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President Joshua Lederberg, a
The Rockefeller University,

1230 York Avenue,
New York, N.Y. 10021.

Dear Josh,

Thank you for your very interesting letter of
December 1, 1980 inviting me to serve on the Council of your
very excellent university.

I shall be delighted to do this and expect to be
able to come to the January meeting on the 28th. The one in
June is not quite so secure because the opening date for Cecil
Green's new medical clinical college at Oxford has not been
set up yet. I would hope to make the June meeting as well of
course if I can arrange the dates at Oxford.

Please assure your chairman of Council, Dr. Jim Linen
that I regard this as a very high honour indeed, and I shall do
my very best to help the wonderful work of your university to
become better recognized internationally, certainly in Canada,
than it may have been in the past. I cannot think of a higher
quality institution, and as you know, I have covered most of the
world in my travels and my teaching.

I send you what must be the last of the reprints which
I have on "The Cost of Not Doing Medical Research". The requests
for reprints have been coming in like snow and I have never had
so many interesting letters about a single brief article as in
this case. I think it simply means that people are ready for
this message and that now is the time to trumpet it from the roof-
tops. Being miserly over the real hope of the human race is
surely counter-productive. I was over at the Government of British
Columbia Cabinet meetings yesterday defending the quarter billion
dollars of the universities' budgets for the province and quoted
them my sign on my office door, "If you think Education is expensive
try ignorance", and the Minister stopped the meeting while he wrote
this down! You can tell what the Legislature is about to hear
today.

Again Josh, I very much appreciate this kind invitation
and it will be a great pleasure to work with you further in the
future.

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President Joshua Lederberg, (cont'd.)

With warm regards,

Yours sincerely,
William C. Gibson, M.D., F.R.C.P.
Chairman

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