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HENRY STOMMEL ae r pens 
ROOM 54-1416 M. I. T. OL patel x Nora) O25 
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., 02189 
Mareh 10, 1975 
Professor James M. Moulton 
Department of Biology 
Bowdoin College 
Brunswick, Maine 04011 
Dear Jim: 
Thank you over so much for the kind invitation to 
give one of the Elliott Lectures at Bowdoin next Fall. 
I would like to do so, and would impulsively say yes 
were it not for the grim fact that later on I would Pina 
myself committed, unprepared, and unable to give the kind 
of lecture that would be fun to give and listen to. I just 
know that it would work out that way, because of the heavy 
commitments that I have allowed to encumber me. 
Another point worth considering is that there are 
several younger men whom I think could be more inspiring to 
your undergraduates - men who are making serious contribu- 
Gions to oceanography, going to sea, setting up and designing 
experiments - but who are nearer to the undergraduates by 
a score or so years - and whose ambience, identification with 
the audience, might make them more attractive speakers. And 
perhaps actually have a good deal more to say. 
I think that you should consider asking Dr. James 
Luyten or Dr. William Schmitz at Woods Hole Oceanographic 
Institution. 
I am grateful to you for the friendship which you 
have extended to Elijah. He is a serious student and 
pleasant person. Next Fall I think he will be spending a 
year at MIT as a special student before going back to Bowdoin 
in 1976-77 to finish up. 
Hoping that you will accept my reasonSeec.cee 
Yours truly, 
Henry/ Stommel 
