Letter from Howard Walter Florey to the Editor, The Observer, Tudor Street, London Interested in paragraph in Pendennis's column of 24 June, headed "Road to Rome" - quotes paragraph about E B Chain's attempt to persuade the British Government of the need for a research and development centre - all Chain's former colleagues in the Department at Oxford are interested in the source of this statement, which, if repeated often enough, will be thought true. 26 June 1951