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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December 17, 1917 I discovered a lantern slide expert, Kanzee on Gerry Street at Market. He has several thousand slides in stock from all parts of the world and I purchased slides of India, Darjeeling, Burma and China from him. December 18, 1917 At 9am, I took the train for Stamford University. The morning was foggy, so I did not see much of the landscape. I had not been at Stamford for 9 years. At the Palo Alto Station, I found a trolley car line to the campus, which was built since my time. I found all the zoology faculty of the old days still in office. Dr. Gilbert, Price, Snyder and Heath and Starks. Fisher was in the East. The families of many of the staff have grown up and departed. Dr. Gilbert's son and his two daughters are married, and Mrs. Gilbert is dead, so Dr. Gilbert now has no home but lives with an old friend. Heath has a son who has just entered the University. Starks has a daughter 17. I lunching with Seal and his wife, who have just come here from Harvard C.M.S. Starks took me home for dinner and later Abrams came and took me in his car to his home on the campus where I spent the night.