February 27, 1964

Dr. Eric M. Shooter
34 Carlton Road
Redhill, Surrey

Dear Eric:

Are you beginning to make definite plans about returning to Stanford? We are
looking forward to having you here, and have been able to reserve a lab module
for you in the basement complex,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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From our standpoint, the soonest possible is best.

The new building is well started — at present itiis a very large, deep and
nofsy hole into which they are just starting to pour concrete, NB above
should not be bad at all for you for the year or fifteen months meantime,

Under separate cover I am sending some reprints from Silvio Varon. He is
very anxious to come here, e.g. ag a senior research fellow, pending some.
possibility of a sturdier appotutment perhaps in anatomy or neurology. The
only possibility would be in some loose connection with you (most cogent,
sharing your space). Knowing a lot of neurocytology, he could be a valuable
partner; in Che other hand, you might prefer minimum complications at this
Stage, We have to say something in a month or two; he would be available
sometime after September, What do you think?

If you want to carry on further with hin yourself, you could write him at
the Department of Zoology, Washingoen University, St. Louis, Missouri, where
he is working now vith Levi~Montalcini, He has also worked with Mellwain,

Dean Alway is resigning in June to return to academic life -- I hardly blame

his. A fair bit of fues to find a replacement, but the committee is off to
a good start,

HS

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ALG

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Troubles with NIH have settled down, and there should be clear two or three
years of assured and rather generous financing of the NB project before we
need think much more about it, and this should really be enough to make a
useful dent to justify further need, We have gone fairly heavily into instru
mentation lately, especially computers, We have a dandy small computer <=

the ‘LINC’ ~= to tie to our own instruments and help with wire access to the
larger computers at ehe Computation Center, and this is coming along beautifully,
A Bendix time-of-flight mass spectrometer has just arrived which we expect to
tie to the LINC; principal aim ig to explore use in sequence analysis, We are
also sheawing the ATLAS CH=4 with Djerassi in Chemistry as a complement ary
machine to the Bendix (high resolution vs. fast scan and easy inlet).

So hurry on over,

As ever, the best from

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics