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Jan. 23. I managed to find time to label and rewrap all the birds and 

 some of the mammals secured. on Mt. Omei. Spent some time getting rid of the 

 maggots on the wild boar skeletons. Mammals nos. 357 to 368 are all from Mt. 

 Omei and Kiating. There are some very nice-looking birds, but the mammals, 

 outside the wild boars, are rather commonplace* 



Jan. 24. Very busy with conferences, but managed to find time to go 

 over the rest of the specimens with Yang and Ho. 



On the 26th of November they collected a tiny snake. They say it was snow- 

 ing on the day when they caught this snake and that the altitude is probably 5000 

 feet or over. This story seems almost too strange to be true, but they declare it is 

 true • 



I reckoned accounts with Yang Fong T S ang so that he could go home and col- 

 lect there during the next month. 



Jan. 28. Purchased a large mammal , mammal no. 369. 



Jan. 30. We are in the midst of foreign conference, ^uring the past 

 two weeks I have been very busy, since I have had to attend conferences and enter- 

 tain guests, without my good wife to take the entertainment off my hands. The 

 specimens taken on the recent collecting trio to ?!f\ Omei by Ho and Yang must be 

 left here until my return from Chengtu. I must go to Chengtu to have dental work 

 done. We leave Saturday and it will hustle me to get ready. 



Jan. 31. Conference closed today. Sessions took up to ten o'clock. I 

 worked until 3 A. M. getting ready for the Chengtu trip before getting to bed. 



Feb. 1. W e travelled to Lin Shih Pien. I hunted on shore, but got 

 nothing. I shot at a flock of large gray cranes, but they were too far away and 

 the ammunition was damp . 



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Feb. 2. We travelled as far as Gioh Chi. 



Feb. 3, We reached Yoh Bo. We are making rather slow progress • 



