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238, value $15.00
239 " [[ditto for: value]] 20.00
240 " [[ditto for: value]] 8.00  Bones
241 " [[ditto for: value]] 12.00 " [[ditto for: Bones]]
242 " [[ditto for: value]] 10.00 " [[ditto for: Bones]]

Today Presiden^[[t]] Tsang of the West China Union University went with me to the head military office of the city to help secure a passport that will enable me to ship free of duty the fifteen boxes of mammal skins and bones that I have ready to ship to the Smithsonian Institution. The University is in this way greatly aiding us in our work, and saving us both money and trouble. 

It has been so cold that there have been few night moths. 

Oct. 28, 1933. The netter, Yao has had to go home for a few days to straighten otu [[edit mark for: out]] some financial affairs. 

Recent word tells of serious calamities in the region where we collected last summer. Near the end of August an earthquake did a great deal of damage. Among other things it shook down the cliff on which the town of Dieh Shi^[[|]]or Tieh Shi, northwest of Mowchow, was built, shaken down into the river. With the cliff went the town and its people. The town was destroyed and the rocks damed up the Min River so that it formed a sort of a lake in the Min River Valley above. About two weeks ago the dam broke lose, and the water came rushing down, inundating both banks, washing away houses, drowning hundreds if not thousands, and nearly destroying places like Wei Chow. The