Activity Listings
- AHP writes cheque to: Action Books amount $3.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
- AHP writes cheque to: Boys' Athletic League amount $2.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
- AHP writes cheque to: Collectors of Internal Revenue amount $11.45 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
- AHP writes cheque to: Committee for the Nations Health amount $5.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
- AHP writes cheque to: Los Angeles County Pound Department amount $2.00 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
- AHP writes cheque to: Richfield Oil Company amount $13.81 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.022, Folder #2]
- Letter from LP to Dr. James V. Neel, University of Michigan RE: LP thanks Neel for reprints and invites him to come to the laboratory even though Itano is no longer there. [Letter from Neel June 4, 1954] [Filed under N: Correspondence 1954, Box #287.21]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Robert F. Loeb, College of Physicians and Surgeons (NY) RE: Inquiring if it might be possible for Dr. Richard Lippmann to apply for the Daland Fund of the American Philosophical Society to continue his research on nephritis. [Loeb's reply August 26, 1954] [Filed under L: Individual Correspondence, Box #217.5]
- Letter from LP to Prof. F. O. Simon RE: Congratulating Simon on his Knighthood. [Simon's reply August 3, 1954] [Filed under S: Individual Correspondence, Box #365.2]
- Letter from LP to W. H. Freeman RE: LP believes it would be beneficial for Freeman to acquire the copyright to Rollefson and Burton's book on photochemistry and publish a new edition of it. [Filed under Correspondence: W. H. Freeman and Company 1954, Box #439.12]
- Letter from LP to W. H. Freeman. [Filed under Correspondence: W. H. Freeman and Company 1954, Box #439.12]
28 July 1954
Mr. Wm. H. Freeman
549 Market Street
San Francisco 5, Calif.
Dear Bill:
I talked with Van Niel in Carmel. I said a few words to him about writing a book on microbiology. He expressed the highest admiration for you, and I had the impression that if he ever were to write a book, he would be glad to have you publish it. I did not pursue the matter further.
I mentioned the book by Oginsky and Umbreit. He made some strong statements. In particular, he said that Oginsky was a very opinionated man, who held to his own ideas about some parts of microbiology, and refused to read the literature, although these questions had been discussed and in some cases settled by earlier workers. He volunteered the example of the motion of bacterial flagella, which I had discussed in my note to you, page 4. He said that Oginsky was simply wrong about this, and that earlier workers had settled the question of flagella motion. There is no doubt that the discussion on page 36 of the book is very bad.
Van Niel also said that Kluyver had said something to him about Oginsky, namely, that he was a young man who refused to discuss scientific questions, in order to find out whether he was right or not.
Perhaps you would think it worth while to talk with Van Niel about Oginsky before you make final arrangements with him for the other book.
Sincerely yours,
Linus Pauling:W
- Note from LP to R.F. Bacher: Here is the requested list of research fellows for 1953-1954. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.21, file: (B correspondence, 1954)]
- Receipt from The Faraday Society for a subscription (3 ) for Peter Pauling (LP paid). [Filed under F Correspondence, Box #128.19]
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