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on the edge of a small stream. The collecting was the 

 best that I have seen so far and it was too bad that we 

 had so little time. On the way back to Osorno we stopped 

 at the Fabrica Madera Terciada "Somasur" (a plywood fac- 

 tory) . Here was my first chance to do anything to amount 

 to with the problem of insect damage to forest trees* The 

 yard was full of barked logs of various species of trees 

 and a man was sent with me to tell me the kinds as I 

 asked. Having made some estimate of the frequency of at- 

 tack of various types of insects on the various types of 

 trees, we went inside the plant and watched the veneer 

 coming off a log and noting how deep the insect burrows 



Enclosed bathing pool at hotel 



penetrated the log. It was fairly evident that the 

 amount of damage was relatively slight. There didn't 

 seem to be any really important pest of the forests in 

 Chile which is a very good thing. Chilean forests are 

 not like ours; a Chilean forest may extend for miles 

 and contain only two, three, four or at most five kinds 

 of trees while ours often contain twenty or even thirty 

 kinds. Therefore, if a pest attacking a single species 

 of tree sets a foothold in the Chilean forest, it may 

 seriously injure or destroy 2(# or more of the trees 

 while in the United States a similar outbreak might 

 account for as much as lOfo but rarely more and usually 

 less. Reached the hotel at 8.30, had a very welcome 

 hot bath and dinner. 



Mar. 2. This is a day of rest. We walked about the 

 city in the morning. At noon we entertained Teuber and 

 Firs Teuber at luncheon (I like them both very much). 

 With the departure of the Teubers we went to our room 



