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In the gai 



lounge and talked with a Mp 

 neither young nor strong bu 

 air and alone © 



ing our tale of woe, she of- 

 fered to have our laundry done 

 with hers and would send her 

 chauffeur around to get it. 



Don Luis called at the ho- 

 tel to show us a carbon copy 

 of my appointment as "Tecnico 

 Asesor 11 for the Minis terio de 

 Economia, he and Otoya to work 

 with me, and £0(3 pesos for ex- 

 penses of special trips, etc. 

 I showed him the photocopies 

 of the plates for my Hippodam- 

 ia paper; he seemed much in- 

 terested and asked for several 

 copies of the paper when it 

 appears. 



After dinner, we sat in the 

 ' . Alexander from Texas; she is 

 - is touring South America by 



Feb. 10. We had breakfast with the Goodspeeds. Instead 

 of the chauffeur, we took the bag of laundry to Mrs. 

 Brickell's apartment for her maid to do. .?rom there we 

 went on to the Mnbassy and the telephone girl told us 

 that we were invited to take lunch the next day with the 

 Ambassador, Spruille Braden. r. Brickell was there and 

 we were introduced to Mr. Hamlin of the Buffalo Museum. 

 Brickell called a taxi and we all went to the Institute 

 where we sat in Iviurillo's office and talked before walk- 

 ing around the grounds . Both Murillo and I took photo- 

 graphs . There was a young Californian entomologist at 

 the Institute: his name is 

 Hoover but apparently not 

 a relative of Herbert. 

 During our conversations, 

 it was decided that the 

 Coccinellids should, after 

 preliminary study, be di- 

 vided in half, except that 

 all uniques are to remain 

 at the Institute . Murillo 

 will continue to collect 

 and will try to find dupli- 

 cates of the uniques . 



We went back to the hotel 

 for lunch and were invited 

 to go up to the Goodspeed's 



room. They had Room 208, a ®Y pool 



large corner room looking 



