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yesterday afternoon, last night, all day today, and tonight up to eleven 

 o'clock, has been used in this work. How I have the nineteen boxes ready 

 to mil. All of them are zoological or biological specimens. The postmaster 

 says that parcel post packages are getting through to Shanghai. My idea is 

 to get these through before it becomes impossible to do so. The civil war 

 has actually begnm, and it seems to be the universal opinion that things 

 must become worse before they can become better. I think that some of Yang 

 Fong Tsang's specimens v/ill prove to be of interest. 



Dec. 27. Today I mailed nineteen boxes of natural history specimens to the Ameri- 

 can Express Company at Shanghai. 



The aborigine collector returns tomorrow for more collecting. I reckoned 

 accoimts and planned with him. 



?/ord has come that Chen Gih Uen at Yachow has been unfaithful, and has 

 finally quit. 1*11 try to find and train another more faithful collector. 



Dec. 28. Today I purchased a vase probably hundreds of years old, of a type no 

 longer used. I secured it verj^ cheaply, about 25 cents gold. 



Dec. 30. The collector Yang i'ong Tsang has returned to him home with a large trap 

 with which to attempt to trap leopards, which are eating people aroxmd his 



I have paid Dr. Tompkins for all the materials I have bought from his 

 hospital during the past year. He lias written to our treasurer to take that 

 fifty dollars gold off his personal account and put in on the Smithsonian 

 account. This finally straightens out matters with Dr, Tompkins. 



Dec. 31. llaramal Ho. 165. Today purchased some fish, two specimens, and a fox. 

 ^iff-- The bfix is better than most of such specimens secured from hunters. He was 

 killed a short distance from Suifu. I have reshaped the skin some. The 

 hunter is to bring the bones tomorrow. He promises to bring specimens 

 unskinned hereafter, and I can measure them and skin them n^self . 



Jan. 1. I spent most of today on a report letter to Dr. Wetmore and on bringing 

 the accounts up-to-date. The account was number ten. 



I am securing large fish. They are rather expensive. This is a good 

 time of the year to pickle them in formalin. 



Jan. 2. Secured a fine specimen of hare or rabbit. Ilammal 166. 



Jan. 3. The netter Chen Gih Uen writes that he has written to the Smithsonian 

 Institution and to the American Government stating that he lias been treated 

 unjustly by me. He has either been very lazy, or has been doing something 

 else besides collecting. 



home. 



Jan. 4. I took a hunting trip today, securing six birds. Secured some fish. 



