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Thomas Soderstrom, Curator, Botany Department, National Museum of Natural History

J. L. Barnard, Curator of Crustacea, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History

William B. Trousdale, Curator, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History

Tung L. Wu, Chemist, Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies

Richard E. Grant, Curator and Former Chairman, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History.

After arriving in Peking, where they remained for approximately one week, members of the delegation, either together or in separate groups, visited research laboratories, universities, museums, archeological and natural sites in Datong, Qingdao, Xian, Nanjing, Shanghai, Kunming and Guangzhou.  In all of these cities, members of the delegation were received with utmost courtesy and generosity.  Indeed, individually and collectively they were overwhelmed by the attention to detail and the readiness of their Chinese hosts to provide for their creature and intellectual comforts.

A major aim of the visit was to initiate a multi-year research program in the Panda's native habitat and a program of research in China's Western desert.  Both of these projects, of great concern and interest to the Institution, but seemingly not considered timely by the Chinese authorities, were approved in the course of a one-and-a-half hour interview granted by Fang Yie, Vice Premier of the