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March 16, 1973 
Dr. Walter Garey 
Program Manager 
Alpha Helix Program 
Scrlpps Institution of Oceanography 
P.0, Box 109 
La Jolla, California 92307 
Dear Dr . Garey : 
Enclosed is a report of our Alpha Helix expedition, which I hope will serve 
your purpose. I think it will be quite evident that the nature of our work on 
this expedition is quite different from most of the others, in that medical work 
with patients on islands where it was rarely possible to get the islanders to or 
from the ship, was necessarily shore-based. Most of the time the seas were too 
rough to do even the simplest laboratory work, and to have used the ship's 
facilities for other than the emergency procedures needed for diagnosis and 
treatment would have been quite unjustified at times. Thus, the most 
significant laboratory findings will be slow in emerging from our own and other 
laboratories in the three countries and over the years you should have a series 
of publications resulting from the expedition to cite. 
Would you please let me know of the use you put this report to, and should 
any or all of it be published — with or without modifications — could I see a copy 
of the galley proofs? 
Sincerely, 
D. Car let on Gajdusek, M.D 
