I arrived in Chi quite early in the morning, got a room in the Y, and went to bed with a very few dollars in my pocket.

What I find most intriguing is the octopus's ability to adapt to new and unusual circumstances—confinement in a lab—and turn the apparatus around them to their own octopodean purposes. A lot of early octopus work was done in Italy, […]

I would advise you to accept these as an instalment of a volume, (they are not big enough to make one themselves) with the promise that the stories to come should be more striking, more original in theme — not less so, not mere makeweights — than those under consideration.

1. Yongle Temple (Shanxi Province) This temple located in Ruicheng County, in the southwestern corner of Shanxi Province, was originally situated on the banks of the Huanghe River in Yongle, a town bearing the same name as the temple.