prepared the fossils to be shipped to the U.S. for safekeeping until the end of the war. They disappeared in transit, and have not resurfaced.

Only Weidenreich's copies and the research notes of the staff remain as research materials on the fossils. The laboratory is considered to be the precursor of the modern Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.