SOCIETY OF AMERICAN BACTERIOLOGISTS

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

HARRY EAGLE
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
BETHESDA 14, MARYLAND

February 5, 1958

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Medical Genetics
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

Dear Josh:

I was very much interested in your memorandum on Cosmic Microbiology,
and share your concern over what may soon become a lost opportunity.
I will call Dean Cowie as you suggest, but I agree with you that the
best approach to this is by way of the National Academy of Sciences
or the NRC. I will, of course, be glad to do anything I can in this
connection; but at the moment I am not clear as to just how to apply
the weight of the SAB, for whatever that may be worth. Dean Cowie
is out of town, but I will, in the meantime, write a letter to

Dr. Bronk as president, endorsing your position, and senonding your
letter.

Sin¢erely yours,

Kagle, MeD.
HE: ac

ecs Dr. P. W. Wilson
Dr. Ee M. Foster