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■useless. Today I am sending a messenger to get a young man I know, hoping that 

 he will be all right. 



It is reported that steamers will be coming soon, and then it should be 

 possible to forward the next shipment of specimens. 



Filled box No. 274, a large salamander, length 111.8 mm, 44 inches, breadth 

 of head 18.5 mm. 



April 19. Chen Gin Uen, our netter for several years, came in today with 

 five large bottles and eight small bottles of specimens, and one box of insects. 

 I paid him about t?/o dollars and five cents gold, and he is satisfied. At Y achow 

 he secured about the same number of specimens in one month, and he received about 

 seven times as much pay for it as wages and food account. There is no doubt that 

 he clayed possum at lachow. He is going with me on the collecting expedition, and 

 I can then watch him all the time and get very good work out of him. H e is not 

 on salary now, and is merely paid a small amount for the specimens he brings in. 

 I am trying hard to find a netter that I can keep on time all the year. 



Filled box no. 275 mammal skins and skeleton. B 0 x Ho. 276, 277, 278, con- 

 taining fish specimens. 



P. Mm This afternoon a young fellow came in who wants to learn be be a 

 netter, I am going to try him out. 



This afternoon I took another anthropometric al measurement. 



April 21. Spent much time copying Chinese male anthropometric al measurements 

 51-75 for Dr. Hrdlicka. The work is unfinished. 



I took the new netter out to give him some training eat netting insects. 



April 25, I have taken a short trip to Li Chuang. Secured two birds and 

 some insects. 



It is now certain that civil war has actually begun in Szechuan Province. 



April 24. Mail has not gotten through from Shanghai for one month, probably 

 because of warfare at Hankow and at Jeha ng. Ick^^-^ 



April 24. Today the he?/ collector, Shiao, aged 16, having been put up to it 

 by the older collectors, struck for the same pay the older and more experienced 

 collectors are getting. I told him that as he learned and gained experience I 

 would add, but I would not add to his wages on any other basis — that if he did. not 

 want to do the job under that understanding, he could return home • He decided to 

 continue. I am really training and trying out two new collectors paying the two 

 of them "put together 11 about what I was paying Chen Gih Uen before he was taken 

 off the salary list. 



Today I purchased four vases made out of the tree-stalks of fern-trees, which 

 are found only in a locality near Suifu. Since they are rather heavy, I shall 

 probably send only one to the Smithsonian institution ♦ t 



