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understand me, I got off the car when I thought we were 

 somewhere near the cathedral. There was a small group 

 of police standing on a corner and I approached with some 

 , reluctance and asked, in my best Spanish, how to get to 

 ( the Plaza de Armas and the cathedral. To my complete sur- 

 prise they understood me the first time and gave me di- 

 rections in slow and very clear Spanish. It was fourteen 

 blocks to the hotel. 



7eb. 1$. Ra&l called for me at 9 and we went to the Kuseo 

 Kacional. I first met Serior Frage, now the librarian but 

 formerly an entomologist specializing in the Tabanidae. At 

 present and for some time in the past, his eyes have been 

 giving him trouble. It was pitiful to see how he clings 

 to the belief that "they are much better today and will be 

 completely well soon." From the library I went to the of- 

 fice of Miss Grete Hostny, a refugee Austrian- jew archaeol- 

 ogist who has been recently working in the desert region of 

 Chile. She was very pleasant and finally ran down by tele- 

 phone both Ureta, who is technically in charge of the Chil- 

 ean National collection of insects, and Carlos Kunoz, 

 Director of the Department of Forests. Before they arrived 

 the Director of the Museum, Dr. Enrique Gigoux, came in and 

 I was introduced and started on a tour of the building. 

 / As Dr Gigoux was 85> years old and unable to climb stairs 

 and devotes only two hours a day to the museum, it should 

 not be surprising that the institution is in a very run down 

 condition. Dr Ureta is a practicing physician and when con- 

 venient, comes to the museum for one hour each day. He and 

 llunos came together and we were admitted to the collection 

 of insects i a room perhaps 18 by 10 feet equipped with cases 

 to hold about 2^0 drawers. The collection was a rather grim 

 sight and none of the types of Germain or Philippi could be 

 found. It was explained that thqy probably had been stolen. 



Raul had spent the morning at the Dept. Sanidad Vegetal 

 and came for me in time to go to the Club de la Union for 

 lunch with Thayer. There were six of us, Thayer, Guest, 

 Casanueva, Janney of the Rockefeller Foundation, Raul and 

 myself. The party broke up at three and Raul and I went 

 to the hotel to talk and read some in "Time for Decision" 

 (Raul had the Spanish translation) . After onces at the 

 American Milk Bar we went to a movie. n Andv Hardy and his 

 Elonde Troubles." Dinner at the hotel and bed. 



Feb. 16. We first went to the D. S. V. and I prepared a 

 curriculum vitae for Sr Casanueva. Then I went to the Mu- 

 seura and while waiting for Ureta, I talked New Y.'orld arch- 

 aeology with Dr Hostny. Yfnen Ureta arrived, I asked to see 

 the collection of Theclinae so that I could tell Bill Field 

 about it. Found that Chile has less than ten species in all. 



