Hendrickson 1950 Journal New Orleans, Louisiana to Miami, Florida Oct. 11 the surrounding riparian vegetation. Many stages in what appeared to be replacement of the cypress were also visible. Perhaps due to filling of the depression, a substrate developed above the waterline, and the surrounding dense riparian vegetation replaced the cypress as the ponds disappeared. Miami, Florida to Bogota, Cundinamarca, Colombia, S. A. Oct. 12 Left Miami Airport after 9:00 A.M. (over 2 hr. delay) and flew non-stop to Baranquilla, Colombia. We passed over two islands, which we assumed to be Cuba and Jamaica. Landed in Baranquilla at about 2:30 P.M. and took off again almost immediately after a health check (smallpox vaccination certificates). Flew S up the Magdalena R. Valley. A great deal of the flat delta region of the Magdalena was flooded. I assume the large amount of water seen - almost as far as one could see from the plane - was due to flooding because house roofs visible in areas of open water, and tongues of forest projecting out into the water and disappearing (at the tips of such tongues of forest, only the tops of trees were visible). As we proceeded S, visibility became more and more limited to gaze in the clouds. I was