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Massachusetts Institute of Technology


                                           Boston  Nov. 1, 1906

Dear Dr. Blakeslee:-

     I am very much obliged to you for copies of your capital
papers on "Sex Reproduction in the Mucorineae", on "Differ-
entiations of Sex in Thallus Gametophyte and Sporophyte", and
the announcement of your botanical charts, all of which I am very 
glad to have.

     I really wish that we could afford the luxury of a man like
you and if we get a live president who puts us in better financial
condition, I shall try hard to have somebody.

     Meantime if  you are in the vicinity of Copley Square at any
time, drop in and see us; you will always be welcome.

                                           Sincerely yours,


                                           W. T. Sedgwick

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JL note 3/2/2000:  C E Rosenberg pointed me to this evidence of
the difficulty A Blakeslee had in locating a job to do fungal genetic
research.  That set the field back by perhaps 35 years.  I allude to
this  in P39.  It is also an interesting commentary on MIT!

Node: Sedgwick, William T. (1855-1921). In 1901 he was professor of
biology and public health at MIT.  He was notable, i.a., for
advocating chlorine for water disinfection.  (Cf. SAM-149).