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LIDICKER
1981
Sept. 22 cont.
agree w/comp. station. Then we drove back to
Poznan. Lech & I had a piano at the hotel & discussed
from regarding the Inst. & col. Cragen next summer. I
did dinner in the hotel restaurant. Worked on seminar
for tomorrow. Director of Turew station: Jaros[illegible] Karg
Sept. 23
Lech picked me up at Hotel at 0930 & we walked to
his Institute. From 10-11 I gave seminar on micros-
structuring in Calip. Volu. Following discussion I
explained why I was sampling the local Mus population
with background on current thinking about taxonomy of
Eurasian Mus. More discussions with Berger &
Dr. Janusz Truszkowski. The latter looks at
Microtus arvulis at Turew for his PhD research
under Lech. Now he is trying to develop an electrophoresis
lab for the Rana esculenta project. A little after
lunch Lech & I (w/ driver) for town Poznan. We went
to the "katedra" on an island in the river. This
church was first built in ~989 along with a fontress.
It was destroyed & rebuilt several times, it now is in
Gothic style. Lech got a key from a priest (who was
cleaning his sink with a small cross) & he went down
under the church to see the tombs and some of
recently discovered & excavated walls & artifacts
from the original church. The first two kings of Poland
were buried there, but no evidence remains because