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us to Dr Sancedo, the auditor of the Departamento del Valle del Cauca, who was coming out of one of the government buildings.
   After lunch we left Clara at the hotel and with Losada, Murillo, and Otoya, I went out the Carretera del Mar to collect. We stopped at a station called Mares (not on any map) that was nearly at the divide. Here we found good collecting, among other species were two coccinellids and a scarabaeid that I have not seen from any other locality. The altitude of Mares is 2088 meters, rather high for the western cordillera.
Again we took dinner with don Luis and afterward walked to the Plaza Alférez Real where we sat on a bench and discussed education, diet, "aparentar", good neighbors,

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the role of the church, the role of films, the lack of a university course in science. Murillo felt strongly that Colombia could eventually take her place with other nations in the field of science but that at present she was "un niño quien aprende a caminar". We went back to the hotel for a glass of "puro jugo de naranja" before going to bed.

Mar. 6. Our last day in Cali and it rained. Losada came to breakfast and took us to the School of Tropical Agriculture. The school was just being opened after having been closed for years; the lawn and shrubbery about the building was neglected and the general effect inside was musty and dusty. There was a small collection of insects in horrible condition. We did not stay long but returned to the hotel to pack before lunch. While we were eating lunch a messenger from Avianca came to our table to tell us that our plane would leave late and that we need not be at the airport until two.