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Box 218 - Insects 

Box 219 - Lizards and Insects

These were wrapped for shipment and labelled. Today I mailed 14 boxes of specimens also filled Box 220, Insects and snakes. 

Sept. 30. Today I mailed all these boxes wrapped yesterday. 

I have still all the mammal skins and skeletons to pack and ship to the Smithsonian Institution. There are more of them than I ever had before at one time. 

Oct. 2. Yesterday the netter Yao came in with a bad case of influenza. I sent him to the hospital. He had written to me from Kuanshien saying that he was very ill, and I had sent a sedan chair after him. He will doubtless recover. Yesterday and today I packed all the mammal skins and mammal skeletons. This is the biggest lot of this kind that I have ever had at one time. I am wondering how in the world I can get them to Shanghai. If a foreign friend were going down it would be easy, but I do not know of anyone who is going down. I have not labelled the boxes yet. 

Oct. 3. Filled box 221 - insects, night-moths, from Chengtu, alt. 1700 feet. Secured Oct 1-3, 1933. 

The full moon is out all night now, so night moth-catching is useless. 

Oct. 8. Today I reckoned up the account for the past three months. It took all day and until nearly midnight. Low exchange and a tremendous collection is using up our balance rapidly.