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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Variety in size from diminutive, hairy like nuts To great spreading One Trichosaurus. Colors ranged from white, yellow, red, & plumcolor No blues were seen. Some of the largest plants spread at 6 feet x bare some trunked so blossomy on a great dome shaped. At the Imperial where I launched I met Cole The Standard Oil who is a director in N.Y. but formerly lived out in Yoboham for the Co. He said he had witnessed Cormorant fishing at Gifer at night by burning torch flames.