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send these heavy packages clown in the care of foreign friends who are going to 

 Shanghai . 



Jan. 15. Secured mammal no. 336, a mole. 



Jan. 16. Filled box no. 490, skeletons, and mailed it. Lai gathered 

 some water insects. It is so cold that he cannot keep this work up very long. 

 Lai is to go home for a short vacation, but while gone he will trap small mammals. 

 It has turned cold again. 



Jan. 17. B OU g h t lumber to make boxes, and called a carpenter. Bought 

 some Palmolive soap for presents on the next summer trio. I called a carpenter to 

 make boxes for specimens. 



Jan. 18. B ought twelve small birds that a farmer had killed. I thought 

 they would, be of some use. I persuaded the farmer to release the thirteenth bird, 

 which was alive and uninjured, for we had plenty of that species. 



Tang and Ho arrived today with three wild boar and some other specimens. 

 It was so cold that they were unable to do a great deal during the last few weeks. 

 I want to send them to Mupin so as to get specimens of the white pandat before 

 summer. 



My Lolo friend, Mr. Li, is now in Suifu. I had a good visit with him 



tonight. 



Yang Fong Tsang has bad eves, which will have to be cured. 



Jan. 19. Reckoned with H 0 and Yang. They got nine big birds, 101 small 

 birdskins, 54 bird skeletons, 27 small mammals, and three wild boar. They would 

 have done better had it not been for the severe cold. They also secured a tiny 

 snake which they say came out in winter time at a high altitude, and a strange Jell. 



Jan. 22. Purchased three birds, one a small owl. 



I am very busy with Conference. The specimens are all in a safe place, 

 but I do not have time to finish them upland ship them off. 



