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were gotten right here in my home, but if I tell the doctor, he and others will 

 make it an excuse to keep me back from the Tatsienlu trip, so I am keeping it 

 to myself and healing or doctoring myself. 



June 14. The carpenter is making boxes for specimens. 



Today I took seven anthropometric al measurements, completing the first 

 two hundred. I have copied them, and am sending them to Doctor Hrdlicka. The 

 netter got some good moths. It is getting hot. 



June 15. This morning I got up and started at 5 A. M. for Beh Son Chi 

 40 li walking all the way. I reached there at eight o 1 clock. Then I took a boat 

 and returned to Suifu, arriving at 12 M. In the afternoon I attended a feast 

 where there were some officials and some girl students of the government normal 

 school. I gave an address on the life of American women. They were much in- 

 terested. It rained on the way to Beh Son Chi, and the netter Giang became sick 

 this afternoon, so we got few specimens. I bought three young wild rabbits, 

 mammals nos. 421-423. 



June 15. The netter Giang worked most of the day, but got only a fair 

 catch. It rained in the afternoon. In the evening I had him practice with the 

 gasolene lanterns, especially lighting them. 



I purchased another small rabbit, mammal no. 424, and a bird. I did a 

 little packing, preparing for the trip to Mt. Omei and Tatsienlu. Tonight it is 

 raining hard. If the rain should keep up long enough, it might save this district 

 from a rice crop failure. 



I want to render one more collecting account before leiving. 



There is a flash-light in the Smithsonian collecting outfit. I took it 

 on the street today, and tried to purchase the electric fillers. The flash-light 

 is out of order and will not work. 



