THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
MADISON 6

THE MEDICAL SCHOOL
OFFICE OF THE DEAN

418 NORTH RANDALL September 55 1957

Professor Joshua Lederberg
c/o Professor Sydney D. Rubbo
Department of Bacteriology
University of Melbourne
Carlton N3,

Victoria, Australia

Dear Joshua:

How nice to have your letters and to learn that you are enjoying
the trip! I have always been keen to visit the medical training program
in Suva and am glad that you had an opportunity to do so. I suspect that
some of our Indian areas could profit from a similar program.

Things are moving along nicely here. We have well over 200
people for the Conference on Latency in Virus Infections and the papers
that I have heard have been stimulating and comprehensive, The flow of
replies to our invitation tothe Symposium on Genetics continues to be
active and we have had a number of notes commending the idea of conduct-
ing such a Symposium,

President Fred is currently considering the proposal on Atwood.
He is reluctant to push ahead with the whole program until we can assure
him that we will have money from our State budget to pick up Atwood's
salary when the Rockefeller grant terminates, Unfortunately, I have not
been able to find such money as yet but our Business Manager, Ralph Haw-
ley, is trying to scrape together enough money from Trust Funds to cover
the Program. Both President Fred and Vice President Baldwin have expressed
their enthusiasm for Atwood,

I have forwarded the material which you requested on the syllabus
and other preliminary prospective material to Prof, Frank Fenner at Canberra,

I picked up Ted Puck at the train just an hour ago, He was sorry
that you were not here but sends his warmest greetings.

Please give my regards to Esther and I hope that the work with
Burnet continues to be so interesting.

Yours sincerely,

John 2, Bowers, M.D,
Dean ~~

 

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