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January 7, 1972 
AIRMAIL 
D. Carleton Gajdusek, M.D. 
NINDS, National Institute of Health 
Bethesda, Maryland 20014 
Dear Doctor Gajdusek: 
I recently talked to Doctor Walter Garey on the phone at the Scrlpps 
Institution of Oceanography. I was fortunate enough to work with Scrlpps on the 
Alpha/Hellx last summer In their project out at the Marshall Islands. I spent 
three of the last four years In the tropics working as a neurologist In Samoa, 
the Marshall Islands and have visited Fiji and a number of the other tropical 
Islands. 
I understand you are going to do a survey of the slow virus diseases of the 
nervous system In the New Hebrides and Solomon Islands sometime In the later 
part of this year. I did a survey of neurological diseases In Western Samoa In 
1970. I would be extremely Interested In participating In your project to the 
South Pacific this fall. I would not expect any type of renumeration. I am 
particularly Interested In the slow viruses since I have two children that I saw 
In consultation with a pediatrician In Ceylon when I was on the Project HOPE In 
1968 and I am preparing to submit their cases to the editor of one of the 
neurological journals In the next few weeks. 
My schedule Is loose enough that I could be available anywhere from six 
weeks to two months time. I am enclosing a copy of my curriculum vitae for your 
perusal. 
Very sincerely yours, 
William W. Anderson, M.D 
