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rather definite questions about my plans for the visit; all 

 this in Spanish, He was intelligently interested, with a 

 practical eye to possibilities for the not too remote future, 



Feb, 7. Mr, Eder ate breakfast with us, and showed us that 

 we could have both pina and jugo de naranja just for the 

 asking. He thinks that the agriculture of the Cauca valley 

 cannot last much more than two generations longer, unless 

 something is done to stop the reckless wood-cutting and the 

 erosion that follows • Re was joined by a Mr. Marshall, who 

 exports gold and platinum from the Choc6, As we left the 

 dining room we met Dr. and I/Irs, Goodspeed, and talked with 

 them a few minutes in the lounge; Thomas Harper Goodspeed, 

 University of California botanist, beginning a tour of 

 South America to lecture on gardens and collect plants for 

 the University Arboretum. 



Don Luis called for us at 9.30 and we took the inevitable 

 taxi to the Minis terio de Relaciones Exteriores, stopping 

 outside the building to look at the window from which Boli- 

 var escaped while La llanuelita talked with the would-be 

 assassins at the door. ¥e waited in a second floor ante- 

 room with old mirrors in a queer slanted crescent shape, 

 and a large portrait of Su&rez . Dr. Luis L6pez de Mesa 

 received us in his office, a large square wood-paneled 

 room with low book shelves all around the walls; it had a 

 Pan American Union calendar. He was interested in biolo- 

 gical control and the relation of systematics to economics. 

 He asked very meaty ques- 

 tions , some in English, 

 more in Spanish. 



Someone from the Con- 

 sular service showed us 

 through the building. The 

 part occupied by the of- 

 fices was formerly the 

 Convent of San Carlos, a 

 part of the Church of San 

 Carlos. Ifaaa Carlos III 

 persecuted the Jesuits in 

 1767, both the convent 

 and church changed their 

 names to San Ignacio. La- 

 ter, the convent changed 

 back but the church still 

 remains San Ignacio. The 

 furniture consisted most- 

 ly of large heavy pieces of beautiful old carved wood, very 

 dark. The patio had a formal garden. We stood on the sec- 

 ond floor corridor of the patio to see where the wall was 

 cut away at the back of the patio; near us in a corner of 



Cupola of San Ignacio 



