Letter from H Bondi, University of Sydney to Howard Walter Florey, Queen's College, Oxford Australian progress concerning 150" Southern hemisphere telescope has been disappointing - comments on idea that delay is due to T M Cherry, President of the Australian Academy - great enthusiasm for telescope in quarters concerned - Macfarlane Burnet will succeed Cherry in April and is considered a man who could push the project with energy, but it is not know how Burnet feels about idea - comments on this - discusses Australian attitude towards manufacture of the telescope and towards proposal that contract should go to the United Kingdom firm of Grubb Parsons. 11 January 1965