-31- 



238, value #15.00 



239 



20.00 



240 



?! 



8.00 



Bones 



241 



ft 



12.00 



r? 



242 



10.00 



Today Presidents sang of the West China Union University went 

 with me to the head military office of the city to help secure a 

 passport that will enable me to ship free of duty the fifteen boxes 

 of mammal skins and bones that I have ready to ship to the Smithsonian 

 Institution, The University is in this way greatly aiding us in our 

 work, and saving us both money and trouble. 



It has been so cold that there have been few night moths. 

 Oct. 28, 1933, The netter, Yao has had to go home for a few 

 days to straighten cku) some financial affairs. 



Sec en t word tells of serious calamities in the region where we 

 collected last summer, lear the end of August an earthquake did a 

 great deal of damage. Among other things it shook down the cliff on 

 which the town of Dieh Shi or Tieh Shi, northwest of Mowchow f was 

 built, shaken down into the river. With the cliff went the town and 

 its people. The town was destroyed and the rocks darned up the Min 

 River so that it formed a sort of a lake in the Min River Valley above. 

 About two weeks ago the dam broke loose, and the water came rushing 

 down, inundating both banks, washing away houses, drowning hundreds if 

 not thousands, and nearly destroying places like Wei Chow. The 



