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Smithsonian Notes David C. Graham -4- future. I had a long talk with the leader today. Ho and Yang are due soon. A friend has agreed to take my specimens to Shanghai and turn them over to the American Express Company. Feb. 28. I went out with a student to teach him to net. His name is Pen, and he wants to collect for me regularly. March 3. Pen netted but got only some "grand-daddy long legs." I telegraphed to Chingtsin for three kerosene lanterns and two gasolene lanterns. I expect to push the collection from this time with vigor. March 6. I have begun training a new netter, Mr. Yao. Today it was cold and we caught almost no insects. I have had six tin insect or cyanide cans made for future use. Glass bottles are expensive and will break. March 7. The netter has caught a fine lot of small diptera. March 8. Today Yao got very little and I gave him some more instructions and jacked him up. March 11. The coolie Yao is collecting daily but has not learnt the trick well yet. The student Pen collected this afternoon and did well. Another student, San, collected water insects. He got mostly shrimp and only worked about an hour or two. Ho and Yang have not appeared yet, although they are now overdue. I am writing to Suifu about them. [[check mark in left margin]] March 12. I am numbering the white panda skeleton and skin 1118, and the skin without a skeleton 1119. I am calling carpenters to fix boxes in which to ship them to Shanghai. I am numbering a box of insects, Box 19. [[check mark in left margin]] March 16. Filled Box 20 with the two panda skins and Box 17 with the panda skeleton. I will send these to a friend who goes down the river about May 1st. The netter got a large number of small insects today. March 18. I have had two netters working today. They got a lot of insects but not a large variety. Mar. [[strikethrough]]8[[/strikethrough]]^[[6]], 1933. Yang Fang Tsang and Ho, the skinners, are back. Yang had a son born and he died just before he was to start to Chengtu. Dr. Crook writes from [[strikethrough]]Chengtu[[/strikethrough]]^[[Yachow]] that he is forwarding all the skins, etc., he has for me. Mar. 27, 1933. A cold, rainy day. The netter got little. I spent considerable time today getting passports for Yang and Ho for their trip collecting west of Kuanshien. I spent the whole evening getting their outfit ready and reckoning accounts. Mar. 28. Ho and Yang have started on their collecting trip. This morning I went and interviewed Gen. Den Shih Ho and secured a passport for Ho and Yang, so their gun and ammunition would not be taken away from them. Today was rather cold so the netting was poor. [[check mark in left margin]] Mar. 31. I bought a young black bear and have had him skinned. I am preserving the complete skeleton, Mammal 1120. The skinner made the mistake of cutting the gristle out of the ears.
