David Crockett Graham picks up right where he left off in Diary No, 6. This field book, labeled by Graham as Diary No. 7, documents his work from 14 June to 14 August 1929. This time includes an expedition to Mupin and collecting trips in the Suifu (currently Yibin) vicinity. True to form, his entries record daily activities, amounts and types of specimen collected or purchased and their elevations and localities. A collector, educator and missionary, Graham includes some ethnological and anthropological research done are found in his entries.
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David Crockett Graham picks up right where he left off in Diary No, 6. This field book, labeled by Graham as Diary No. 7, documents his work from 14 June to 14 August 1929. This time includes an expedition to Mupin and collecting trips in the Suifu (currently Yibin) vicinity. True to form, his entries record daily activities, amounts and types of specimen collected or purchased and their elevations and localities. A collector, educator and missionary, Graham includes some ethnological and anthropological research done are found in his entries.
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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.