C. Koford 17 Journal March 5, 1951 Lima, Peru my licence. Visited at the museum and saw the collection of study skins. The larger birds (macaws, eioniformes, nuthatches) stacked on top of one another on narrow shelves of book cases with glass doors. The smaller birds stacked like cordwood on deep trays of 2 wooden cabinets. The Ramondí collection, taken in the 1870's, was hodge podge with the rest and many birds had to be handled to get at any particular specimen. Then had been no collecting between Ramondí and 1935, according to Ortiz. Ortiz realized the sad state of the collection & the need for space - having been at Chicago museum for 6 months - but so far he had been able to do nothing about it. (The director, Villard, was interested in venomous snakes, frogs, & ethnology, and had done work in Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia etc.). Ortiz had a paper on bats of the Lima area in manuscript. There were 14 species accounted for. Many photographs of live bats, bat caves, & skulls of all (some). This paper to be published within five months. Talked at length with a German, Dr. Wilhelm Köpcke, who was an ecologist who had come to Peru because it offered a great many ecological situations within a small area. His special interest was marine invertebrates, He knew Stresemann and Lorenz and seemed to have a fair knowledge of modern ecology. I returned to Hotel Marry, then went to the Clínica Anglo-Americana for the physical & mental health