Item #115554 A typed letter signed by David Baltimore to The Honorable Barry O. Jones, declining an invitation to deliver the Centenary Burnet Oration. American biologist born 1938, Nobel Prize winner.

A typed letter signed by David Baltimore to The Honorable Barry O. Jones, declining an invitation to deliver the Centenary Burnet Oration

Quarto, one page, on California Institute of Technology letterhead, 3 November 1998.

Two horizontal creases where folded for posting; in fine condition, with the original envelope.

'Each year at the ASID [Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases] scientific meeting, a world-renowned expert in infectious diseases is invited to give the Macfarlane Burnet Oration, named in honour of the Nobel Prize-winning Australian virologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, a pioneer in the fields of virology and immunology' (ASID website). Baltimore politely declines the offer due to other travel commitments, adding 'Please accept my best wishes for a festive celebration of Mac Burnet's 100th Birthday'.

Provenance: Collection of The Hon Barry Jones AC.

Item #115554

Price (AUD): $300.00