UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, THE ASHWORTH LABORATORY

WEST MAINS ROAD, EDINBURGH, 9 TEL. 42080

 

PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY: MICHAEL SWANN, M.A, PH.D.
13th February, 1957

Dear Joshua,

First, I shall certainly be here on Saturday March Zird,
and possibly also on the Friday and Sunday. I shall be expecting
you on the Saturday, will leave the day free, and will ring
Waddington up for the latest news. It will be a very great
pleasure for me to see you and your wife again.

Second, I felt very honored that you should be looking
out for a job for me. I enclose curriculum vitae and bibliography;
but right now you woul? bs wasting your tire looking, for the
following reason. This summer Lorna Martin and 4 are getting
married. We have discussed the possibility of moving to the USA
together. She has not been there, and would like to have the
chance of locking before deciding anything definite. Fortunately
we are in a position to do just this, because Harvard has been
kind enough to arrange for me to give a course February~-June
next year. Consequently I might be on the look-out in about 18
months time, but not before. I should also say, in confidence,
thet Harvard indicated that they might have a more permanent
job for me as an embryologist. This tempted me greatly, partly
because of Jim “atson's company.

Yes, the polyploidy in the H-segregations is certainly
a complication. Recently I have been inducing a series of
Leukaemias, in order to provide ascites material which should |
make the cytology easier. The Kleins seem to be about to do

much the same e xperiment.
‘ton Lor

Dari