To spend a couple of months hunting and collecting in Fukien' Province, Mr. A. de C. Sowerby has left Shanghai for Foochow. He intends spending his time in' the mountainous districts to the north of that city, as well as making a trip into the tiger-ridden district to the south.
He expects to meet two other biologists, namely Prof. C. R. Kellogg and Prof. F. 8. Light, of Fukien Ohristign University and Amoy University, respective ly, and they will join forces in' scouring these regions for the various forms of animal life that abound, Mr. Sowerby's work of collecting in China for the United States National Museum has been badly interrupted owing to the increase of lawlessness in the country, but this enabled him td inaugurate his new publication "The China Journal of Science and Arts," which is now thoroughly established and flourishing.
He will devote his time from! now on og much as possible to completing the programme of thoroughly exploring South China which he had mapped out when he came back to' China two years ago. He is devoting a lot of time to Fukien province (this being hig third expedition there), as he considers it the most important, biologically, of all those south of the Yangtze.
Mr. Sowerby is taking the Chinese assistant of the RB. A. 8. Museum with him, to add to the collection of that institution.
We are informed that the National Students' Federation has now decided to hold its annual conference at Canton on August 10 next.
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