August 3, 1917] 



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I do not hesitate in saying that this is the finest 

 series of these rare animals in any museum of the 

 world. It is quite a different species from those 

 we shot in the north. A few days ago I had the 

 good fortune to shoot a splendid coal-black serow 

 — an animal quite unlike the serows of the Thibetan 

 border and exceedingly rare in this region. We 

 have also arranged to buy a fine male serow from 

 Fukien Province. This gives us six of these strange 

 animals of three different species. We have a 

 very large sambur (Husa) stag in perfect moimt- 

 able condition, ten red barking deer {Cervulas) and 

 two of the very rare blue, or crested, mimtjacs 

 {Elaphodus). The collection contains twenty-five 

 monkeys of five species and four genera. Two 

 species of gibbons (Hylohates), one very small 

 yellow one, and another large black variety, as well 

 as eleven large gray monkeys (Semnopithecus) of 

 all ages and sexes. Six or seven baboons of two 

 species. Of medium-sized carnivores we have 

 about 50 — especially Viverrines, and one fine 

 leopard. 



The large mammals of this province, as indeed 

 throughout all China, aie by no means abundant, 

 and are in widely separated districts, so that we 

 feel we have a fairly good proportion. The col- 

 lection of small mammals is especially rich in In- 

 sectivores, and I believe that some, remarkable 

 types will be found among them. 



The collection of skeletons comprises all species 

 of large or medium sized mammals, and specimens 

 of each species of small mammal in formalin. Also 

 foetal examples of gibbon, goral, muntjae, langur, 

 baboon, etc., in formalin. 



We collected birds whenever we were not occu- 

 pied with mammals and during our long journeys 

 between collecting points. About one third of the 

 collection is from Fukien Province and the re- 

 mainder from Yunnan. 



Neither Mr. Heller nor myself has ever been in 

 siich a poor reptile country. Some five months of 

 the trip, while we were in the north, the weather 

 was so cold that no reptiles at all were to be found. 

 Those we have collected were mostly taken during 

 the few months of our southern trip. 



The photography of the expedition will, I be- 

 lieve, prove of extraordinary value and interest, 

 comprising, as it does, motion film, natural color 

 and black and white negatives. The Paget color 

 plates will be especially interesting, and have not, 

 I believe, ever been used upon an expedition of 

 this character before. The motion film shows the 

 general life of the people along the Thibetan 

 border and in the far south, and, since it was de- 

 veloped in the field, the success of the film, from a 

 technical standpoint, is assured. 



We have met with the greatest courtesy from all 

 ofScials with whom we have come in contact. The 

 Chinese government has granted willingly every 

 request which we have made, and French and Brit- 

 ish ofiicials have given us free entry of goods, re- 

 duced freight rates and assisted in various other 

 ways. 



Mr. Andrews will leave Mr. Heller at 

 Bhamo and proceed to Calcutta, where he ex- 

 pects to spend a week or ten days at the 

 museum comparing a selected series of his 

 collection of small mammals with those ob- 

 tained by the Anderson Yunnan Expedition 

 in 1875 — the only other expedition which has 

 ever collected in that province. He will then 

 go to Colombo and tranship for Hong Kong — 

 a journey of twenty days or more. From 

 Hong Kong, Mr. Andrews will return direct 

 to JSTew York, arriving about the end of Sep- 

 tember or the first of October. Mr. Heller 

 will probably spend some time traveling in 

 India, but wall no doubt reach New York 

 about the same time. 



WAR SERVICE OF CHEMISTS 



Dr. Julius Stieglitz, president of the Amer- 

 ican Chemical Society, and Dr. Charles L. 

 Parsons, secretary, have, under date of July 

 24, addressed the following letter to the mem- 

 bers of the American Chemical Society: 



In accordance with the resolutions passed by the 

 society at the Kansas City meeting, the ofiicers of 

 your society have been urging the government that 

 chemists, as in England, Canada and France, be 

 used for chemical service in the war, either in the 

 employ of the military branch, of the other gov- 

 ernment branches, or of necessary industries. A 

 special committee was organized by your presi- 

 dent, consisting of Dr. W. H. Nichols, chairman, 

 Drs. M. T. Bogert, A. A. Noyes, your secretary 

 and your president, to lay definite recommenda- 

 tions before the authorities. These have been pub- 

 lished in the July number of the Journal of Indus- 

 trial and Engineering Chemistry. 



The government, it appears, has decided that 

 . there will be no general exemption of any class of 

 men as a class — for reasons which are eminently 

 wise and necessary at the present moment. At 

 the same time, no doubt, it is anxious to see every 

 man used in what appears to it to be the right 

 place for him. It has seemed pei-haps best to make 

 no general ruling whatsoever, except to the effect 

 that there will be no class exemptions, and to leave 



