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May 11. Labelled box 576, insects. 



May 12. Mailed two boxes specimens, wrote letters re collecting. 

 Purchased mammal No. 411, worked over accounts. 



May 16 . This week our time is taken up with conferences and committee 

 meetings in connection with the visit of our Foreign Secretary, Doctor Franklin. 

 He has tried to get me to cut out my trip to Tibet next summer, but I have not 

 consented. He is a most likeable man, but he has not a great deal of sympathy 

 with research, especially in the line of natural history. 



May 19. Purchased a large elephant-nosed fish, the first caught 

 here for over a year. I'll skin it and send it to the Smithsonian. 



Our secretary has tried to get me to practically drop my interest in 

 natural science, but I have not consented to do so. 



May 21. Bought a young owl. Packed box no. 577, fish, 578, mammal 

 skin and snuff bottle. Mailed letter to Doctor Wetmore. 



May 22. Purchased one rice-paddy hen. 



May 24. Purchased yesterday two owls of a very large variety, the 

 largest I have ever seen in Szechuan . They were captured in a nest on a high 

 cliff 80 li west of Suifu. Today I purchased mammal no. 412. 



May 25. Packed box 579. Fish and backbone to large elephant-nose fish. 



May 26. Purchased a mammal, No. 415. 



May 27. Purchased some fish, and packed one box of specimens. Box 580, 

 bird skins, box 581, skeletons. 



May 28. Purchased mammal no. 414, a fox, and an eel, mammal 415. Mailed 

 three boxes of specimens. 



May 29. Today I began packing for the Tatsienlu trip. 

 May 31. Purchased mammal 416 and some fish. 



