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.

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.