December 26, 1972

Dr. Gus Nossal

The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Post Office, Royal Melbourne Hospital

Victoria 3050 AUSTRALIA

Dear Gus,
Are you by chance coming to New York on February 5-6 ?

If so, would you be coming through San Francisco? Besides my
obvious desire to have a chance to see you again in a friendly way,
I also had in mind that I would like you to meet one of my colleagues,
Dr. Alan Duffield. He is playing a central role in our program for the
computerization of mass spectrometry and its application to biochemical
ptoblems and I certainly do not want to lose him and particularly not
in the next year or two. However, I think he has a long-range aspiration
to return to Australia in some kind of academic “igs and I thought it was
not too soon to lay the groudd work for scouting the possibilities. I do
not expect, accept through some remarkable coincidence, that the Hall
Institute itself would have a role in this rather specialized kind of
development, although this ies not impossible. However, I do believe
that you must be very much in touch with the more forward lines of thinking

about medical and biological research in Australia and could be one of
your colleagues a great turn by knowing about Duffield's qualifications.

In any case, if you are coming either to New York or to Stanford as
well, I look forward to seeing you and with my best regards,

Sincerely yours,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

JL/rr