September 26, 1960

Memo to File

Call from George Derbyshire: This essentially went over the material covered
in my letter of today's date which, of course, he had not received at the time he
made the call. He was anxious to try to get a meeting of the space board biologists
including Hartline, Pittendrigh, Lambertsen and myself, together with Keith Glennan
and Lloyd Berkner to form the last stages of transition of the Bioastronautics
Committee. Evidently there is some pressure to maintain some sort of executive
committee structure in continuing their activities. The available dates from Lbyd
Berkner's point of view were the evening of the 18th in Washington, any part of
the day on October 23 in Washington, October 25 in New York. Needless to say,
these are almost all out of the question but he will see what he can do about
arranging something at either the begin or end of my own Princeton trip.

He reminded me that it would be desirable to invite Pittendrigh and/or
Lambertsen to this next meeting and this will be done. George indicated that he
himself would probably come out too. He also thought that somebody from NASA
was likely to attend - either Clark Randt or possibly Dick Young. We will
presumably go over the question of the particular role that the Space Science
Board Committee in relation to the NASA committees.