June 18, 1984

Kwang Jeon

Univ. TN

Dept.

of Zoology

Knoxville, TN 37996

Lear Kwang:

Under separate cover I’m sending you

A

New Protozoon which is Roger

Wyburn-Mason’s original publication on his Limax amoeba findings. It

was difficult to find, but well worth it, as it delineates the way in which

he went about isolating the amoeba.

It also appears as though some question remains (in my mind and from

Dr. Neff) on whether or not the amoeboid characteristics are

that of the slime amoeba.... in any case Tony has not yet identified the genus

and order of the characteristics found in Roger’s book.

I am also enclosing photos from Pybus and Davis. From Neff’s comments they

appear indeed to be amoeba, and not macrophages — although the last corre-

spondence from Pybus and Davis was that they thought they’d

only identified macrophages .... could be, since they’re not protozoologists, they

simply don’t know what they’re looking at, and they’re afraid they may be wrong.

Just before Roger died, he phoned me with delight, saying that Pybus and Davis had

found exactly what he’d found, and he wondered why it had taken everyone so

long....

We are having a meeting at the Americana Hotel in Atlanta July 14, 1984.

Physicians will be reporting their progress to date, and Tony will be reporting

his work under Neff. I will send you more information later, but hope you can

find your way to be there.

Jack Blount says he is at a loss as to what to send you now. May I suggest that

you mail to him (address on attached sheet) how to purchase a non-life nutrient,

and also where, and send instructions on how to enclose it with his sample? If

you can do that, send me a copy, and I’ll forward it to Bingham, also.... or you

can if you want.

Do you have access to cadaver tissue? I believe the shortest way to recover the

amoeba is that described in Roger’s enclosed book. Pybus’ technique was simply

expedient because of his lack of facilities. If you and Neff can duplicate Roger’s

work, and also identify the amoeba, you will have

gone much, much further than constantly trying through knee effusions — which

you’ll see when you read the book may not be

very

concentrated with amoeba.

Cordially,

Perry A. Chapdelaine