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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His wife & small son 7yrs old were at home & showed a very friendly attitude to him & all his interests. His job of Sir Richard Dave who has hunted game in East Africa but is now away from Pebburg being in Mongolia. Tangdon Warner has given up his school of Archaeology & returned to America or Tokyo. Mr. Morrison told me that the Keeper at the Zoo had lost many of the animals originally purchased from Hagenbeck because the Chinese Keepers had stolen the food from the animals & let them starve. The head keeper, a European had gone almost insane trying to prevent this sort of cruelty. The Chinese