Pearson - 1988 38 Shermans and 38 Museum Specials. December 13- Ran traps at 8am, overcast. cool. Contained 2 Akodon longipilis, 1 Akodon olivaceus, and 1 Oryzomys. There is some bamboo in a gully there and lots more along the road west towards Arroyo Casa de Piedra. The 4 babies born to Ako 7623 and abandoned weighed 11.6g. Looked at satellite photos of the Cuyin Manzano area in Monica Mermoz's office in Parques. She has one enlarged more than mine, and less contrasty, making it easier to distinguish types of vegetation. She thought it was taken in December of 1982, but from the amount of snow etc. it is more like April, and the date printed on it is early April. Maybe one-quarter of the area is steppe (almost all at the eastern edge), and two-thirds is forest or snow (maybe 1/8th snow). She distinguishes three grades of red as lenga, coihue, and cipres, and cannot detect bamboo. All the high-country forest seems to be lenga, but she didn't mention nire, which can be abundant fairly high up, as near Cerro Bayo. Approaching the Cuyin Manzano from Chile requires going through forest. She says there is a lot of grazing up above the town of Cuyin Manzano, and numerous people living up high in that region during the summer. She follows Flint and Fidalgo for distribution of the glaciers. December 14- Bariloche. Visits from Isobel Gallopin, Adrian Monjeau, and Juliana. Finished off the last Akodons. December 15- To Buenos Aires by air. The precordillera is still totally brown, winter-like; the pampa humeda with lots of standing water but said to be suffering from drought. Phoned Martha Piantanida but she said she had had no success breeding Akodon longipilis. December 16- Buenos Aires. Went out to the Ciudad Universitaria at Nunez to see Kravetz and Reig. The huge new building built in 1964 to escape from the miserable old buildings downtown looked like a disaster area: spray- painted political slogans on every wall, political posters everywhere, trash all over, dark hallways jammed with refrigerators and equipment, and no electricity at all because of the power shortage. 500 students standing in line waiting to enroll in courses. Huge banners draped inside the building's interior court by the student union, Franja Morada, urging the students to complain about things such as only passing 20% of the students enrolled in some course or other. Worst of all, a bust of Evita \peron in the main foyer with fresh flowers at its base. Because of the power outage, nobody was there until noontime, when the power came back on. Then talked with Kravetz about the future joint meeting with the American Society of Mammalogists. Roig will be going to the Alaska meeting. Then met with Reig and his group of students. They told about their various research projects, mostly chromosomes and some electrophoresis of tucos and Akodons. They have a paper in galley proof on Eligmodontia claiming 3 species: Peruvian, pampa-Patagonian, and Los Lagos in Neuquen, all three chromosomally quite different. They said that since submitting the paper they have gotten evidence that two of the species are sympatric near