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Eventually we arived in Rio, where Afranio met us with 

 Lucia, his lovely young wife, and his children. It was a 

 joy to be together again, after several years. Rosamond 

 and the girls stayed in Rio, but Afranio and I went on 

 to Sao Paulo. He was then Director of the Serum Therapeu- 

 tic Institute at Butantan, the "Snake Farm" to tourists, 

 and of course we had a thousand things to talk over to- 

 gether; my old correspondent Oliverio Pinto of the Mu- 

 seu Paulista to see; and Lucia's family to salute, the 

 Assumpcaos, whose lovely home it was a privilege indeed 

 to visit. 



Years before when we were first in Rio I met Dr. Or- 

 ville A. Derby, then head of the Geological Survey of 

 Brazil. It was in his office that I first realized that there 

 were vertebrate fossils to be found in Brazil. This fact lay 

 in the back of my mind for years until I had the good 

 fortune to play a small part in persuading Professor Alfred 

 Romer to come to Cambridge from the University of Chi- 

 cago. We soon began to plot a Brazihan expedition to hunt 

 fossils. He had exactly the right man to lead it: Llewellyn 

 Price, an artist to his finger tips, a splendid field man with 

 a great nose for a fossil, and, above all, born and raised in 

 Brazil. We teamed him up with Dr. T. E. White, later 

 to be my companion in crime in the fossil fields of Florida, 

 and down they went to get a magnificent collection of 

 Rhynchosaurs, Cynodonts, and Dicynodonts, all primitive 

 reptiles, many, many millions of years old. They have 

 bones as heavy as a small rhinoceros: the remains of one 

 of them would come to several hundred pounds. 



One of the best of these skeletons, prepared for mount- 

 ing, we sent back to Brazil as a good-will offering, and 



