NO. 17 



SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I916 



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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. t^J). 

 At Parigi he intended to secure al)out 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. Miller, Jr. ,; 



Fig. iJ. — AJy cart and horses on the road to Tondano. In this way 1 traveled 

 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 191 5 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 



