THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN 12 Merch 4, 1948 DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY Dr. Joshua Lederberg Department of Genetics University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture Madison 6, Wisconsin Dear Dr. Lederberg: I am sorry the manuscript on catalase work has been delayed, but Wyss promises the final rechecks will be finished in a day or so and will get it off to you. We hope this has not inconven- fenced you. Haas ran a few checks of your coli cultures and they gave the prototrophs in their aporopriate combinations confirming your results. We have not done very much as we are learning the techniques to use in some tests. We will let you know how things BO. We would like very much your opinion on the validity of this work (good or bad) now that you have seen the additional data, Yours sincerely, Wilson S. Stone Professor of Zoology WSS/1k