But this plan is manifestly too expensive and troublesome to meet with much encouragement in the merchant service —a yard-rope being also requisite, in case of sending the yard up or down.

The holotype is double mounted (minuten pin in a block of plastic), is in excellent condition, and is deposited in the USNM.

We labyrinthed through it, meeting scores of panty-clad and moccasined Indians and barefoot women and girls toiling marketward under atrocious burdens; for the day was Sunday.

In 1968 fossils of Gigantopithecus which lived over a million years ago were found in Hupeh province. Some of these were found in a heap of “dragon bones” of a purchasing station for traditional medicine in Patung county of Hupeh province.