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Nov. 24. The natter, Yao has returned from Kuanshien with two 

 boxes of insects. Insects are scarce now, but a few are worth having . 



billed boxes lo. 258-9. Kuanshien insects secured lo. 10-21, 

 alt. 2000 feet. 



Hov* 25. I am sending the collector, Yao back to Kuanshien to 

 work a couple of weeks. He starts tomorrow. Mailed today four 

 boxes of specimens, two of frogs and two of insects. 



I caught a rare moth today, large in size. I am putting him 

 in a small tin box inside the wooden box. Insects are scarcer now, 

 but some are odd. 



Nov. 29. Dr. Lindsay, dentist, gave me a rare leaf -moth I 

 am forwarding. 



Li Song Tin, the aborigine collector who is sending so manv 

 good skins for me, was seriously ill, and would have died if I had not 

 sent him to the hospital for an operation. He is now well and already 

 has started back to collect. 



I expect to start the 24 big boxes of animal skins and bones to 

 Shanghai soon# 



1)60 ♦ 3 * Friday the big shipment started down the river in the 

 care of Rev. A. P # Quentin. 



Filled Box. Ho. 260 - water insects. 



I am mailing this diary to the Smithsonian Institution, and will 

 start another, Diary C # 



Please give me the scientific names with the numbers of mammals 

 1248 to 1262 . 



David C # Graham 



