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Nov. 10.  Today I purchased for the Smithsonian Institution fifteen artifacts representing past customs and art in China. They are silver body ornaments. ^[[M]] [[underlined]] [[overwritten]] m [[/overwritten]][[/underlined]] ^[[M]]ost of them have on the silver a coating consisting of the bright blue feathers of the small kingfishers found in this country. The styles are rapidly changing. New-styled ornaments are displacing these. In a few years there may be few if any available. Ordinarily one of these would cost two or three dollars each because of the fine workmanship, if not more, but these cost $5.20 Mexican, or $2.60 gold. One ornament alone is more than this in U.S.A. I consider this a real find. 

My year of work ends (my year of collecting at Suifu) on November 14th. I have already filled two hundred boxes of specimens and artifacts, and have materials on hand to fill at least six more. Besides, the results of more than one month of collecting by Chen Gih Uin and still longer by the aborigine Yang Fong Tsang are not in. They should have at least ten more boxes. Box No. 196, contains a Lolo wooden bowl in which food is placed, and two Lolo wooden spoons, decorated. 197, birdskins; 198, vase from a Chinese grave; 199, a larger vase from a Chinese grave. 200, bird and mammal bones.

Nov. 12. Filled box 201, leather garment (Lolo armor, to protect chest and shoulders). 202, Lolo helmet, also leather throat protector and a wrist protector. 203, Lolo helmet and a wrist protector. 204, a lolo armor, chest and abdomen protector, and a dish. The dish is from a Chinese grave, and is about 100 to 300 years old. Box 205, silver ornaments. Box 206, silver ornaments, Chinese and Lolo earrings etc., Box 207, crab, insects.

Nov. 13. Filled box No. 208, two mammals, one birdskin; box 209, one fish; 210, one fossil. Mailed all the specimens on hand, all artifacts, making a total to date of two hundred and ten boxes. Some of these are large and heavy, others small.

Dr. Tompkins arrived at Suifu Sunday, November eleventh.

I have now completed one year of collecting in Suifu. Since I arrived Nov. 14, 1928, and began collecting immediately on arrival. Besides these 210 boxes or cases of specimens, there are some specimens in the hands of Yang Fong Tsang the aborigine collector. He has been collecting all of September and October, and should have some good specimens. Chen Gih Uen is collecting at Yachow, and his collecting is so poor that I may request him to find another job at the end of the month--unless I find that he has gotten better results than I think he has. 

Conditions in this part of Szechuan are better than they were during the first six months of my stay at Suifu.

The securing of mammals has been probably my most difficult work--hardest to secure satisfactory results. I have made arrangements with a Chinese friend to try to secure all kinds of Mammals in a district near Kongshien, south of Suifu, and I hope for better results. He is to try to use the regular hunters who make a business of such things.