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cations of the Institute collection. Clara went to the bank for change and to buy a map of Bogota. It is a beautiful big one and I think we will have to get one for the Library of Congress.

In the afternoon we both went to the Institute and made our plans for a trip to Pacho tomorrow and the longer trip to Medellin and Cali. Don Luis suggested nine days for the Medellin trip but that is too much and we will have to cut it to not more than a week. We then went to the Biblioteca to see the Amazonas exhibit, work of the Indians - bark shirts, wooden masks, neck chains made of the wing covers of the large brilliant buprestid beetle, etc. There were also 18th century maps and 17th and 18th century books, all dealing with that area. Dr and Mrs Bugher (he is in the Rockefeller Laboratory) were dinner guests.

Feb. 25. Started at seven for Pacho. We took the road north

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Paramo del Diablo

through Chapinero to the third reten where we turned left to cross the Puente del Comun, a bridge that was built in 1792 under the auspices of the King of Spain. At the first turn beyond the bridge we went to the right (Chia is to the left) to Zipaquira where the salt mines are. We stopped while Murillo ate some breakfast. We climbed steadily from Zipaquira to the Paramo del Diablo where we stopped again, this time to collect. Found weevils and staphylinids on the flower heads of a shrub by the roadside; Hernando Osorno got some good tachinids. Then on to Pacho where we were stopped at the reten and forced to go to the police station because of our cameras. Fortunately my camera was not noticed and