Pearson - 1994 slopw with pure pellin and another slope with pure nire. He knew Luis Pena, Art Shapiro, etc , but did not know the local mammals. December 9- Bariloche. Sunny and warm. Nora came to discuss her thesis. Record heat in Neuquen, the river very high there (from snowmelt)? Deceber 10- Bariloche. Sunny, warm. Visited with Nelly Frei de Neumeyer in her marvelous flower garden, including three of the four kinds of Ceonothus the seeds of which we sent her. Her father imported from Chillan in Chile many of the exotics of Bariloche This would have been early 1920s. Roth and Runge would come back from Chile not with chocolates but with plants. December 11- Bariloche. Sunny and warm. Anglo-Argentine picnic. Met Arturo Amos, a geologist, Director of PROGEBA. Lorenzo Sympson says that the rainfall this year at Estancia La Primavera is above normal and everything is nice and green. December 12- Drizzly all day. Went to Puerto Blest. The new Interpretative Center is very nicely done, but is off the route taken by most of the tourists, so will not have the impact that it might. Counted flowering bamboo from the playing field to El Abuelo and back: 5 flowering clumps on the river side of the road, 3 on the opposite side; total 8. Our big clump in the forest by the big tree had 2 dead shoots (both parasitized) and 4 yearling culms, 1 live new shoot. The small clump in the second growth forest had 2 dead shoots, both parasitized, 1 yearling, and about 7 new shoots. An MD-PhD tourist from Minnesota stood by the Cascada at Los Cantaros and said: "We have a lot of falls like this in Minnesota." Michael Christie came by in the evening. Two of Eileen's radio-collared sociabilis were found dead on top of the ground, apparently killed by septicemia. He brought barn owl pellets from Laguna Los Juncos. December 13- Bariloche. Sunny, warm. Eileen brought an owl pellet from her study area. She is about to move across the river to Estancia San Ramon. She, John, and Stan came for lunch. John and Tommy Christie are about to hike up above La Lipela looking for tucos. Michael says that there are tucos on steep sandy slopes above Dolly Frei's place at Paso Coihue, on the transect from Cullin Manzano to Brazo Huemul.