THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY

1230 YORK AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10021

 

JOSHUA LEDERBERG July 28, 1981

PRESIDENT

iL ve. Robert Porter

The John Curtin School
of Medical Research

P. 0. Box 334

Canberra City 2601

Australia

Dear Dr. Porter:

Your most welcome letter of June 24th arrived while I
was off campus for a few weeks; and I hasten to reply at
this opportunity.

Yes I am indeed aware of The John Curtin School! and
am honored and delighted to respond to your invitation to
join its Advisory Council. You have no way of knowing the
depth of my own affiliation with Australian science, although
it is unhappily 24 years since I have visited. On the other
hand I have managed to maintain a warm personal contact with
some of your colleagues and stand ready to serve in any way
that I can. I do not know whether a visit to Canberra would
be compatible with my schedule but let us just see about that.
Probably most convenient for myself would be sometime in July
or August 1982, preferably in the interval between July 19
and July 31 or the week of August 23. But as you say perhaps
there is a great deal we can do regardless of a visit on the
site.

I will study the 1980 Annual Report that you sent me
together with any other material that you think may be
pertinent. In particular I wonder if you would give me a
little more of your own biographical background and research
in neurobiology; and of course if you have any further state-
ments of your views beyond what was in the Annual Report that
would be most welcome.

By separate cover I will reciprocate.

My best regards especially to Dr. Fenner.

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