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- 29 December 1964-28 September 1970 (Creation)
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Comprises correspondence between Bronowski, other members of the Board of Trustees of the Salk Institute, and some other staff members. Correspondents include: George S. Conn (Treasurer, Salk Institute) mainly relating to the finances of the Salk Institute; Augustus Kinzel (President, Salk Institute); William Bernbach (President, Doyle Dane Bernbach, Inc.) on Bronowski sending copies of his writings; Gerard Piel (Publisher, 'The Scientific American' journal) about a proposal for Leslie Orgel to write an article on aging; [Alan] Bullock (Vice-Chancellor, Oxford University) on keeping up-to-date with developments at the Salk Institute; Harry E Green (Senior Vice President, Container Corporation of America) on the election of foreign nationals as trustees; and Joseph Slater (President, Salk Institute) on grants from the National Foundation and Sloan Foundation (1970).
Subjects include: an application to the Ford Foundation for a grant, financial reports, and Basil O'Connor (President, The National Foundation) sending H. E. White (National Foundation) to conduct a financial review of the Salk Institute (1966, copies of letters with the National Foundation are included).
Also includes a telegram from Basil O'Connor calling for an urgent meeting of Salk Institute and National Foundation Boards of Trustees (1966), and reports sent to Trustees about the activities of the Salk Institute (1966).