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Nov. 24. The netter, Yao has returned from Kuanshien with two boxes of insects. Insects are scarce now, but a few are worth having. 

Filled boxes No. 258-9. Kuanshien insects secured No. 10-21, alt. 2000 feet. 

Nov. 25. I am sending the collector, Yao back to Kuanshien to work a couple of weeks. He starts tomorrow. Mailed today four boxes of specimens, two of frogs and two of insects. 

I caught a rare moth today, large in size. I am putting him in a small tin box inside the wooden box. Insects are scarcer now, but some are odd. 

Nov. 29. Dr. Lindsay, dentist, gave me a rare leaf-moth I am forwarding. 

[[underlined]]Li Song Tin,[[/underlined]] the aborigine collector who is sending so many good skins for me, was seriously ill, and would have died if I had not sent him to the hospital for an operation. He is now well and already has started back to collect. 

I expect to start the 24 big boxes of animal skins and bones to Shanghai soon. 

Dec. 3. Friday the big shipment started down the river in the care of Rev. A. P. Quentin. 

Filled Box. No. 260 - water insects. 

I am mailing this diary to the Smithsonian Institution, and will start [[underlined]]another[[/underlined]], Diary C. 

Please give me the scientific names with the numbers of mammals 1248 [[underlined]]to 1262.[[/underlined]] 

David C. Graham