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26 /March /85

Howard M. Temin
McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research
Department of Oncology
Medical School
University of Wisconsin
450 North Randall Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin 53706

Dear Howard:

I am delighted that you will help with the nomenclature business.
it would be helpful to have some discussion, but a meeting seems prohibitively
expensive, and a multi-continental conference call difficult to arrange.
I hope a consensus can be reached by mail, but the tenor of letters like

I agree

do not auger well.

What do you think of "human AIDS virus"?

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Conflicting engagements (and a distaste for the previous meeting) will keep
me from the gene therapy meeting on April 1. However, I will make a particular
effort to be on hand for consideration of the first proposals, and I hope to
see you then.

I agree with Gould's sentiments; Thanks for the copy.

Best regards,

Harold E. Varmus, M.D.
American Cancer Society
Professor of Molecular Virology