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Stein, B.R.
1988
3 Aug. an hour after he put them up + then left them
all night. Can't believe he's letting stuff go -
he says they're so common in Yunnan! Hope
we can change his mind. He wants everything
live for ectoparasites and may frown on our
snap trapping. Graham (thinkling got one
Niviventor on traps we set at the last minute
under the bridge by the main building. He
wants guts, I'll tissue + then pickle.
We are definitely not in primary forest altho we did
seem to drive through such an area about 10min.
before arriving here. Also the Institute has control
over such an area which they did/would not even
let us look at last year but are willing to this
year. Nothing will probably be done until Wudelin
gets here tonite. Art is now negotiating to get
some lab space set up so we can begin processing
animals. With the Chinese everything is one delay
after another.
The area where our traps were set has palms,
6' grasses, and rubber trees being tapped. The
bat nets went up in an area that had been cleared.
At 2:30 we were to go to 1° forest - instead got a
tour of rubber, tea, coffee trees in the experimental
station. Were finally taken to a small area of
2° forest to trap. Set out Shermans, Victors,
Museum specials + one (g.) high bat net. Won't be