Field notes, v1409
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C. Koford 30 Journal 7 March 1962 Delhi, India taught at university in Bombay (specialty: systems), & is graduate of Columbia. The family has various other enterprises - roofing, composition building blocks, bricks. I depart to office on Allahabad road near center town, & not far from his home (where he gave me tea & introduced wife). He is member of Transportation of Live Animals Sectorial Committee, of Indian Standards Institute, his son M.S. being regular member. Son now on trip investigating venet procurement. Altogether, a much more educated people to deal with than at Patterson Co. To Malaya 8 March 1962. Take BOAC flight 716 for Kuala Lumpur; departed 3 hrs. late. Himalaya peaks visible in range to N. for about one hour of flight. Ground below had dry brown look, with various branches of meandering ranges and other rivers, with little visible cultivation or woodland from in 3500 ft. Passed over Calcutta. Saw mouths of Ganges; again very flat country, & not green but muddy. Landed at Bangkok, where some green, but rice paddies which surround city all brown & dry appearing. 95°F. hum! Then on across Bay & down W. coast of Malaya. In north, many step-sided islands off W. coast. Mainland hilly, with thick green forests. Landed at Juelar & went to Federal Hotel. 9 March 1962. Visited USAMRU (Army Med. Res. Unit), in buildings of IMR (Inst. for Med. Research) in K.L. Good but old buildings in well kept grounds. Here met Lt. Col. Balm, bacteriologist, in charge of US Army Med. Res. Unit (USAMRU). They had 3 Typhus in D'ing cage on roof, but no breeding success. I talked with Dr. Lin, 1800 Lit, who has kept Typhus and had