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May 22. Filled box 295, snails. Box 296, clams, 297 frogs and insects. 

 Purchased %mmal No. 246. 



May 22. I took one anthropological measurement . I spent some time wrapping 

 and labelling boxes of specimens. I went to the postoffice to see if packages 

 could get through to Shanghai. Just now they cannot. 



Filled box 297, bones of mammal specimens. 



Hay 25. Today I spent considerable time packing for the big summer trip, 

 and also drying the mammal skins over the stove. It takes care so as to get 

 them dry, but not to scorch them. Someone brought around a hive cub bear, very 

 small, but it was probably of no special value. u , « 



May 24. The day has been roasting hot. We have wrapped some of the 

 packages to be ready for shipping. 



I took one anthropometrical measurement, and secured some insects. 



A bad accident has happened. The shutter on the Eastman kodak will not 

 work. I will have to send it to Shanghai to repair it, and it cannot get back 

 by summer time. I will try my best to borrow an Ansco kodak from a friend at 

 Kiating. It is the same size as the Smithsonian kodak. It would be very 

 regrettable to take this summer trip without a kodak. 



May 26. Purchased a mammal. Mammal No. 247. 



May 28. I am hiving a very hard time to preserve the mammal skins we have 

 secured recently. I am disappointed a little. The skinner evidently did not get 

 some of the skins free of fat, and the fat has done harm. The skins are preserved 

 as round, not as flat skins. The leopard skin is decaying around two of the feet. 

 This skin should have been a flat skin, with the bones cleaned and laid bare. We 

 will try to do better work in the future, and to learn from this experience. The 

 ears should have been fastened down as they dried. I am very much disappointed 

 with this leopard skin, and am tempted not to send it, but we will learn from this 

 experience. It will help us avoid spoiling more important skins that we may se- 

 cure next summer. 



We have had hard rain several days, but today the weather was clear. 

 May 50. Filled box 298, mammal skins. 



May 31. I hardly dare hope that I have struck a streak of luck. A strong 

 young man is trying the work of netter with the understanding that if he makes 

 good, the job is permanent. He has gone off today to net water insects. I am 

 sending a messenger to make sure Yang Fong Tsang is coming, and the former netter 

 6hen. I have hope that this summer will be one of the most fruitful I have spent 

 in collecting, about twice as fruitful as last summer. 



I am very much disappointed with some of the recent mammal skins. The 



