Bureau Ho, 
South China Explorations, 
Supplementary Eeport, December 31, 1916. 
Mr. Prank N. Meyer, in charge of this project, was in 
the Washington office from December 5, 1915, until August 
15, 1916, when he left for Seattle, Wash., from which port 
he sailed for Kobe, Japan, on September 20, 1916. It had 
been Mr. Meyer's intention to sail from San Francisco on 
September 10th but he could not get accomodations. In route 
to the PadfB Coast he stopped at Minneapolis, Minn., Mandan, 
N. D., Portland, Talent and Corvallis, Ore., and Bellingham 
and Seattle, Wash. He landed in Yokohama, Japan, on Octo- 
ber 7, 1916. 
Although, as stated in the argument for this South 
China Exploration project, it was planned that Mr. Meyer 
should visit the home of the blight resistant Chinese 
pears in central and northern China before proceeding to 
southern China, it was evident after his conference with 
Mr. Reimer that the securing of large quantities of these 
Chinese pear seeds was of much more importance than had 
been at first realized and that in consequence Mr. Meyer 
would have to devote much time to the region north of Peking 
where the forests of Pyrus ussuriensis occur and to the Up- 
per Yangtse where the Pyrus callery ana with which Mr. Reimer 
is working grows. 
December 31, 1916. 
