Pearson 1983 64 of disease. The Rio Manso was full of dead rivers. (He chose in along the manso). He said he remembered the date because it was of the time of the war with Germany (= 1939? or 1940?). Concerning fire, he said that a big fire came through from Chilin 1915 and burned all the way to the pampas and to El Bolson. No big fires since then. Abel also questioned him about the time of scaring of tucos-tucos, but I couldn't get most of his answers. Photos of Gerda Darwin along Lago Massardi on the way home, a bit passé. At our La Veranda study site, the meadow was relatively ungrazed, but had several areas of turf torn up by wild boars, probably last year. There were earth cores and gopher runways in several of these areas, probably chelonyx, but no cores in the undisturbed grass. Across the road were tucos digging and earth cores, some of them on undisturbed turf. The meadow at Rio Villagas and at La Veranda was in bloom. Under the cactus at Lago Amor and at Lago Massardi were large numbers of fallen galls about 1/2