling spinifex country with trees along creeks. [K1][B1]8000 looking west. Collier Range[K2] looking west. Abeam of 3Rivers

Homestead. Flat ironstone sand country , spinifex some mulga. At Gascoyne R flowing westwards[K1][B1] looking west. Crossing highway south of Doolgunna Homestead & just south of Robertson Range. Course changed to 210* more  or less// add to east of road.

Sherwood and Yoothapina coming in to land at Meekatharra. Mulga to the north is v. patchy and seems to be very dry in the area drained by the many tributaries of the Murchison itself seems to be more dense to the west, east & south [K1][B1] Mulga is dense to the west, east & south but this may only be on deck.(Meekatharra). Take off for Leonora course 135*[K1][B1] looking south 3000ft. Passed Hillview, 7,500 (Real 6,200) Course 135* ASI. 140. Among Montague Range a very nondescript set of low breakaways down to a lower level. There is a curious little patch of (long N.S. dunes) on top of dunes?. Lake Mason : very poor exposures. A few small breakaways a mile or so from the northern bank. Lake itself has very gently sloping margin. Airstrip abeam, coming up for Leinster Downs, red soil with scattered mulga.

Lawlers. Coming up for Wildara above the main road to Leonora, largish creeks with eucalypts, remainder still seems to be gently undulating red soil with not very dense mulga and some sort of greyish low cover. Sturt Meadows Homestead [K1][B1] 4000 ft. Clover Downs & Lake Raeside in background, poor exposures, white river gums along creeks, grey foliage of shrubs? away from river must be mulga the shadows come right down to the ground[K1].

[K1][B1] of Gwalia & Leonora : Sons of Gwalia mine. Landing. Took [K&B] of mine, end of films.

Sons of Gwalia, Mr. R.A.Barden, general manager of Mine, Has first 10 folders of correspondence 1898-1904, including correspondence of Herbert Hoover 1st Agreement & between prospectus & S. of G. Mr Barden will leave here within six months.

> 3rd July 1964
Took[K] of mulga at aerodrome [B4] [new film], of mulga, grass, sticks and solanaceous plant. Up above Leonora, course 175* straight to Kalgoorlie. Dense mulga cover, Alt.6,000 looking west ; patches of ?eucalypt beginning to come in particularly along the shallow stream washes [K1][B1] looking west. Salt lakes  crossed ? skyline a few poor exposures at Radd-Western? and otherwise mostly gently shelving banks even creeks flowing in have very poor banks.

Mulga / eucalypt mixture looking west [K1][B1] suggest grey mulga - darker eucalypt. More lakes, still mixed mulga eucalypt. Descent begins.

[K1][B1]  2500 alt., [K1] of spoil heaps at mine on deck, Alt. 0900ft.

In air on way to Perth[K1][B1] two kinds of eucalypt, 1 green, 1 grey, green with shiny leaves & brown stems, grey with whitish stems....