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After lunch don Luis came over and we made further plans, to go to Guasca tomorrow and then on Wednesday to Zipaquira. Leaving Clara at home, don Luis, Otoya and I went to La Salle to meet Hno Apolinar Maria and to see the collection of insects. I was quite surprised at the extent of the collection; it is by far the largest that I have seen in Colombia, both in number of species represented and in number of specimens. Most of the material has passed through the hands of specialists in Europe or North America. Except for the fact that there is no locality data associated with the specimens, one would rate the value of the collection quite high. I hope that don Luis will make use of the good identifications there and will eventually duplicate the La Salle collection with specimens carrying adequate data. From Apolinar Maria we went to the Instituto for an hour, then back to Casa Gomez for lunch.
Meanwhile Clara went out to try to get some change; there was none to be had at the Banco de la Republica but she finally found a peso's worth at the Banco de Bogota. From there she went to the office of the Texas Oil Co. to leave a note for the Butlers and then to the hair dressers for a wave. Coming home along Carrera 7[[underlined]] a [[/underlined]] she met the Butlers and they all went to Monteblanco's for chocolate milk shakes. She walked with them to their shoe place on the east side of the Parque de Santander.
There were guests for dinner, friends of don Marco and the senoritas. He had once lived in the state of Washington and she in Baltimore. The conversation was much too rapid for Clara and almost all of it was lost. Naturally it all went completely over my head.

Mar. 10. The car called for me on time and we started for Guasca at 7. The trip was pleasant but in the paramo it was cold and wet, with dense clouds. We collected for perhaps an hour and I got a few good things; best was a lot of longicorns just emerging from a rotten stick. This was at 3,300 meters and we then went down to 2,900 meters where there was a sort of meadow or alpine pasture. Collecting was better there, sweeping produced many leafhoppers and chrysomelids; along a brook I found a series of a large staphylinid and in the ground beneath cow dung some Ontherus. We ate lunch at the side of the road and started back so as to get to Bogota by 4.30.
Clara and dona Silvia went to visit the best of the girls' schools in Bogota, Colegio Maria Auxiliadora. They had long waits at the street door and in the waiting room but finally two sisters came. Sor Alicia Gonzalez, an aged friend of dona Silvia, spoke English. She took them around a paved patio decorated with large potted plants, to visit a class in third year English. The class was conducted in English -