MAY 8 1972

‘THE WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH

POSTAL ADDRESS: POST OFFICE. ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL, VICTORIA 3050. AUSTRALIA. TELEPHONE 347-1511

 

AFFILIATED WITH

THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
AND DIRECTOR: PROFESSOR G. J. V. NOSSAL, C.B.E., F.aA.A.
THE ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL . . ee

oth May, 1972

Professor Joshua Lederberg,
Department of Genetics,

Stanford University Medical Center,
STANFORD, California 94305,
U.S.A.

Dear Joshua,

Many thanks for your frank and friendly letter of April 27th.
All of us understand the desperate problem of competing priorities,
and appreciate your willingness to seriously consider the possibility
of an Australian trip. Our pattern has been to alternate overseas
and Australian Rubbo orators - this year it is Roger Stanier and
next year it will be Frank Fenner. We shall have to move on an
alternative lecturer for 1974 within six months or so, and I believe
the schedule that you have presented for us suggests you will not be
in a position to have totally made up your mind by six months from
now, so I suspect we would be more realistic in planning for a visit
by you around 1976. Needless to say, we will try to fit in with your
plans as much as we can, as and when they mature. The prospect of
welcoming you at some defined time in the futhre is most exciting,
and Ido hope you will regard our invitation as an essentially "open"
one, to be activated entirely at your discretion. There will be some
constraints on us, but given adequate advance notice, we should be in
a position to work out something satisfactory.

Warm regards to all my friends in your Department and
at the University generally.

Yours, as ever

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