ISTITUTO DI GENETICA
UNIVERSITA DI PAVIA

PAVIA
VIA SANT’ EPIFANIO, 14 - TEL, 23,029

24/6/60
Dear Joshua,

I am enclosing a schedule of our trip,which is still ,~/-",
subject to some changeeApparently Mexico is booked up because I could
not get the reservations I wanted. In particular it was difficult
to fly from Mexico City to SFO on the 5th,and the only sure reserva-
tion in my hand is the one given in the schedule. As it arrives at
impossible hours, we plan to stay in San Francisco for the night,and
call you in the morning froa the hotel (at some time like 8 a.m. )ag.
However,it is very likely that ,once in Mexico City,we shall be able
to get a better plane for the day 5th or the 6th.

I think that if you can plan a meeting with the students,
for organizational purposes,for the afternoon ofbdthe Tth,it will be
practically certain that I shall be there,because I will sive up my
present reservation only if I can amkixapatexixx get an earlier one.
In particular I am waitlisted for a flight on the 6th via “os Angeles,
getting to SFO on 5 p.m. approx. I will cable you from Mexico City as
soon as I shall know ,

As it seems that we shall have to leave Merida sooner than
I wanted, and Kexico City later than wanted, I should have time to
meet “r.Djerassi. If you had any opportunity of telling him that 1
wWedld like to pay him a short visit;I would appreciate it.

I will have with me Interist reports,past and present,
and will tell you of the several reasons for dbaay.Some of the “ice
programmes are startin the lag in these things is always an incre-
dible one) and,I hope fa the end,xuakt almost everything will be done.

I am apologetic for having been such a bad correspondents
especially in these last two-three months,my activity has Peon fran-
tic. I am looking forward to omy viwit to Stanford,among/other reasons,
for the possibilitx of working without being in a turmoil.

I hope the delay will not affectthe course. It should not,
as I found at Pavia that” with 20 lectures one can obtata a pretty good
coverage of the field. If the students are willing, we can do more
than three lectures a week (at least for some week).But the real pro-
blem is how much mathematics the students are willing to absorb (or
tolerate). If,as likely,thmis amount is small,there is no point in
Biving much: more than twenty lectures. In such a case in fact there
is no hope of préving the theorems,or explaining the methods at
lengthyxmmremwery, except for the really fundamental ones.

See you again at Stanford ! ;

Uo

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ISTITUTO DI GENETICA
UNIVERSITA DI PAVIA

PAVIA
VIA SANT’ EPIFANIO, 14 - TEL, 23,029

P.S. May @ ask you a favor
in an envelope and send it
Dept.,Pavia.”he needs some
to find it in Italg.I will
if she could have a little

? Put a small amount of shikimic acid
airmail to Barbara Fargie,Genetics

for her work and we have not managed
order it from the States ,but meanwhile
amount she could go on working.
L., Cavalli-Sforza's

 

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