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up Oarrera S&ptima and down Calle l£, with a fine view of 

 Hons err ate; the bells of San Francisco, not far from the 

 bed, begin to clang at five every morning* 



Humboldt remorial, facing the Institute. 



I returned to the Institute at two-thirty to begin the 

 work with the Coccinellidae. It was pretty rough going; 

 I spoke no Spanish and Ifarlllo spoke no English. However, 

 we smiled and made gestures and got along after a fashion. 

 The collection was in a case in Kurillo's office and was 

 arranged, if one can call it an arrangement, chronologi- 

 cally according to date of capture. Only the first spec- 

 imen of each day's catch was labeled and then only with a 

 number referring to an entry in a notebook. So there might 

 be several species under one number and as most of the 

 specimens were not labeled, it was next to impossible to 

 shift individuals about at will. I made my identifications 

 to genus only (except in rare cases) and kept a list for 

 r^urillo to use later. I also separated half of the dupli- 

 cates to take back to Washington. 



Clara started out alone to find a bank that would give 

 her small change for a five-peso bill. In the middle of 

 a street she met John Butler, who took her to the Banco 

 de la Republica and also invited us to dinner for the next 

 day. She noticed that the walls of many of the downtown 

 buildings were scrawled in charcoal or black paint with 

 such slogans as "Muera Hitler 11 , r! Ni sal ni agua para los 

 Nazis", etc. There was also a very neat stenciled notice 

 on many of the walls , "Apoyemos a la Union So viatica y a 

 sus heroicos ejercitos rojos". She went back to the hotel 

 and began writing letters and waiting for me to come back* 



