Field notes, v1409
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C. Koford 1 Journal - Japan India trip (For NINDB, NIH, to get Rhesus Monkeys) February 1, 1962 Puerto Rico to San Francisco Departed in morning EAL flight 106 to Chicago. Then was AA to San Francisco, arriving 1600. Went to Berkeley. Hired car. February 2, 1962. Visited A.Miller, Rittenau, + various students at Museum Vertebrate Zoology. February 5, 1962. Departed S.F. 0900 on PAA flight 1. Stopped at Honolulu about 1 1/2 hrs., 1/2 hr. at Wake Island. Arrived at Tokyo 7 p.m. (7 hrs. time change + one day from S.F.). Cold. February 6, 1962. Visited John Frisch at Sophia University. In afternoo departed Tokyo by train (first class, 3280 yen) for Noyoya with Frisch Then by electric train (100 yen) to Imuyama - shi. Stayed at Japanese country inn (ryokan). For 2, cost 5050 yen including dinner and breakfast. Imuyama on Kiso River, where carp are fishing plentiful. February 7, 1962. Went to Japan Monkey Center, a 15 min. bus ride from Imuyama - shi. Met Masao Kawai and several students of monkeys there. The area a park and recreation place for people. About 4 buildings 20 x 50' with monkeys; some outside large cages (to 40'x 25') covered with plastic sheets. Frosty morning; said to get to -7° C. here. At present they have an expedition in Colombia, which will go down Amazon for ecological studies. And men in India, Africa. Two mountain gorillas were brought from Africa but both died at the Monkey Center. 18 young apes in one large outdoor cage (plastic covered; must look with heat too). In one building, small glass fronted cages with a few of various species. There included squirrel monkeys (2 born here), Mico, Tamarin, Leontopithecus, Aotus, Saguos, 2 Barbary apes, 2 mandrills, Ceythocelbus, (Troglhy