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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
2101 CONSTITUTION AVENUE. N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C. 20418
PACIFIC SCIENCE BOARD

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
RALPH E. CLELAND, Chairman
PRESTON E. CLOUD, JR.
HAROLD C. CONKLIN
WARD H. GOODENOUOH
STERLING B. HENDRICKS
CARL L. HUBBS
HARRY C. KELLY
ARTHUR P. LONG
JOSEPH B. PLATT
WALTER ORR ROBERTS
J. C. WARNER
ALAN T. WATERMAN
HAROLD J. COOLIDGE, Exec. Dir.
ROBERT B. SHEEKS, Assoc. Dir.
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5 March 1966

Mr. Joseph T. Callahan
c/o Ground Water Branch
U. S. Geological Survey
Department of the Interior
Washington, D. C. 20242 -- please forward

Korea Address:
Technical Advisor
UFOM/K
APO San Francisco 96301 [[/column 2]]

Dear Mr. Callahan:

Thank you for your letter of 24 February with the helpful comments regarding the proposed ecological research in the DMZ. I am happy to report that there is considerable interest of certain staff members of the Smithsonian Institution in helping Dr. Kang develop his plans. For this reason we are trying to arrange for him to come to the states to attend the Short Course on Administration of National Parks and Reserves at the University of Michigan in May, and come to the Smithsonian in order to discuss plans for the ecological studies in the DMZ. I am sure it would be helpful to Dr. Kan if you could have a further talk with him about some of your ideas for this research so that what you have in mind might be incorporated in plans he would be working on at the time of his Washington visit.

I am pleased that your friends in Japan have encouraged you with regard to the Science Congress.  We have just had word from NIH that they cannot support travel to the Congress.  This leaves us in a most difficult situation as far as getting U. S. participants to the Tokyo meeting for the public health and medical sciences program.

With best wishes for the continued success of your work, and warm personal regards.

Sincerely yours,

Harold J. Coolidge

bcc:  H Buechner with incoming letter