-29- 



Box 218 - Insects 



Box 219 - Lizards and Insects 



These were wrapped for shipment and labelled* Today I mailed 

 14 "boxes of specimens also filled Box 220, Insects and snakes. 



Sept. 30. Today I mailed all these boxes wrapped yesterday. 



I have still all the mammal skins and skeletons to pack and ship 

 to the Smithsonian Institution. There are more of them than I ever 

 had before at one time. 



Oct. 2. Yesterday the netter Yao came in with a bad case of 

 influenza. I sent him to the hospital. H e had written to me from 

 Kuanshien saying that he was very ill, and I had sent a sedan chair 

 after him. He will doubtless recover. Yesterday and today I packed 

 all the mammal skins and mammal skeletons, ^his is the biggest 

 lot of this kind that I have ever had at one time. I am wondering 

 how in the world I can get them to Shanghai . If a foreign friend 

 were going down it would be easy, but I do not know of anyone ^ho 

 is going down. I have not labelled the boxes yet. 



Oct. 3. Filled box 221 - insects, night -moths, from Chengtu, 

 alt. 1700 feet. Secured Oct 1-3, 1933. 



The full moon is out all night now, so night moth- catching is 

 useless. 



Oct. 8. Today I reckoned up the account for the past three 

 months . It took all day and until nearly midnight. Low exchange 

 and a tremendous collection is using up our balance rapidly. 



