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10 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Dec. 11, 1962 Tuesday
Place Rio
Weather Warm & sunny; hot.
This morning we arrived at the museum ready to go with Bertha to the Institute Oswaldo Cruz, when she phoned  to Dr. Miranda-Ribeiro that she was sick, so Carvalho came in her place to take us. We started OK at 930 in the zoology depts auto, but it gave up the ghost about a mile from the museum & after standing by a wall & watching the men try to start it for an hour, Carvalho finally phoned for the museum's regular car which got us to the institute long after 11. We interviewed several people, & finally Doris got to see Dr. Costa Lima, the veteran entomologist of Brazil, & I saw the jew Dr. Lent, who had locked up Bertha's & her father's collection & I am to see what I want to-morrow.

We were due back at the museum to go with Dr. Miranda-Ribeiro to the meeting at the Jardin Botanico, where the director will give me my export permit. I had to speak French all the 
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EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 11
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time with the assistant director while the papers were being signed. Then the director assigned a girl to show us the gardens. She too spoke French & some English. First we saw the succulents & cacti, very numerous & in fine condition. The orchid house was really a dream, with dozens of wonderful flowers, & little ferns growing outdoors beside the greenhouse. Then we saw the aroids, & the "first" royal palm brought here in 1809 from which all others in Brazil have come, & finally the Amazonian plants, the  bamboo clumps were superb masses of light & shadow, & the many flowering trees & shrubs dropped flowers & seeds over the path. Air plants & mistletoe cactus grew in the rose, orange, green, gray & black-lichened trunks. Just before 5 we got a taxi for our hotel, & were glad to get an early dinner with caju & laranja, & so to bed.
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