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us to Dr Sancedo, the auditor of the Departamento del 

 Valle del Cauca, who was coming out of one of the go- 

 vernment buildings. 



After lunch we left 

 Clara at the hotel and 

 with Losada, lurillo, 

 and Otoya, I went out 

 the Garret era del Tar 

 to collect. We stopped 

 at a station called 

 Hares (not on any map) 

 that was nearly at the 

 divide. Hare we found 

 good collecting, among 

 other species were two 

 coccinellids and a 

 scarabaeid that 1 have 

 not seen from any oth- 

 er locality. The al- 

 titude of Hares is 

 2038 meters, rather 

 high for the western 

 cordillera. 



Again we took din- 

 ner with don Luis and 

 afterward walked to 

 the Plaza Alf6rez Real 

 where we sat on a 

 bench and discussed 

 education, diet, "a- Iglesia San Francisco 



parentar n , good neigh- 

 bors, the role of the church, the role of films, the 

 lack of a urJ.vers.it3r course in science, Murillo felt 

 strongly that Colombia could eventually take her place 

 with other nations in the field of science but that at 

 present she was tf un nino qui en aprende a caminar 11 . v.e 

 went back to the hotel for a glass of ,r puro jugo de na- 

 ranja 1 * before going to bed. 



Har. 6. Our last day in Gali and it rained. Losada 

 came to breakfast and took us to the School of Tropical 

 Agriculture. The school was just being opened after 

 having been closed for years ; the lawn and shrubbery 

 about the building was neglected and the general effect 

 inside was musty and dusty. There was a small collec- 

 tion of insects in horrible condition. We did not stay 

 long but returned to the hotel to pack before lunch . 

 1 Hiile we were eating lunch a messenger from Avianca 

 cane to our table to tell us that our plane would leave 

 late and that we need not be at the airport until two. 



