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The following is the affidavit of the officers of the S.S. 
Peng Yang Maru, subscribed and sworn to -the 5th day of 
.Tune, 1918, before Mr. B. P. Tenney, the Consul in Shanghai: 
An American by the name of Frank K. Meyer, 
travelling from Hankow to Shanghai by the S.S. 
Feng Yang Maru, Chinese first class room No. 6, 
• disappeared from his room about 11:P0 on the 
night of June 1st, 1918. No trace of him could 
be found, the ship being searched below and 
above and all along the guards and rails to 
see if there v/as any mark or trace of him left, 
but none was found. The position of the ship at 
this time was abreast of Barker Island light boat. 
The occurrence v/as. reported to the Wuhu Harbor- 
• master and also telegraphed to the American Con- 
sul at Nanking from V/uhu. 
We, the undersigned, to hereby make affidavit 
that the above statement is true to the best of 
our knov/ledge and belief and that it is a correct 
translation of the ship's log of that date. 
V/e notified Mr. Meyer's father by cable and by letter 
of the death of his son, but up to the time of writing this 
report no reply had been received from him. We also sent 
a copy of the Consul's report to the American Security and 
Trust Company, of this city, which Company vms Mr. Meyer's 
financial representative. The Office held a memorial meet- 
ing at Mr. Fairchild's residence on the evening of July 31, 
1918, when Mr. Fairchild gave a short talk on Mr. Meyer's 
work and shov/ed a niimber of lantern slides made from Mr. 
Meyer's photographs. He also read the following clause 
from Mr. Meyer's will; 
Unto David Fairchild, or such other 
person as may then be in charge of the 
Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Intro- 
duction, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, » 
September PI, 1918. 
