This field diary of David Crockett Graham's picks up at the end of Diary III in October 1928 near Suifu (now Yibin) in China. It's not to be mistaken with Diary IV [4] which actually documents a summer trip earlier in 1928. Over the next four months, this educator, missionary and naturalist made several shorter trips to Li Chuang (currently Lizhuang), Yachow (currently Ya'an) and Min River Valley north of Suifu. Graham describes daily activities including the amounts and types of specimens collected or purchased. Mammals, birds, insects, snakes, fish, "water snails", fossils, and more.
Join with others and transcribe the typescript copy of Graham's diary and get a sense of the perspective of this missionary, educator and field collector had of China in the late 1920's. Or read more below for links to earlier diaries that have already been transcribed by other volunteers.
This field diary of David Crockett Graham's picks up at the end of Diary III in October 1928 near Suifu (now Yibin) in China. It's not to be mistaken with Diary IV [4] which actually documents a summer trip earlier in 1928. Over the next four months, this educator, missionary and naturalist made several shorter trips to Li Chuang (currently Lizhuang), Yachow (currently Ya'an) and Min River Valley north of Suifu. Graham describes daily activities including the amounts and types of specimens collected or purchased. Mammals, birds, insects, snakes, fish, "water snails", fossils, and more.
Join with others and transcribe the typescript copy of Graham's diary and get a sense of the perspective of this missionary, educator and field collector had of China in the late 1920's. Or read more below for links to earlier diaries that have already been transcribed by other volunteers.
DIARY NO. I, NOVEMBER 1927 TO JANUARY 1928
DIARY NO. II, JANUARY - MAY, 1928
DIARY NO. III [3], MAY 1928-OCTOBER 1928
DIARY NO. IV [4], JULY 1928 - AUGUST 1928 : SUMMER EXPEDITION TO NINGYUENFU
David Crockett Graham received a B. A. from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, in 1908. Graham then attended Rochester Theological Seminary in New York, where, in 1911, he completed his studies and was ordained into the Baptist ministry. Shortly afterward, Graham entered the service of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, departing for China in the fall of 1911. They first stopped briefly in Shanghai in order to acquaint themselves with the Chinese language and culture. They were further delayed there by the outbreak of the 1911 revolution which toppled the Manchu dynasty. Finally, they arrived in the province of Szechuan (Sichuan), where they were stationed for the next twenty years. In the fall of 1926, Graham pursued a year of doctoral study covering anthropology, ethnology, and psychology of primitive peoples and religions. During the period from 1919 to 1939, Graham made fourteen summer expeditions in Szechuan, the Szechuan-Tibetan region, and the Szechuan-Yunnan region, and several short field collecting trips in the vicinities of Suifu, and Chengtu. The specimens he sent to the USNM were mostly mammals, birds, insects, snakes, and anthropological relics. In addition, he sent anthropological measurements of Chinese people, and Chinese aborigines common in Szechuan such as the Ch'uan Miao, Ch'iang, Lolo, and the Bolstoi people, as well as their costumes and handicrafts. Graham kept diaries detailing his activities, mostly during the 1924 to 1935 period.
