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a very creditable display of mounted birds and other verte- 

 brates in the room which I understand is used for teaching 

 purposes ♦ Next we went to the herbarium where we met Sr. 

 Jos6 Guatrecasas, a Spanish refugee and an accomplished 

 botanist. He showed me the collection of "frailejones" and 

 the genus Lycopodium. It was now about ten-thirty and a 

 little maid brought in small cups of black coffee for all 

 present. Having finished seeing the inside of the building 

 we went out into the garden. Near the side entrance there 



was a set of cages and we made 

 the acquaintance of ft Sliseo r % 

 a beautiful specimen of Sarco- 

 rhamohus papa, the King Vulture, 

 whose head is completely nude 

 but gaily colored in soft pastel 

 shades . Nearby there were a few 

 Philippine banana trees, sterile 

 at the altitude of Bogota. 



Across the street from the 

 front of the Institute is the 

 beautiful Humboldt Memorial, a 

 gift to University City from the 

 Germans living in Colombia. From 

 there we walked over to the sta- 

 dium and were shown about by one 

 of the secretaries. There were 

 portraits of Santos and Lopez; 

 the latter was described as "our 

 next president ?! . Vve were served 

 a luncheon in a cafe for students 

 that is in the arcade around the 

 base of the stadium — papas fri- 

 tas, salchichas and limonada. 

 The room was a series of alcoves 

 and on the back wall of each was 

 a large vividly colored cartoon, 

 one for each of the schools of 

 "Eliseo" the university — engineering, 



veterinary science, medicine, 

 physical education, etc. The one for the vets was of a per- 

 plexed student trying to decide how to dissect a sawhorsel 

 They had been done by a student using an air-brush. All were 

 good and most of them were funny. 



That finished our first day at the Institute and we took 

 a bus back to Parque Centenario, where we parted with Hurillo 

 and walked to the Embassy. Mr. Brickell was not there but he 

 was reached by telephone and we were told to go to his apart- 

 ment . He met us at the house door and took us up to meet Mrs. 

 Brickell and we had a pleasant talk. Later in the afternoon 

 we saw her again in the lobby of the Granada and after hear- 



