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After lunch don Luis came over and we made further plans, 

 to go to Guasca tomorrow and then on Wednesday to Zipaquird. 

 Leaving Clara at home, don Luis, Otoya and I went to La 



•>- : Salle to meet Hno Apolinar Maria and to see the collection 

 of insects. I was quite surprised at the extent of the 

 collection; it is by far the largest that X nave seen in 

 Colombia, both in number of species represented and in num- 

 ber of specimens. Host of the material has passed through 

 the hands of specialists in Europe or North America. Except 

 for the fact that there is no locality data associated with 

 the specimens, one would rate the value of the collection 

 quite high. I hope that don Luis will make use of the good 

 identifications there and will eventually duplicate the La 

 Salle collection with specimens carrying adequate data. 

 From Apolinar Maria we went to the Instituto for an hour, 

 then back bo Casa Gomez for lunch. 



Iv'eanwhile Clara went out to try to get some change; there 

 was none to be had at the Banco de la Republiea but she fi- 

 nally found a peso's worth at the Banco de Bogotd. From 

 there she went to the office of the Texas Oil Co. to leave 

 a note for the Sutlers and then to the hair dressers for a 

 wave. Coming home along Carrera 7 & she met the Butlers and 

 they all went to Monteblanco v s for chocolate milk shakes . 

 She walked with them to their shoe place on the east side 



I of the Parque de Santander. 



There were guests for dinner, friends of don l arco and 

 the senoritas. lie had once lived in the state of washing- 

 ton and she in Baltimore. The conversation was much too 

 rapid for Clara and almost all of it was lost. Naturally 

 it all went completely over my head. 



Liar. 10. The car called for me on time . and we started for 

 Guasca at 7« The trip was pleasant but in the piramo it 

 was cold and wet, with dense clouds . We collected for oer- 

 haps an hour and I got a few good things ; best was a lot 

 of longicorns just emerging from a rotten stick. This was 

 at 3,300 meters and we then went down to 2,900 meters where 

 there was a sort of meadow or alpine pasture . Collecting 

 was better there , sweeping produced many leaf hoppers and 

 chrysomelids; along a brook I found a series of a large 

 staphylinid and in the ground beneath cow dung some Ontherus . 

 We ate lunch at the side of the road and started back so as 

 to get to Bogotd by I4.30. 



Clara and dona Silvia went to visit the best of the girls ' 

 schools in Bogota, Colegio Maria Auxiliadora. They had long 



j waits at the street door and in the waiting room but finally 

 two sisters came. Sor Alicia Gonzilez, an aged friend of 

 dona Silvia, spoke English. She took them around a paved 

 patio decorated with large potted plants , to visit a class 



. in third year English. The class was conducted in Lnglish ~* 



