Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University
Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University
Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University
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gre<strong>at</strong>er kestrel<br />
We stopped in the Thomas Baines N<strong>at</strong>ure Reserve. They have 10 buffalo here, 5 white rhino and<br />
one leopard, several kinds of antelope. But the main purpose of the reserve is to save samples of<br />
the original veget<strong>at</strong>ion in the area.<br />
Our Grahamstown hosts put us up in a bed and breakfast, an elegant old home, but it was always<br />
cold.<br />
We had dinner th<strong>at</strong> evening with P<strong>at</strong> Irwin in his home, and others in the educ<strong>at</strong>ion department,<br />
especially George and Gwenda Euvrard (who was l<strong>at</strong>er to take us to Addo Elephant Park), also<br />
Hennie and Caroline van der Meselt.<br />
P<strong>at</strong> Irwin, Department of Educ<strong>at</strong>ion, Rhodes <strong>University</strong>, P. O. Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South<br />
Africa.<br />
July 27. Thursday.<br />
Lecture in the morning<br />
There was a striking monkey puzzle tree in the campus lawn. Monkeys climb out on long limbs to<br />
get the fruit and the limbs bend down and the monkeys get puzzled.<br />
Lunch with Geoff G. Antrobus, economics and dean of social science, and another economist and<br />
a gradu<strong>at</strong>e student.<br />
Lecture in the afternoon<br />
Trip to Thomas Barnes N<strong>at</strong>ure Reserve, with Derek van Eeden, the manager of the reserve. He<br />
had heard me speak <strong>at</strong> Durban.<br />
mountain tortoise (= leopard tortoise)<br />
6-8 red hartebeest<br />
1 wildebeest<br />
We went to see one million dollars worth of cycads th<strong>at</strong> had been essentially stolen, though taken<br />
with some kind of forged permit in one of the former homelands, and recaptured and planted here.<br />
We had dinner with Felicity Edwards, system<strong>at</strong>ic theology, and Margaret Donaldson, church history.<br />
Edwards did a B.D. <strong>at</strong> the <strong>University</strong> of Edinburgh under Tom Torrance (my advisor).<br />
July 28, Friday.<br />
Morning lecture<br />
I had a brief visit to School of Ichythology, courtesy of Ofer Gon, fisheries biologist who had heard<br />
my talks. The School was founded by a fisheries biologist who was influential in the school here.<br />
He discovered the coelacanths, and one is prominently displayed in the hall, pickled.<br />
Jane went with Anne Irwin to visit two preprimary schools for blacks - one next to finger section of
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