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were gotten right here in my home, but if I tell the doctor, he and others will make it an excuse to keep me back from the Tatsienlu trip, so I am keeping it to [[whiteout]]to[[/whitout]] myself and healing or doctoring myself.

June 14. The carpenter is making boxes for specimens.

Today I took seven anthropometrical measurements, completing the first two hundred. I have copied them, and am sending them to Doctor Hrdlicka. The netter got some good moths. It is getting hot.

June 15. This morning I got up and started at 5 A.M. for Beh Son Chi 40 li walking all the way. I reached there at eight o'clock. Then I took a boat and returned to Suifu, arriving at 12 M. In the afternoon I attended a feast where there were some officials and girl students of the government normal school. I gave an address on the life of American women. They were much interested. It rained on the way to Beh Son Chi, and the netter Giang became sick this afternoon, so we got few specimens. I brought three young wild rabbits, mammals nos. 421-423. 
        
June 15. The netter Giang worked most of the day, but got only a fair catch. It rained in the afternoon. In the evening I had him practice with the gasolene lanterns, especially lighting them.
      
I purchased another small rabbit, mammal no. 424, and a bird. I did a little packing, preparing for the trip to Mt. Omei and Tatsienlu. Tonight it is raining hard. If the rain should keep up long enough, it might save this district from a rice crop failure.
    
I want to render one more collecting account before leaving.
    
There is a flash-light in the Smithsonian collecting outfit. I took it on the street today, and tried to purchase the electric fillers. The flash-light is out of order and will not work.