' UNIVERSITY of WASHINGTON
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY
SEATTLE 5

May 21, 1958

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Medical Genetics
Genetics Building

School of Medicine

The University of Wisconsin
Madison 6, Wisconsin

Dear Joshua:

Thank you for sending me the information about Dr. Bernstein. I have
forwarded copies of this to members of the Committee timaérame respons-
ible for nominating the Head of our Diagnostic Bacteriological Laboratories.

Lane Barksdale has declined our offer, so we are once more actively ex-
amining the field of candidates. We have more than sixty names submitted
by various people, but very few of those on the list have records that will
give confidence in their capabilities in both diagnostic bacteriology and
in investigative work.

I shall miss seeing you at future meetings in Bethesda, since we are now
both leaving the Microbiology Study Section. However, I hope that you will
bear in mind my invitation to come to Seattle sometime on one of your trips
west. If you can let me know a few weeks in advance, there is a good chance
that I can arrange a fifty dollar honorarium in return for a half-hour dis-
cussion of some of the things of current interest to you. This would be
listed as a seminar but would certainly not need to be the kind of talk that
would require much preparation. In fact, I am sure that with a few well-
chosen slides you could give an extemporaneous chat on anything microbiolog-
ical that happens to strike your fancy and this would be very well received.

With best wishes,

Sincerely yours,
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Charles A. Evans -
Professor and Executive Officer

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