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This will be the largest number of collectors that I have had on one trip. 



The mammals include nos. 249-254. There were ten bird skeletons. 

 Filled box 505, skeletons, box 506, insects, box 507 mammal skins. 



June 10. Filled box 508, pinned insects, box 509, insects, 510 insects, 

 511 insects, 512 snakes, 515 snakes, 514 insects. 



Filled and wrapped boxes 508-514. Prepared nine boxes of specimens for 

 shipping, and took care of other specimens that will have to pickle in formalin 

 until next fall. 



I am now reckoning and accounting for the salaries of the skinner and the 

 aborigine hunter until July first. Tomorrow 1 will mail nine packages, the last 

 before the summer trip, unless I am able to add one or two . 



June 11. Mailed nine packages of specimens, all that have been packed, 

 and the last before the summer excursion. There were a few very interesting 

 snakes and frogs in the lot. 



Spent most of the day packing with the help of Yang Fong Tsang and the 

 new netter Lai. Delivered an address in the church. I found that I did not 

 have a sufficient number of oilcloths to cover the boxes, so purchased some more 

 cloth, and am rapidly making more oilcloths. 



I expect to leave Suifu Saturday, June 16th, making the trip to Moupin i n 

 eleven days, but going on soon westward through the great wooded valley between 

 K^w 8 ! Moupin and Mong Kong or Hang Kong Ting, which is really the great Moupin district, 

 J That will give me about twenty-five days, the longest time I have spent collect- 

 ing, l think, at any one place, i have very high hopes of making this the most 

 fruitful collecting trip that I have yet taken. 



I have five collectors helping me instead of three. One of these is an old 

 friend of mine who is a carpenter. He makes boxes very rapidly, and will make 

 boxes as we need them. He also has a rifle, and will hunt and trap, and help in 

 any way needed. I am taking a larger collecting outfit than on any previous' trip. 



Months ago I sent to the Eastman Kodak Company, at Shanghai for films, but 

 they have not yet reached me. I'll have some sent to mv bv mail. <S 



I am short of ammunition, for the shells sent by the Smithsonian Institution 

 are still at Shanghai. I will not get them until a friend comes along who is 

 willing to bring them along with him. I will save my ammunition and do practically 

 no shooting until we reach the Moupin district. If I use up all my ammunition 

 in the Moupin District, I will think that that is the wisest use to make of it. 

 I will try not to neglect any of the ordinary lines of collecting. Among other 

 things, I will keep my eyes and ears open for white bear, golden-haired monkey, 



