Pearson - 1995 1 Journal - 1995 October 26.- Arrived Bariloche 6:30 p.m. from Buenos Aires. Steppe is pretty brown still, some green in the Estancia El Condor marshy ground but very few sheep seen. Temperature warm. In town the tulips, narcissus, and some plum/cherry trees are blooming. Looked for Oswaldo Ramirez at the Hotel Sol, but he was not in. Returned to the apartment and Oswaldo, his wife and little daughter were there. Turned over the primers from Peg Smith and talked about Phyllotis. October 27.- Warm. Oswaldo came to the apartment and we discussed his thesis proposal: "Sistematica y relaciones evolutivas del genero Phyllotis". He has a good grasp of the genus and has done some collecting in Peru. He is from Lima, his wife from Cuzco, but is currentbly in Valdivia with Miton Gallardo on a German fellowship. The University in Valdivia will not allow him to leave for more than 2 months to collect data in Peru, and I gather that Milton is not wild about the thesis project, although Oswaldo is hoping that Milton will be the major professor. He has been in touch with Spotorno and with Steppan. I gather that he has no experience with DNA sequencing. He was attending the Genetics Congress here this past week, together with Spotorno and Gallardo. In the afternoon went to see Christie, but Laurence Sympson was there instead and said that Michael went to Chile for 2 days and has been gone seven. Laurence says he is still occupying the house at La Primavera. The town is full of small computerized signs opposing the construction of a new dam on the Rio Limay. "No to a second Angostura", "No dam at Angostura 2nd", "El Rio Limay vive. No lo maten". Temperature during the day up to 73. October 28.- Day clear and warm. Overnight minimum 50. Got the car running (battery down),otherwise seems OK. Shopping, playing with GPS, then visited Jorge Vallerini (Patricia is out of town). He says the winter was very cold for days on end, numerous snow storms but not one big blizzard as in 1984. Drought in