November 8, 1917 This afternoon, I made a visit to Mr. Francis Ormiston's office at 40 Yamachita-cho, Yokohama. His brother, who is recently deceased, collected natural history specimens by purchasing from natives, but failed to sell all of them at the time of his death. He at one time sold a lot of mammals from Hainan Island collected there by a Japanese. The collection left consisted of several hundred jars of sucker lizards, turtles, corals, sea worms, crytacea in formalin, and cases of bird skins. These Ormiston is anxious to sell for the benefit of the widow, who is in need of money. Ormiston knew of no local sportsmen who have hunted big game in Korea or Japan. Yesterday, I called at the American Consulate and found the Consul General out. The Vice-Consul, Hitchcock, would not endorse my check for $200.00 on the National Metropolitan Bank, although I showed him a T.R. letter of recommendation. He is considered OK here, but it is against the office rules. Today I called on the Manager of the International Banking Corporation, and he also refused to cash any check unless endorsed by a local resident known to him, although I flashed my T.R. letter on him.