Edmund Heller - Handwritten China journal, Vol. 4 of 5

One year after setting off with the American Museum of Natural History China Expedition, mammologist Edmund Heller remained a faithful diarist recording all sorts of details of his day to day experience. In this volume, he picks up his notes at the end of June, 1917 in Burma's capital city Rangoon, now Yangon, Myanmar noting the departure of Judge Cotton whose linguistic skill was so well suited for this Asian crossroads and the success of the expedition. Join us and other volunteers as we transcribe these field notes and gain better insight into what it was like to study natural history in China a century ago.