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- 16 May 1964-13 April 1966 (Creation)
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Comprises: memoranda to Augustus Kinzel (President, Salk Institute) from Ed Lennox (Fellow, Salk Institute) about matters discussed at the annual fellows meeting (1966) including extending tenure appointments to below Senior Fellow level, expansion of the Institute faculty, negotiation with the University of California about the use of Institute space, and the need to improve the library and eating spaces in the Institute; correspondence relating to Fred Wilt being recommended for appointment as an Associate Fellow of the Salk Institute by Seymour Benzer; and a note from Gerard Piel (publisher, Scientific American) about Jerzy Konorski with a press cutting entitled 'Scientists weigh pact with Poles'.
Correspondents discussing Fred Wilt are Renato Dulbecco, Francis Crick, Warren Weaver, Leslie Orgel and Seymour Benzer.
Also includes photocopies of biographies of [people under consideration for tenure] Dr Theodore H Bullock, Dr Stephen William Kuffler, Professor James Olds, and Dr Roger Wolcott Sperry.