October 17, 1917 - (continued) He said no other color existed in this Northernmost range of the Takin. He had about the house a spotted Chinese wildcat which was as tame as any kitten and could be stroked by anyone. He showed us a series of jerboa skins, chipmunks, mice, ew_ apodemus, hamsters, flying squirrels, spermophiles, bats etc. Somerby gave me two recent papers of his on Pere Hende's mammal names which he has been recently concerned with at Li-kai-wei and is the first naturalist to actually examine the type specimens and material gathered by the Jesuit Father. Somerby is a fine type of sportsman, devoted to natural history and in love with the excitement of the chase, a real savage possessed of the noblest sentiments of a hunter. His books on Chinese game are filled with evidence of his intense enthusiasm and love of the chase and natural history. His wife had some pet birds of various sorts in a cage, but said that the Chinese servants showed no interest or kindness towards pet animals and could not be trusted to feed them. This lack of sympathy seems to be characteristic of the Chinese. At 4:45pm we took the train for Peking. Tientsin has a foreign appearance, owing to the rows of European houses and business shops. There is a British, French, Japanese, Italian, and German section, with streets named in these languages. The RR trip to Peking was through fields of millet with sunken or flooded fields at intervals. We reached Peking at 8pm and took room in the Wagon Lit Hotel near the station in the Legation section of the Tartar City, just inside the Great Wall.