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home, he showed me quantities of plotted curves and proudly displayed a very fine binocular recently bought for him. He is young - under 40 I should think - and is going to a great deal to advance Brazilian agriculture. Can't US Dept Agr afford to send him Journ. Agric Research and Experiment Station Record. 
He gave me a carbon copy of a typed copy of the elder "Goeldi's "phytogeography" we'd call it. Its definitions of Bras. terms for habitats will be a great help to me.
- I stopped for morning café and to change driers.

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It has stopped raining just now after pouring all night, but is still lowering. I do hope the sun will come out and let me dry up my great stack of driers. ¶ The Pico da Bandeira excursion is all arranged. We leave Wednesday 8 p.m. with Dona Maria, [[underlined]] probably [[/underlined]] Dr. C-P., and a man from Jard Bot. And we go up from Esperito Santo side as I wanted to in the first place. This is longer but is unspoiled while the Minas side is "devastado" Dr. C-P. said. Miss Rolfs and I camped in burned and down timber much as we find in Idaho and cattle trails were what

Transcription Notes:
Émil August Goeldi was a Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist Pico da Bandeira, or Mount Bandeira (Portuguese for Flag Peak)