Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (5 of 5)
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There are very small study collections of mammals everything going for Phillip in the taxidermy department the men were mounting 2 zebras, a Malay tiger Sumatra species. Mr. Robinson John for Federated Malay States Museum came in & I had a long talk with him about mammals in which he is an expert. He is writing a full account of the mammals of Malay of which he says there are 400 forms. 15 except they are well collected already few new ones to be expected.