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48 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Jan. 14, 1963 Monday
Place Buenos Aires
Weather Sunny and fine.
This moring the hotel clerk tried to phone the museum for us, but no one answered, so we got a taxi & went to the home of Dr. Viana, Doris entomologist friend. His father answered the door & said that Viana was at the museum waiting for us. The porter took us to his office, & then took me to Dr. Gallardo who was very glad to see me & showed me the collection. They have nothing from Central Brazil or Colombia, but at least I can get some kinds that we dont have in the USNM, and I can copy records of Misiones from the catalogue, as that state borders Paraná. Dr. Gallardo promised to exchange some of his paratypes & other species we do not have. The reptile man, Dr. Jorge Cranwell, gave us tea, quince jelly on crackers, and cookies at 5, & then we found our way back on the bus. No restaurants open until 8PM, so we starved and waited until El Pulpo, an Italian restaurant near the hotel, opened & then we had soup & fine tender beef. We got out first mail from home since Dec. 24 to-day.
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EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 49
Date Jan. 15, 1963 Tuesday
Place Buenos Aires
Weather Fine & sunny, the cloudy & a very heavy shower
We went to the museum about 945, as Dr. Viana had agreed to come in "early" to show Doris his beetles, while I wrote postcards waiting for the 12o'clock appearance of Dr. Gallardo. We had brought out own sandwiches & fruit & Dr. Viana sent his porter out to get Cocacola for us, & beer for himself & Gallardo. As the collection is small, Doris finished before noon, so after lunch she came down to the herp lab with me to write her account of the entomology collection for Dr. Viana to read. I finished copying the Misiones records by 3 -they had not one frog from Central Brazil or Colombia- so Dr. Cranwell wrote us a letter to take to La Plata to morrow, while I asked Dr. G. for a dozen frogs we do not have, including some of his paratypes. Dr. Cranwell has asked us all to dinner on Thursday evening. He wanted to meet us at 9, apparently the fashionable hour, but when I said we were accustomed to eating much earlier, he somewhat grudgingly put the date at 8PM -also too late in my opinion!
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