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This conference was only twenty to thirty minutes in length. Mr. WALLACE afforded a11 photographers opportunity to take pictures, and No. 492 is submitting, as an enclosure with this report, the negative and a print of a photograph of this conference. At 7:00 ofclock, Mr. WALLACE had a fifteen minute reception for the chiefs of the diplomatic missions accredited to Peru. Only about fifty persons were present, and it was very informal, Mr. WALLACE making no stetements of a political or diplomatic nature. At 7:15 peme, Mr. WALLACE received the Archbishop of Lima. This reception was private in nature for the Archbishop and his associates, and no press releases or publicity were given to it. At 7:30 pem., the Mayor of Lima, Sr. LUIS GALLO PORRAS, visited the Vice-President, together with representatives of his Municipal Commission, and presented a parchment scroll naming Mr. WALLACE “An-Illustrious Guest of the City". At this time the Mayor elso extended a formal invitation to the Vice-President to attend a dinner that same evening at the Lima Tennis Glub. Mr. WALLACE graciously accepted this invitation as well as the scroll] naming him an honorary citizen of Lima. At 8:30 p.m., a formal dinner was offered by the Mayor of Lima at the Exposition Tennis Club, where entertainment and music was presented in order to give the Vice-President an opportunity to hear typical Peruvian music and to witness typical Peruvian dancing. This dinner was in the nature of a pachamanca (Peruvian barbecue. Approximately twelve hundred persons were present at this dinner, and Mr. WALLACE was received heartily by all. He retired to the Palace early in the evening. The entertainment at the tennis club was designated as “Noche Peruana" and was presented by outstanding theatrical and scenic artists of Lima. The evening's souvenir program is an enclosure with this report. On Tuesday, Apri] 13th, Mr. WALLACE paid a visit to the La Molina agricultural stetion at 9:00 aem. This station is approximately four miles from Lima. Upon returning from the agricultural exhibit, Mr. WALLACE, et 10:00 a.m., visited the botanical gardens connected with the Faculty of Medicine of San Marcos University, which are considered to ve the most excellent of their kind and have recently received attention by high medical and botanical officials from the United States. At the gardens, Mr. WALLACE, with due ceremony, planted an Oropel tree from eastern Peru.