| Description | Giving President Perkins some background information on the proposed visit to Ithaca of Sir Stephen Roberts, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Sydney. Says that Sir Stephen is 'planning this trip to Puerto Rico and the United States mainly for the purpose of visiting Arecibo and Cornell and he is obviously anxious to acquaint himself with this new bedfellow his University has acquired'. Also says that 'It is clear that Sir Stephen himself and the Senate of the University attach very considerable importance to the Cornell-Sydney association as a pilot experience. Also the press and radio here are full of it and it seems to me that the association is regarded here as filling a need to overcome an intellectual isolation which the Australians dread'. Goes on to tell President Perkins about the joint observing programmes between Arecibo and the Mills Cross in Australia. Says that 'There is close liaison and the Australian radio astronomers have been at Arecibo and some of us (Professor Drake and myself) have been in Sydney'. |