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Feb. 13. Today we had our first letter from Lucy* All 

 is going well with her. We went to the Institute togeth- 

 er and found Don Luis anxious to take photographs of us. 

 We all went across the street into the formal garden near 

 the Humholdt Memorial. Back in the Institute we met In6s 

 de Zulueta and Smilio Garcia de Kolino. Dona Ines is the 

 daughter of Luis de Zulueta, £migr6 Spaniard who writes a 

 column every so often for El Tiempo* and she works as an 

 artist in the Institute. Garcia is a botanist, also on 

 the staff. 



We returned to Carrera 8 s * at noon and found the cards 

 of the Ambassador. By mistake, cards intended for the 

 Lamlins had also been left so we walked over to the Gra- 

 nada with them. After lunch, which in Bogoti is just like 

 dinner, we went back to the laboratory and I continued to 

 work on the Coccinellids. As I had caught up with Murillo 

 who is mounting specimens from capsules, I started to seg- 

 regate the duplicates in Pentilia. In cases where there 

 are many specimens, I am not talcing more than 20, unless 

 necessary in order to have all localities represented. 

 Unfortunately there are some species represented by uniques 

 which will complicate my work later on. We left at five 

 to go to Goodspeed's lecture and kodachromes at the Biblio- 

 teca. We were early and used the time to see an ethnologi- 

 cal exhibit, (pottery, stone artifacts, woven textiles, etc) 

 in one of the halls . The lecture was not a great success. 

 The subject was "Autmn Coloration 11 and in as much as the 

 bogotanos had never seen it, the films had to be superlative 

 in order to put the idea across. And the first roll of film 

 was far from even good (overexposed and the runs were too 

 short). Between rolls, about half the audience drifted out, 

 not to return. Too bad because the second roll was much 

 better, Ye saw and chatted with the Brickells, the Butlers 

 and the Guatrecasas. 



Feb. lli* Again we both went to the Institute in the morn- 

 ing. Don Luis suggested that Ines take Clara around and 

 show her the buildings. They visited the School of Veter- 

 inary Science, the Law School and the School of Architec- 

 ture. All of the buildings have been built since 1938, so 

 are quite new, with new furniture, large windows and spa- 

 cious grounds; the libraries are quite attractive but as 

 yet have few books . In the stables of the veterinary 

 school some students were standing around a live horse, the 

 subject of the lecture J and in the architecture building 

 some were drawing and some were working in clay, copying 

 architectural details . Host of the rooms were empty because 

 it was Saturday. In the law school there was a large cru- 

 cifix high on the wall at the back of the auditorium olat- 

 form. In the veterinary school fourteen children had been 



