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Feb. Ip* First thing after breakfast we Trent to Tia's 

 to buy souvenir postcards. Then I went to the Insti- 

 tute. Don Luis is to get our fr salvoconductos rT this 

 •morning and I am to work with Otoya and Osorno. 1 sat 

 at the dissecting microscope and they brought specimens 

 for me to pass on. I could get the family and often 

 the subfamily; sometimes I would know the genus . We 

 cleaned up lots of odds and ends that had puzzled them 

 and in general I am sure it was a help to them. At 11, 

 Don Luis came and asked me to bring our passport when 

 I come back in the afternoon. In the meantime, Clara 

 had gone for the mail, finding letters from New York 

 and the Blackwelders; then to the Banco de la Republica 

 to change five pesos but they could give her nothing 

 smaller than $0 centavos so she went on along Garrera 8& 

 to the Royal Bank of Canada where she found some 20 cen- 

 tavo pieces. At the window she talked with a woman who 

 had lived several years in New York and remembered it 

 kindly. 



We met at Gas a G6mes for lunch. I took the passport 

 and went to the Institute, ljurillo disappeared with it 

 and was bo meet us at Par que Independencia at 5 •IS'* IVe, 

 Otoya, Osorno and I continued as in the morning. While 

 they do not have a large collection, there are, never- 

 theless some very nice things in it. Met Don Luis at 

 the appointed time and he had the salvoconductos that 

 permitted us to go anywhere in Colombia during the next 

 seventy days. Heme at £. 30 and walked downtown with 

 Clara. We left the film pack to be developed and it 

 will be ready at k tomorrow afternoon. From there we 

 went over to Garrera 13 and saw the outside of Colegio 

 de la Ferced at Calle lp. There was a long gorgeous 

 black car parked in the middle of . the m ih too narrow 

 street so that traffic was almost halted; a tired old 

 horse, harnessed to a load of burlap bundles, was parked 

 head on and close to a car, not tied but patiently stand- 

 ing and waiting . We walked along Garrera 13, sometimes 

 called Avenida Boyaca, to Calle 18, then to the apartment 

 where we met the Butlers just coding away; they had called 

 to invite us to dinner the next night . 



We had Spanish with our dinner, the doctor from Antio- 

 quia talked slowly and clearly so that one of us under- 

 stood quite a lot. lie is learning English and is both 

 earnest and thorough about it. Mr Brickell called after 

 dinner, bringing our clean clothes . After he left, we 

 played Chinese checkers with the girls until quite late 

 and when we went to bed we found there was no water. 



