Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
The point of species is amazing.
Not a hammer or damage was seen.
(1) Day clear & warm with great
much reflection of the sun on the
white pavements.
(2) Spent the morning in the
gr. Parque Cousinaya. It is
a really beautiful park large size
with green variety of pines, oaks,
pipper trees, eucalyptus, bamboo
& flowers. Beneath the trees is a
yard growing lawn carefully
cut & watered. Even in the
large wood slake country birds were
few. On the afternoon I
went to another large
park, the Botanical Garden &
Museum Natural. The place
was labelled Distrito Normal. Many
of the trees were very old or large
size. Giant Sycamores, oaks,
maples pines, elms & magnolias
abounded. The museum was
closed for 2 months. The park
was almost as large as the Cousinaya.
I learned afterward that the
park attendants had allowed