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oger Revelle, Papers 1929-1980, MC6, Box 16, f. 38, "La Jolla [University of California, 

 San Diego], 1975," SIO Archives, UCSD. 



19 May 1975 



Dr. Herbert York 



University of California, San Diego 



P.O. Box 109 



La Jolla, California 92037 



Dear Herb: 



This is to let you .know that Ellen and 1 really will be returning to 

 La Jolla at the beginning of 1976. The enclosed copy of a letter to Bill 

 McElroy gives the details. 



I am looking forward with great enthusiasm to the possibility that 

 you. Professor Lakoff and I."can find some beneficial and happy way of 

 combining our mutual interests in Science Policy questions. " As an ernest 

 of my good intentions, enclosed is a reprint of my talk on "The Scientist 

 and the Politician, " given at the 1975 Annual Meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 



For the past seven years I have taught a general education lecture 

 course for graduates and undergraduates here at Harvard entitled, "Hunaan 

 Populations and -N^atural Resources. " Possibly i could be modified to fit 

 into your program. This course is the survivor of half a dozen courses 

 on the environment, population and development which sprang up and died 

 down here during the past several years. Last fall we had about 200 stu- 

 dents. 



In a separate letter , Professor Lakoff has suggested that the three 

 of us might offer a new course on the general subject of Industrialization 

 and its political and social impact. I am not sure I know enough about in- 

 dustrialization to be able to say anything very useful about it, but I am 

 willing to try to learn. In contrast, I have become more or less of an 

 expert on problems of agricultural modernization and food production, and 

 maybe these could be fitted into what he has in mind. 



I have agreed, perhaps foolishly, to give the connmencennent address 

 at Revelle College on June 15, and Ellen and I will be coming out for that 



