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COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION

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DIVISION OF PLANT INDUSTRY

TELEGRAMS : CORESEARCH, CANBERRA P.O. BOX 109, CITY.

TELEPHONE : J 0455

CANBERRA, A.C.T.,

In reply please refer to

25th October, 1957

Dr. Joshua Lederberg,
Departnent of Bacteriology,
University of Melbourne,

Carlton, N.3. vic.

Dear Josh,

I hope you don't mind if I bother you with a request for help
on behalf of one of my young colleagues. Owing to the short-
ness of your visit you were not able to meet Fraser Bergersen,
one of our Rhizobium workers, whose name I mentioned to you
as one of those I was hoping you would get to know. He is
one of our ablest young men and is highly regarded by all of
us and certainly be Philip Nutman who, as you may know, was
with us for three years. Bergersen has made excellent pro-
gress in his study of infection mechanisms and metabolism of
Rhizobium. He would now very much like to spend a year at
Wisconsin and the purposes of this visit are explained in

the enclosed copy cf a letter to Dr. Wilson.

I think Bergersen was a little modest in suggesting that his
chance of a C.5.1.R.0. studentship is not great, but since
there is usually a very strong and large field for these very
few studentships, I would say that it is by no means a
certainty, and I have encouraged him to look for other
avenues.

My question to you now is, do you think you could write to
Dr. Wilson and support Bergersen's letter? You could at
least say what you think of the institution in which he
works.

Kindest regards,

Yours ever

OW

(O.H. Frankel)