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It is obvious that I can't pay for all this. The money we will have 
will pay the equipment, perhaps, but not all this. I can add that, 
as a retribution, I will try to send to everybody our future papers, 
but I am afraid that that will take some time. 
eee moment the Natural History Department has only four blackened 
walls. 
I can't end this matter without saying that we were expecting some- 
thing like this for years. We had asked the experts to examine the 
building and to suggest what should be done to prevent a fire like 
this. 
The report of the firemen, made a few years ago, said that that 
building was by far the most dangerous of Lisbon. Devices for the 
detection of fire were needed, and those things that are in all 
streets to connect the hoses tr can't find in three dictionaries the 
name for it); the gates were too narrow so that the more powerful 
fire engines couldn't attack a fire from the sides of the building 
(that is surrounded by a small park and other buildings of the Uni- 
versity). The cost of the system was more or less the equivalent of 
US $100,000. We only succeeded to have from the government some 
fire extinguishers and those things to connect the hoses were just 
put there but were not properly connected and were useless. We had 
demanded to the Government to order an enquiry in order to establish 
the responsibility for the slowness of the works (this, before the 
fire). They preferred to use the money for other more "political" 
benefits. Now it will cost several thousands more to put all back 
to work. 
I am sending to you reprints of the latest paper by Trovao. I tried 
to obtain one more reprint for that friend of yours whom you once 
asked me a reprint for. As soon as I have another I will send it to 
you. It has been quite difficult for me to obtain it because usual- 
ly when I go to C.P.A.S. the malacological department is closed and 
Trovao is sometimes hard to find. 
I am going to include with the reprints some photographs of the 
Faculty of Sciences. 
With my best regards, in the hope to keep hearing from you, 
Yours sincerely, 
Ilidio 
S. Pedro do Estoril, 21st March 1978 

BRAZILIAN MALACOLOGICAL SECTOR CELEBRATES 10th ANNIVERSARY 
The Malacological Section of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora 
in Minas Gerais State, Brazil, is celebrating the 10th anniversary _ 
of its founding. The Section is headed by Dr. Maury Pinto de Oliveira 
who founded it and whose private shell collection forms the center of 
the Section's collection. 
In the ten years since its founding, much important work has been ac- 
GueePtdhed p including several important publications in the series 
MALACOLOGICAI COMMUNICATIONS. The Section also completed a survey 
of the disease-bearing planorbid snails (Schistosoma Mansoni Vector) 
