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36 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Jan. 4, 1913  Friday
Place Curitiba
Weather Cool, then hot; heavy rain; cool & clearing

This morning we started at 9 to find the Institute of Natural History, but it was not open, so we walked & walked to the old Museum Paranaense, & after climbing lots of steps, we found the Dept. Archeology, whose chief spoke English & told us the Institute opened only at 12. He gave us mate; & had one of his girl helpers take us to a taxi stand a block away. We then went to see Padre Moura at the Catholic Univ. He remembered me from his 1956 visit to the USNM. I met his assistant, Dr. Loyola, who is director of the Institute, & who promises to send Dr. Hobbs a collection of local crawfish. He took us to our hotel & called for us after lunch to take us to our respective work places. Dr. Lange came in shortly after I got to the Institute, & spent most of the afternoon talking to me. At 4 Dr, Loyola brought Doris over to see the beetles, & Padre Moura has arranged to take us to Ponta Grossa on Sunday for the fine scenery & some collecting. It was raining so Dr. Loyola took us to the hotel at 5. There was a fine small orchestra of "live" music after dinner. 
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EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 37
Date Jan. 5, 1963  Saturday
Place Curitiba
Weather Sunny, mild, then hot, cooler & windy.

As the museum was open from 9 to 12, I worked hard & nearly finished. Dr Lange brought a live horned frog 150cm long for me to see, & I'll photograph it next week. He told me of a wood working shop a block from the museum, & I stopped on my way home to get lovely in laid boxes & things - 9 for less than $5.00 U.S. After lunch Doris & I walked over to the nice little zoo which is less than half a mile from our hotel. I photographed our nice park on the way. The zoo has a fine lot of monkeys, & 2 "monkey islands" in the pool for the water buffalo & the taper Macaws & parrots were beautiful & noisy as ever. Dr. Lange said there was no handweaving here, but his mother had studied it here many years ago, altho the weaving school had folded for lack of pupils. On our way from the zoo I saw a real embroidery shop, the first I had found in Brazil, that has original stamped patterns of [[araucarias?]], & also bobbin laces that look hand made, so I must go there next week when it is open. 
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