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We are above any human habitation and there are woods all 

 around us. Tonight the moths are coming to the lantern so fast that 

 two men cannot catch them as fast as they come* 



Filled Box Ho. 75. Insects caught between the altitudes 

 9000 to 15200 feet. (Dry insects.) 



August 17. ^illed boxes 76-86. Insects secured near W e i Chow. 



Last night we had the largest catch of night moths that we have 

 secured this summer. For awhile two men could not catch all the 

 moths that came. 



This morning we came back to 0 Er, arriving at noon. This after- 

 noon I went hunting and killed a big black bear. We have it partly 

 skinned. 



The bear appeared yesterday and ate a lot of the farmers 1 corn. 

 This afternoon ten natives, several with guns, posted themselves 

 around the forest on the side hill where it was known that the bear 

 was hiding. Three or four of them went through the forest and 

 chased the bear out in the direction where I was waiting with the 

 !Tewt on high-power rifle. After a while he appeared, about 300 yards 

 away, on the side of the mountain. ^he first shot missed but the 

 second killed him dead. He was running when I fired. He rolled to 

 the bottom of the hill and lay in some brush. I went up to him 

 cautiously but he was stone dead. He was a male weighing about 

 300 lbs. It took from four to six men to carry it up the mountain 

 to 0 f Er. The measurements are, 



1, 1540 m.m. 



2, 100 « 



3, 243 9 



Dr. Miller's Scale. 



