Through Shen-Kan is the account of a 1908-09 expedition to the Shensi and Kansu provinces of northern China. The expedition was funded by Robert Sterling Clark, one of the heirs to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. Clark was joined by the...
Birds -- China -- Classification; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945; Pellagra; Emphysema, Pulmonary; Thrushes; Clark, Robert Sterling, 1877-1956 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts; Sowerby, Arthur de Carle, 1885-1954 -- Correspondence -- Manuscripts;
Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in Washington, D.C. to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby informs Clark that he and Mrs. Sowerby have been ill with the flu. Sowerby says that nothing has gone well for him since the Japanese occupation in...