10 
ZOOLOOY OF THR FAR EAvST. 
December Sth . . Got back to Shanghai and started packing. 
December gth . . Continued packing and worked at sponges collected in the Tai- 
Hu. In the afternoon Dr. A. Stanley took us to see the 
Museum of the Jesuits' College at Zikkawei, some miles out 
of Shanghai. 
December loth . . Went out dredging in the Whangpo River in a launch borrowed 
by Dr. Stanley. 
December nth . . Finished packing collections and working out sponges. 
December 1.2th . . Sailed for Hong Kong on the SS, " Kamo Maru." 
December i^th . . Reached Hong Kong and found a letter from Sir Charles Eliot, 
Vice- Chancellor of the University, asking me to stay in his 
house. In the afternoon went collecting in the small streams 
on the Peak. 
December 16th . . Sailed for Singapore. 
December 21st . . Arrived at Singapore. Arranged with Dr. R. Hanitsch to go 
out on the shore to -look for certain sponges of which speci- 
mens were wanted for the Indian Museum. 
December 22nd . . Examined the collection of Pedunculate Cirripedes in the Raffles 
Museum and went out shore-collecting with Dr. R. Hanitsch 
and his assistants. 
December 2yd--^oth vStayed at the Botanical Gardens, Singapore, and collected there 
daily ; also investigated the lif e- historj^ of the toad Kaloula 
pulchra. 
December "^ist . . Left Singapore by boat for Port Swettenham en route for 
Kaula Lumpur. 
January 1st . . Reached Port Swettenham and was met by Mr. H. C. Robinson. 
Went up by train to Kuala Lumpur and spent the afternoon 
in the Selangor Museum. 
January 2nd . . Went to Batu caves and collected samples of the fauna. 
January yd . . Visited the Federated Malay States Medical Institute and 
examined the collection of parasitic insects. 
■ January 4th . . Left Kuala Lumpur in the morning, accompanied by Mr. 
Robinson, and reached Taiping in the afternoon. Went 
through the Perak Museum with Mr. Robinson and Mr. 
Evans, the Curator. 
January ^th . . Went through collecting apparatus sent on from India and 
made final preparations for Siamese trip. 
January 6th . . Sailed from Port Weld near Taiping with Mr. H. C. Robinson 
on the F.M.S. Fisheries steamer " Shark," which the Feder- 
ated Malay States Government had kindly placed at my 
disposal. Collected sponges at Port Weld while waiting for 
the rise of the tide and dredged off Penang Island. Reached 
Georgetown, Penang, in the evening. 
