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a very creditable display of mounted birds and other vertebrates in the room which I understand is used for teaching purposes. Next we went to the herbarium where we met Sr. José Cuatrecasas, a Spanish refugee and an accomplished botanist. He showed me the collection of "frailejones" and the genus Lycopodium. It was now about ten-thirty and a little maid brought in small cups of black coffee for all present. Having finished seeing the inside of the building we went out into the garden. Near the side entrance there 

[[image - two caged large birds standing on rocks.  [[caption for the image]] "Eliseo" [[/caption]] ]] 

was a set of cages and we made the acquaintance of "Eliseo", a beautiful specimen of [[underline]]Sarcorhamphus papa[[/underline]], the King Vulture, whose head is completely nude but gaily colored in soft pastel shades. Nearby there were a few Philippine banana trees, sterile at the altitude of Bogotá.
Across the street from the front of the Institute is the beautiful Humboldt Memorial, a gift to University City from the Germans living in Colombia. From there we walked over to the stadium and were shown about by one of the secretaries. There were portraits of the Santos and López; the latter was described as "our next president". We were served a luncheon in a café for students that is in the arcade around the base of the stadium -- papas fritas, salchichas and limonada. The room was a series of alcoves and on the back wall of each was a large vividly colored cartoon, one for each of the schools of  the university -- engineering, veterinary science, medicine, physical education, etc. The one for the vets was of a perplexed student trying to decide how to dissect a sawhorse! They had been done by a student using an air-brush. All were good and most of them were funny.
That finished out first day at the Institute and we took a bus back to the Parque Centenario, where we parted with Murillo and walked to the Embassy. Mr. Brickell was not there but he was reached by telephone and we were told to go to his apartment. He met us at the house door and took us up to meet Mrs. Brickell and we had a pleasant talk. Later in the afternoon we saw her again in the lobby of the Granada and after hear-