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llosquera. We three had coffee and talked over my plans in 

 the lounge, while Clara wrote letters upstairs. Later she 

 came dorm, we talked more, and invited them to lunch. 

 Ivurillo declined because of the illness of his wife, Lehmann 

 accepted and took us to walk first. We went as far as the 

 Biblioteca Nacional (on Calle 2k) and Par que Independencia* 



After lunch ",:u~ 

 rillo came back and 

 we all took a taxi 

 to the Felicia. 

 Clara and I sat and 

 watched while the 

 others talked with 

 the officials and 

 found that our dip- 

 lomatic passports 

 were sufficient 

 without other papers. 

 From there we walked 

 1 urillo, Clara, Lehmann* to the observatory; 



it is a copy of the 

 Greenwich observatory and is dedicated to Jos6 Celestino Kutis. 

 We sat in the library, dark and opulent looking, with massive 

 tables and chairs, and talked with Dr. Jorge Alvarez Lleras , 

 / president of the Academia Colombiana de Ciencias . He is 

 interested in the effect of actinic light on plants., He 

 thinks we should not forget that the colonial period had its 

 good points; that generous encouragement was given to science 

 and that Mexico was allowed to have better universities than 

 Spain. Before leaving, I was presented with some of the back 

 numbers of the Revista of the Academia* Carlos Lehmann left 

 us outside of the observatory and we took a taxi to the Min- 

 is terio de Sducacion. The offices opened from a large hall 

 on the second floor which looked out on the patio ♦ The room 

 was crowded with anxious looking women, and a few men 

 teachers looking for jobs* December and January were vaca- 

 tion; the new term opened on February 10. After much ma- 

 neuvering we were admitted to the office of the Minis tro, 

 and presented to German Arciniegas, who was standing at one 

 side of the large room talking with a novelist, Osorio ?, 

 and the editor of El Tiempo, Roberto Garcia Fena, The 

 i inistro spoke with us briefly in excellent English. 



We three went back to the Granada by taxi (not realizing 

 how near it was) • In the shadowy lounge we talked with a 

 reporter from El Tiempo; he took notes , and then set up his 

 camera and took a picture of the three of us. Another taxi 

 took us to the Ministerio de Economla Nacional. We waited 

 a few moments in an empty white anteroom with a bright green 

 rug and then were admitted and presented to Dr. Marco Aurelio 

 Arango . lie was alone, asked us to sit down and he put some 



