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Please convey this information to Dr. C. L. 
Shear, showing the very wide distri^bution of this 
parasite here in China. 
Dr. G. S. Morrison at Peking, has sold his 
farftous library on Chinese matters to a Japanese 
baron for 135,000. The whole collection will be 
transferred to Tokyo. A great pity this is J Of 
course, China as she is today, could not guarantee 
the safe intact of such a valuable collection; 
her coolie soldiers might burn it at any time. 
Too sad, this death of M. Philippe de VilmorinJ 
And so young yet for a man of his type, 45: I had 
some interesting hours with him at Verrieres le 
BuisBon. 
I am sitting now in a Chinese house, for the 
inn I lived in at first was too noisy and dark 
and there was no room to dry seeds or specimens. 
Some mice are running about, mosquitoes buzz, a 
cricket sings in an old wall and the policeman, 
who is stationed to spy upon me, snores on a 
bench, for it is well into the night. 
Tomorrow we may go to see a lot of wild pear 
trees, l5 miles away from here. 
On September 14, 191?, Mr. Pairchild asked Mr. Meyer to be 
on the lookout for legumes with leaves that had a pleasant 
flavor and if he found such to dry a goodly quantity and 
send them to us for the use of Prof. E. V. McCollum, of the 
School of Hygiene of the Rockefeller Institute in Baltimore^ 
Prof. McCollum's investigations into the food value of the 
alfalfa plant convinced him that it might be possible to 
find a forage crop which could at the same time, by being 
ground into flour and mixed with wheat to the amount of 
?5^, be used for human food. In alfalfa, the peppery flavor 
could not be eliminated, hence the search for other legumes. 
Mr. Meyer wrote on October ?5, 1917, from King men, Hupeh: 
December 31, 1917. 
