Books

History of the Ninth U.S. Infantry, 1799–1909
Fred R. Brown
Chicago: R. R. Donnelly & Sons Co., 1909
Harvard Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Military Order of the Dragon, 1900–1911
Washington, D.C.: Press of B. S. Adams, 1912
U.S. Army Military History Institute Library, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

A Naturalist’s Note-book in China
Arthur de Carle Sowerby
Shanghai: North-China Daily News & Herald, Ltd., 1925
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives

Notes of Military Interest for 1901
Compiled and arranged by Capt. E. A. Edwards, Capt. J. S. Herron, First Lieut. H. B. Ferguson, and Second Lieut. R. S. Clark
Washington, D.C.: United States Adjutant General’s Office, 1902
U.S. Army Military History Institute Library, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Sowerby of China: Arthur de Carle Sowerby, F. R. G. S., F. Z. S
Richard Raine Sowerby
Kendal: Printed by T. Wilson, 1956
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives

Through Shên-kan: The Account of the Clark Expedition in North China, 1908–9
Robert Sterling Clark and Arthur de C. Sowerby
London and Leipzig: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

Mandarin critical edition of Through Shên-kan: The Account of the Clark Expedition in North China, 1908–9
Robert Sterling Clark and Arthur de C. Sowerby
Edited and translated by Shi Hongshuai
Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific and Technological Literature Publishing House, 2010

Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China: During the Years 1844–1846. 2 vols.
Evariste-Régis Huc, translated by William Hazlitt
London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives

Views of the North China Affair
Tokyo: S. Yamamoto, 1904
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives

Scientific bulletins

Description of a New Dryonastes from China
J. H. Riley
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 24 (February 1911)
Loaned by Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

Four New Chinese Mammals
Gerrit S. Miller, Jr.
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 24 (February 1911)
Loaned by Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C

A New Carnivore from China
Gerrit S. Miller, Jr.
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, vol. 38 (August 1910)
Schow Science Library, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

A New Roe-Deer from China 
Gerrit S. Miller, Jr.
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 24 (November 1911)
Loaned by Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C

Periodical journal entries

Review of Through Shên-kan by Robert Sterling Clark and Arthur de C. Sowerby 
W. R. C.
Geographical Journal, 41, no. 3 (March 1913)
Harvard Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Review of Through Shên-kan by Robert Sterling Clark and Arthur de C. Sowerby 
William Churchill
Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, 47, no. 1 (1915)
Harvard Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Unexpected Rendezvous 100 Years After Through Shên-kan
Li Ju
Chinese National Geography, no. 597 (July 2010)

Photographs

Battlefield at Tientsin
1900
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives

Sterling Clark with His Friend Robert Peck in Beijing
1903
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives

Expedition Photographs

Loaned by Smithsonian Institution Archives

Woman with Headdress in Zhenyuan Xian, Gansu
SIA Image #2008-2988

View of the City of Lanzhou, Capital of Gansu Province
SIA Image #2008-3120

Pi Jung-pei, Head of the Police in Yulin, Shaanxi
SIA Image #2008-3132

Representation of Buddhist Hell in the Lung-wang Temple at Yan’an, Shaanxi
SIA Image #2008-3139

Cave Temple (Song Dynasty) at Yan’an, Shaanxi
SIA Image #2008-3130

Arthur de Carle Sowerby with a Mountain Sheep
SIA Image #2008-3152

Great Wall near Yulin with Shepherd and Sheep in Foreground
SIA Image #2008-3141

Stele near Dadu Mountain, Shanxi province
SIA Image #2008-3026

Manuscript Maps, drawn by Arthur de Carle Sowerby

Loaned by Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

District Explored
Map prepared by Sowerby to accompany his field notes, sent with animal specimens to the Smithsonian, spring 1909

Return Route of Sowerby and Grant
Map prepared by Sowerby to accompany the specimens sent to the Smithsonian in November 1909

Mammal and bird specimens

All specimens loaned by Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

Azure-winged Magpie
(Cyanopica cyana)
Collected January 12, 1909, twelve miles south of Yan’an, Shanxi Province

Bat
(Eptesicus serotinus pallens)
Collected August 1, 1909, near Guyuan, Gansu Province

Bengal Cat
(Prionailurus bengalensis)
Collected January 19, 1909, at Yan’an, Shaanxi Province

Boar
(Sus scrofa)
Collected August 22, 1909, Yan’an, Shanxi Province

Chinese Striped Hamster
(Cricetulus barabensis)
Collected November 18, 1908, near Yulin, Shaanxi Province

Golden Eagle
(Aquila chrysaetos)
Collected in 1909, locale unknown (possibly Gansu Province, south of Lanzhou)

Kangaroo Rat
(Allactaga sibirica)
Collected July 27, 1909, at Jingning, Gansu Province

Kingfisher
(Alcedo atthis bengalensis)
Collected August 12, 1909, fifteen miles east of Qingyang, Gansu Province

Mouse
(Apodemus draco)
Collected March 2, 1909, near Xi’an, Shaanxi Province

Ring-necked Pheasant
(Phasianus colchicus)
Collected November 12, 1908, in the mountains between Taiyuan and Yulin

Other Objects

From the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives unless otherwise noted.

Christmas Card from A. d.C. Sowerby to Sterling Clark, December 15, 1953, enclosing scientific bulletin of Pomatorhinus erythrogenys sowerbyi (rusty-cheeked scimitar babbler) from proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 65 (August 1952)

Clark’s Field Notebook

Letter from Sterling Clark to A. d.C. Sowerby, March 11, 1924

Memorandum, Smithsonian Institution, from William Ravenel to Richard Rathbun, April 1, 1909
Loaned by Smithsonian Institution Archives

Clark’s Pistol
c. 1903

Clark’s Rifle

Sheets of Astronomical Observations

Surveying and Astronomical Observation Equipment and Drafting Tools
Level Rod
Measuring Tape
Planisphere
Rulers and French Curve
Scale and Weights
Stopwatches
Surveyor’s Transit and Tripod
Trunks for Transporting Stopwatches and Transit

Clark’s Uniform Hat

Clark’s U.S. Army Certificate of Promotion
March 14, 1901

Clark’s U.S. Army China Campaign Medal
Awarded to Sterling Clark for service in China, 1900