'A Journey into Hitherto Unexplored Country: Moving Pictures of the Wild and New Animals: But the Tame Civet Left Behind: Bandits who Missed Booty of $200,000
The work of the China Society of Science and Arts is brought to view once more in the return of Mr. F.
'T, (Ajax) Smith to Shanghai after, an extended period of collecting specimens in Fukien Province at the behest of the Society.
Mr, Smith's former travels Turkestan and Western China, of which he wrote in the "North-
China Daily News," at length will be well remembered by our readers, From that trip he brought back a tame civet, a most engaging beast, but also continued its collecting of zoological specimens with great rapidity. Gatun was reached on June 1 and it was in this district that the largest portion of the 280 mammals and reptiles and the 600 to 600 species of beetles were added to the collections. These specimens will find a repository 'p70 tem. in the Museum of the Royal " Asiatic Society where they will be classified. however, that they wi Of a future China Society Museum, for which plans have already been formed. expe returned, by Mr. G. T. Krainukov' who was sent through the court of the B.-A.T. Company to be official
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