July 15, 1957

Dear Jim:

Your note mich appreciated. Indigisiista mikes quite a pun, or did I misunder-
stand ite meaning? “

I just had a letter from Seymour, and it seems to me that your both coming
down to meet us fa too mach of a good thing, especially at that hour of the
morning. We are going to be visiting Berkeley quite a few times in the oext
several months, and we are going to wear out our welcome if you exert yourself
too far. We would count it 4 special favor if you would arrange batween your-
selves for one of you to meet us, and another to bring us back, when noleave
Tuesday aight. You really are too kind.

We are making a slight change of plan, that is to leave Misdison just one day
earlier, so we arrive at San Francisco airport on flight UA541 early Friday
morning, instead of Satubday. Otherwise, ali's the sane.

Now, the plane 4s soheduled to arrive at 0530, but like aa not it will be a
little late. Further, we would just as soon wash up, rest up, and have a spot
of breakfast at the airport before we face anyones, end I also have to make some
arrangegents about trans-shinping. Ulflesa the flight is delayed, may we count
on looking for you or Seymour no earlier than 0700 either at the restaurant
or the PAA ccunter?

I'm sending Darlington's book by separate mail—thanks very much. It was too
irritating in its dogmatiam for ms to finish it in one attack; I'l] have to get
around to it later on.

From the gist of your remrke I gather there won't be mich occasion for concrete
discussion of lab plana. Unless I hear from you to the contrary I'll assume as
mich for this trip. Maybe we can do more in November on our way back, if we
do return vie Weetooast rather than rouné-the-world. We're still toying with
the idea of going back via India and Europe, but not as enthusiastically as ;
had been. I've been formally invited (and accepted) to serve as a 'vice#president{
(4.0. a paid attendant) at the Internagional Congress of Microbiology at Stock-
holm in August '58: we thought to attend the Genetice Congress at Montreal on
the way back. All this travelling and meetings is (I hops) very much out of
character for us—- probably our just dearts for havéng been so negative about
them during the last few years. If our moving date were about Sept. 1 '58, I
would hops our formal appointgents could be arranged for August 1, so that
we'd be spared the embarrassment of asking the 'favor' of this additional
off-campus leave as our last dealing Before leaving. This 1s one of the details
we'll have to talk about. In stressing ‘medicine! in my last letter I «as
thinking mainly of organisational developments. Medicine and Agriculture are
both the applications of Biology, and it seems fairly obvious that a better
balance of mpport for fumiamntal biological research from both angles is
coming about.

Yours,

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