The diary of Edmund Heller, October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918 : covering his return trip from the First Asiatic Expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History
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by Chinese Assistants who Talk English well. They have a good card catalog by authors & subjects. I found quite a number of new books to use on Yun-nan stone in French + German as well as English 13 The steamer Tungchow C.N.C. sailed at 10 A.M. from the French Bund for Tien tsi Bryant, the Editor of the Far Eastern Review was down to see us off & gave me a letter of introduction to a Peking friend. He spoke of some work on traveling ancient cursed cities in desert China. Burnet & wife are there, people I know on board.