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^[[at]] [[strikethrough]]Z[[/strikethrough]]^[[Y]]in Shien wan near Wen Chuan^[[,]] Szechuan, China. Box No. 111, twenty-seven small mammal skeletons; Box No. 112, twenty rat skins; Box No. 113, 29 bird skins. [[underlined]]Mammals No. 1229-1247 are [[/underlined]] larger mammals secured by Yang Fong Tsang and Ho Son Chuen near Wen Chuan Shien at the place called Yin Shin Wan, a small village. 

Filled Box No. 114, mammal skeletons and skulls. 

Box No. 115, snakes, insects bones, and an unborn wild boar. 

With the collectors Pen, San, Ho Son Chuen, and Yao I have worked almost all day up to late tonight taking care of specimens, labelling them and packing them. These Chinese collectors have shown a fine spirit. Today is Sunday but none of us has taken a vacation. 

Four or fi[[strikethrough]]b[[/strikethrough]]^[[v]]e of the mammal skulls disappeared between Wen Chuan and Chengtu. Probably they were either stolen or thrown away to make a lighter load by some coolie or coolies. 

Sept. [[blank space]] The mammal skulls have been found. 

Today we mailed fifty-six boxes of specimens, insects, snakes, frogs, skeletons, and birds. 

The collector, San lost $20 of mine while supervising the stamping of the boxes at the post-office. I let him bear half the loss as a lesson. Somebody stole it from him. 

I have spent almost the entire day on the Smithsonian collection, putting arsenic on the mammal skins, etc. I also reckoned accounts with all the collectors that are here.

Sept. 13. I have taken a short trip to Beh Lub Din, near Pen