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where, but not very productive of shells. We spent about a 

 week in Korea half in Seoul and three days in a trip to visit 

 Dr. Borrow, an English lady-physician who is doing a marvel- 

 lous lot of surgical work in a very primitive hospital in an out- 

 of-the-way place, twenty-six miles from the R. R. On this trip 

 I picked up about two hundred Melanias in a little stream we 

 followed for a mile or two; I also got about thirty species of 

 flowers, although the season is late. 



Korea is almost absolutely free of timber, a tradition stating 

 that early Koreans cut it all out to make the country appear 

 barren and to prevent invasion by envious neighbors. It is 

 closely cultivated however wherever it is level enough and the 

 yield is generally good. 



The most striking thing to the tourist is the costuming of 

 men and women and the hair dressing of the men. All married 

 men wear the hair in a closely tied topknot projecting about 

 four inches from the vertex. The unmarried men and boys 

 part their hair in the middle and braid it into a long pig-tail. 

 So that we took them all for girls till we learned that no girl or 

 woman is seen without a skirt. 



From Seoul we ran through Manchuria to Peking, where we 

 spent a week, doing the ordinary stunts including a two-days 

 run out to Nankow to see the great Wall and the Ming tombs. 

 Then we ran to Hankow by rail where we took boat down the 

 Yang Tse to Nanking where we put in two delightful days as 

 guests of Mrs. Thurston, an old friend of my wife's who is pres- 

 ident of a Woman's College, already endowed but yet to be 

 built. 



I am astonished at the educational and hospital work being 

 carried by the various missionary boards in the cities of China. 

 There are seventeen separate establishments, churches, chapels, 

 hospitals, and schools and a university under control of the 

 American Episcopal board in the three cities Hankow, Han 

 Yang and Wuchang grouped about the junction of the Han and 

 Yang Tse rivers. 



At Nanking around the old examination halls I took about a 

 hundred Helices of three species, and later on the way to the 

 tomb of the first Ming Emperor I got two or t^ee hundred 



