Pearson - 1994 5 long. Stopped for the night a couple of hours north of San Luis, in Algarrobo scrub. Sky completely clear overhead, but a few thunderheads over the Coridllera to the east, Continuous lightning to the south toward San Luis. November 8- Clouded up during the night and the lightning, still continuous, got close. We broke camp at 5 am. Saw one mouse on the road (Calomys or Eligmodontia), and at daybreak, about 3 or 4 tinamous, probably two species. Then climbed over the Sierra from Villa Dolores to General, Paz, across the Pampa de Achala. There was lots of grassy habitat up high, much more than I had remembered from our visit with Jaime Polop; a little bit of recent snow, probably this morning or last night. Arrived at Villa Hermoso/ Las Vaquerias about 3 pm and went for a walk thorough scrubby habitat that seemed quite tropical compared with Patagonia. Jaime Polop and his crew arrived just as we got back from our walk. November 9-11 - Vaquerias; SAREM meetings. There were about 160 registrants. Membership is up from about 40 last year to well over 100 currently. Barquez, Ojeda, Polop, Roig, Merani, Caviedes Sr., Monjeau, and Kravetz were prominent. Vitullo was outstanding in his presentations (as last year). Lots of posters of good quality. Volume 1 Number 2 of Mastozoologia Neotropical was distributed. Luz Gonzales from Valdivia has a breeding colony of Akodon olivaceus and says that she has something like six records of the birth of successive litters without any insemination between litters! There was some discussion of the low quality of the collections in Argentina. Several people agreed that Massoia was off his rocker. No one seems to be thinking in terms of buying his collection for the Buenos Aires or other museum. Susana Merani criticized me and other foreigners for taking specimens out of the country. I told her that I had left hundreds of specimens in various institutions in Argentina and that virtually all of them had just disappeared. This exchange with Merani got me to thinking about what impact I have had on MVZ-style collecting in Argentina. Of the various students that I have had contact with over the past 25 years, not