Viewing page 33 of 90

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

23
Feb. 13. Today we had our first letter from Lucy. All is going well with her. We went to the Institute together and found Don Luis anxious to take photographs of us. We all went across the street into the formal garden near the Humboldt Memorial. Back in the Institute we met Inés de Zulueta and Emilio García de Molino. Doña Inés is the daughter of Luis de Zulueta, émigré Spaniard who writes a column every so often for El Tiempo; and she works as an artist in the Institute. García is a botanist, also on the staff.
We returned to Carrera 8a at noon and found the cards of the Ambassador. By mistake, cards intended for the Hamlins had also been left so we walked over to the Granada with them. After lunch, which in Bogotá is just like dinner, we went back to the laboratory and I continued to work on the Coccinellids. As I had caught up with Murillo who is mounting specimens from capsules, I started to segregate the duplicates in Pentilia. In cases where there are many specimens, I am not taking more than 20, unless necessary in order to have all localities represented.
Unfortunately there are some species represented by uniques which will complicate my work later on. We left at five to go to Goodspeed's lecture and kodachromes at the Biblioteca. We were early and used the time to see an ethnological exhibit, (pottery, stone artifacts, woven textiles, etc) in one of the halls. The lecture was not a great success. The subject was "Autumn Coloration" and in as much as the bogotanos had never seen it, the films had to be superlative in order to put the idea across. And the first roll of film was far from even good (overexposed and the runs were too short). Between rolls, about half the audience drifted out, not to return. Too bad because the second roll was much better. We saw and chatted with the Brickells, the Butlers and the Cuatrecasas. 

Feb. 14. Again we both went to the Institute in the morning. Don Luis suggested that Inés take Clara around and show her the buildings. They visited the School of Veterinary Science, the Law School and the School of Architecture. All of the buildings have been built since 1938, so are quite new, with new furniture, large windows and spacious grounds; the libraries are quite attractive but as yet have few books. In the stables of the veterinary school some students were standing around a live horse, the subject of the lecture; and in the architecture building some were drawing and some were working in clay, copying architectural details. Most of the rooms were empty because it was Saturday. In the law school there was a large crucifix high on the wall at the back of the auditorium platform. In the veterinary school fourteen children had been