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[[start page]] 14 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED Date Dec. 14, 1962 Friday Place Rio Weather Raining nearly all day As Doris' cough was bothering her, I went alone to the museum. At lunch Dr. & Mrs. Hubbell of the Univ. Mich. sat down at my table & introduced themselves. He works on grasshoppers, & soon goes to Tierra del Fugo, where he will try to get me some of those rare Zachaenus. At 5 we shared a taxi home from the museum, as they are also staying at Hotel Serrador. Then they went to dinner with us at our little hole in the wall, Café Olona, & were crazy about the shrimp-and-rice, just as we had been, & the caramel custard, & cashew. Dr. H. paid our bill too. Then we bought light raincoats for Mrs. H. & me at Mesbla, & we came back to our room & showed them our "stones", & gave them the address so they could get some. [[end page]] [[start page]] EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 15 Date Dec. 15, 1962 Saturday Place Rio Weather Cloudy, cool We went to Estacio Mariano Procopio to get tickets for Petropolis tomorrow on the 8[[:]]30AM bus for the Hubbells & ourselves, as Bertha had asked her friend Dona Renée Lamounier who lives there to meet us in her car & take us to the lake & other good collecting places. Then we went for a ride on Bus 97, & when it passed the Botanic Gardens we got off & had a very pleasant half hour watching the birds & finding more epiphitic plants on branches brought down by yesterday's rain. Photographed a very large humming bird sipping at some red hibiscus. In the afternoon the Hubbells joined us in a sightseeing tour along the beaches, around the lake, & into the park to the Emperor's former home, now the city museum where we saw fine old carved furniture, portraits, china, armor, seals & such, but especially a small but lovely collection of old tiles, another of rubber figurines, & one of bobbin laces which I tried to photograph. The guide talked too much, so we were tired out when it was over. [[end page]]