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Worked over my notes and specimens in the afternoon. 

 Reached Edwards 1 place at 6 #30 and found several guests 

 already assembled. Jones and his wife were there and 

 we all talked over our cocktails. Later Pomeroy and 

 his daughter appeared and the rest of the evening was 

 spent listening to him and looking at the Kodachrome 

 moving pictures (mostly under exposed and all of local 

 interest). I remember that in 1937 I was also afflicted 

 with Pomeroy under the same circumstances. At eight we 

 all departed and I had dinner at Piccadilly Road. 



May 3. Bernard called for me at 7 AM and we started for 



Portland Ridge for the day. 

 He is looking for sizable 

 deposits of bat guano as a 

 source of phosphate and he 

 also has a line on a bauxite 

 deposit. We took the main 

 road to Old Harbour, then the 

 first left to Alley and around 

 the bay nearly to the point. 

 Just beyond the sign post "To 

 the Cave 11 we parked the car in 

 the bush near a path up to the 

 top of the ridge. The rock is 

 honeycomb, like that on Goat 

 Island and the vegetation is 

 quite similar. Started up the 

 path, packing our supplies on 

 our backs. Made two collec- 

 tions of Nasutitermes along 

 the path, one colony living in 

 a carton nest in a tree beside 

 the path and the other coming 

 from a hole in the ground. 

 C. Bernard Lewis Half way up I took a sample of 



Nasutitermes from under bark 

 of a small standing dead tree, in the sound wood of which 

 I found a fine colony of a Cryptotermes, different from 

 Cryptotermes brevis Walk. As the species is certainly new 

 to the island and perhaps new to science, I cut out and 

 saved a piece of the wood showing the galleries. We missed 

 the turn off for the cave and climbed nearly to the top of 

 the ridge. While Bernard scouted around to locate the 

 opening of the cave, I cut down and dissected a bromeliad, 

 finding a few crustaceans similar to Asellus and one cater- 

 pillar. Also opened a standing dead tree and found colonies 

 of two different species of Kalotermes. There was a small 

 scorpion under the bark which I got. In the meantime, the 

 mouth of the cave had been located and we started back down. 

 The cave is the largest that I have ever been in, about 



