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change in the fauna, travel was of the ordinary kind, by boat, rail and 

 wagon road. Tent life was an important element in the living condi- 

 tions, and at times it was rendered difficult by the heavy rains which 

 in some districts broke a long-continued drought just at the time 

 of Mr. Hoy's arrival. Detailed accounts of the work, with photo- 

 graphs of many of the animals collected, and with passages from 

 Mr. Hoy's letters have been published in previous numbers of this 

 series of Exploration pamphlets (Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 72, 

 No. I, pp. 28-32; vol. ']2, No. 6, pp. 39-43). 



Fig. 46. — Part of exhibition case in National Museum showing some of the 

 kangaroos collected by Mr. Hoy in Australia. 



Dr. Abbott's unfailing interest in the national collections is shown 

 by the fact that he has now arranged to send Hoy to China for the 

 purpose of obtaining vertebrates from certain especially important 

 localities in the Yang-tze valley, a region with which Hoy has been 

 familiar for many years. Departure for the field took place on 

 December 15, 1922. 



Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. 



BIOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN SOUTHEASTERN CHINA 

 In the summer of 192 1 Mr. A. de C. Sowerby returned to China 

 to continue the work of exploration interrupted by the war. This 

 work, which is made possible by the generosity of Mr. Robert S. 

 Clark of New York, will now be carried on in the region south of 

 the Yangtze, and the zoological results will come to the National 



