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Sunday Nov 10, 1929

Dear Prof Hitchcock,

Yesterday Dr. Bittencourt called and took me to the ^[[insertion]] Estacão do [[/insertion]] Serviço de Industria Pastoril, in Ministry of Agriculture, and miles from any of the other parts of the ministry I've been to. This with animals and Est. Agrastologia with grass plats, crops etc are like our Arlington, Bell, and the place beyond College Park - Beltsville -- which our Dept Agr. has. The grass herb of Dept Agr. is in the place visited yesterday. The specimens are well preserved and labeled, but so

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