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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we founder giant China as guard. He was 8 feet Tall apparently where photographed him. Notbroth was a guard also + well over 6 feet high. The animals were a few deer, mupite, Apis, rose etc a zebra, elephant, 'Nilgai', Leopard, jaguar, lion, panther, birds of many species. Unimportant not many Chinese species were exhibited but only foreign animals. The Botanic gardens had half a dozen labelled foreign Trees (prag chiefly) + was a poor display for so rich a land as China in flowers & trees