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20 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Dec. 19, 1962 Wednesday
Place Rio
Weather Cloudy & rain; sunny; cloudy & rain
As Bertha said it was her father's 107th birthday anniversary, I asked her to let me go the cemetery with her to leave flowers on his grave, so she took me to the St. John the Baptist Cemetery in Botafogo this morning, & we got some white agapanthus & gladioli. The cemetery is full of handsomely carved statues of angels & saints, with a beautiful big mountain at the back. Dr. Lutz's grave (& his wife's) is a large white marble box with an open book carved at the head, with marble urns for flowers Oswaldo Cruz's grave is nearby. At the museum I met 2 nice young men from São Paulo, a paleontologist & an ecologist, who have established a college at Rio Preto, & invited us to visit it, but I doubt if we'll have time. I copied 2/3 of the entries of frogs from my area from the amphib. catalogue, & shall do the rest to-morrow, so I'll be sure not to miss any important ones. Doris was well enough to go to our hole-in-the-wall for dinner.
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EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 21
Date Dec. 20, 1962 Thursday
Place Rio
Weather Sunny & hot; clouds, rain, breeze.
I finished copying records of west Brazilian frogs from the museum catalogue, & as Bertha let me borrow the catalogue of the Lutz Collection at the IOC, I copied that too. In the time left, I shall manage to see about half the museum collection, & nearly all the IOC frogs. —not so many at that!
Bertha gave me the address of some Swiss jewelers  Mister, 108 C Avenida Rio Branco —to whom I took Doris' wristwatch to have one of the links repaired, & he would not let me pay him anything, as the work took only a few minutes. He has some pretty polished agates & tumbled quartz chains, so I want to go & buy something to show my appreciation.
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