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May 12. The doctor found that the new natter has a bad case of syphilis, 

 so I have paid him off and dropped him. I am sorry, for he seemed a likely 

 person. 



May 13. Called a new man to learn collecting, named Lin. Spent part of 

 the afternoon and an hour after dark teaching him. 



May 14. Cold and rainy all day. Spent much time fixing travel boxes etc. 

 for the summer trip. 



Chen Gifa Uen brought in some specimens. 



The American Express Company reported that it sent a shipment of Specimens 

 via the Sues canal. This might have been a typographical error. I wrote and 

 urged that they send specimens by the speediest route, meaning the speedier 

 route as between the Panama and the Suez. Canal. They have sent a shipment by 

 land across the United States. I am, therefore, telegraphing to send it by the 

 Panama Canal. Mammal 238, mouse. 



April 15. A cold, rainy day when nothing could be collected. I took one 

 anthropometrical measurement, and had the collector work on the travel-boxes 

 to be used this summer. Many of the ropes were worn out and had to be changed . 

 Prepared some films for mailing to Dr. Wetmore . 



May 16. Today the weather cleared up, and tomorrow the insects will be out. 

 It is also rather warmer. Mailed some more films to Dr. Wetmore. 



May 17. Purchased four mammals , a mother and four pups, or kittens . Mammals 

 No* 259-242. 



May 18. At daylight I went to the mountains where a young leopard was 

 trapped in a coal mine. I gave Mm three shots with the 45 revolveA, and one math 

 the Newton high-power rifle. The first shot probably killed him. He was in too 

 helpless a position to be exciting. Many visitors came to see the leopard. 

 Mammal No. 245. 



When farmers or hunters cooperate with you in getting a large mammal, they 

 expect a big reward from you. 



May 19. Secured another mammal. Mammal No. 244. It is different from the 

 one I secured on the seventeenth. 



May 20. Filled box lo. 285, insects. Box No. 284, skeletons. Box 285, bones 

 of young leopard. 



Today the new netter, Lin, said that he could not collect regularly, but 

 only occasionally. So I am not counting on him as a regular collector. I have 

 had a very hard time getting a third person to collect. 



May 21. Filled box 286, frogs. Box 287, insects and eels, box 288, frogs. 



Box 289, snake; box 290, shrimp; box 291, snakes; box 292, forge } 295, insects; 

 Box 294, insects. Secured mammal Ho. 245* a young fox. 



