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tar kin, and white leopard. Of course I know that some small, unknown specimen 

 may be as .valuable as or more valuable than any of the above, not financially, but 

 s c ientif ic ally . 



Dr. Wetmore has instructed me not to do any archeological excavating at 

 Kiating. I think he is wise in so doing, although I wish the Freer Art Gallery - 

 could send an expedition into Ssechuan. Dr. Wetmore has not said that he wishes 

 me to discontinue the purchase of artifacts that are not expensive and that are 

 worth-while specimens for ethnologists or anthropologists. I shall try to be 

 more careful in these purchases in the future than in the past. 



Next year I hope to take an excursion to the interior of Tibet with my 

 friend, Mr. Edgar, F.R.G.S. A friend has recommended me for an F. E. G. S., but 

 the reply has not yet been received. 



June 15. This has been a very busy day. I have been packing and packing and 

 packing, with the help of the Chinese collectors and Yang Fong Tsang. Incidental- 

 ly, I had two important committee meetings, and a number of callers. I had 

 seven friends to dinner. 



Tomorrow I will mail this diary and a financial report to date. Then I will 

 begin diary number seven, the account of the summer collecting expedition. 



I am not taking the victor talking machine along. I want to cut down ex- 

 penses where I can do so without lessening the results in specimens collected. 



The main obstacle 1 now see to reasonably expense accounts this summer is 

 the fact that food has doubled in price at Yachow and probably at Moupin. I will 

 probably purchase very few artifacts, spending most of the money on the actual 

 task of securing biological specimens. 



David C. Graham, 

 Suifu, Szechuan 

 China 

 J une 13, 1929 



I have tried to have all expenditures to date accounted for, so there would be 

 none included in the summer collecting trip. 



