NO. 17 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, IQIO 3 
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During this expedition Mr. Raven has traveled by land instead 
of by water. His covered cart is shown in the photograph (fig. 37). 
At Parigi he intended to secure about six pack horses. 
Only one shipment of specimens had been received up to January 
8, 1917. It includes three hundred and nineteen mammals and about 
three hundred birds; also numerous reptiles, mollusks, and insects. 
GERRIT S. MOLLER, JiR: 
Fic. 37—My cart and horses on the road to Tondano. In this way I traveled 
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wherever there were good roads in Minahassa. 
EXPLORATION IN CHINA 
Owing to a variety of circumstances, the work of Mr. Arthur 
de C. Sowerby, in China, has been less successful than usual. At 
the end of 1915 he visited Shanghai and parts of the neighboring 
country on the lower Yangtze. Field-work during this expedition 
did not produce any very important results ; but the examination of 
the Heude collection of mammals in the Sikawei Museum has 
thrown much light on one of the most difficult problems connected 
with the systematic study of Chinese mammals. Heude assembled 
a large collection of skulls, chiefly of bears and ungulates, from all 
