Istgenetica - Pavia

Tel. 23.029 ; 29.038 — Indirizzo telegrafico :

lara

13th slay 1960

Prof. J. Lederberg,
Department of Genetics,

 

ISTITUTO DI GENETICA Stanford University,
UNIVERSITA DI PAVIA Stanford, California,
VIA SANT’ EPIFANIO, 14 U.S.A.
PAVIA

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Thank you for your letter.” We shall enter via
New York and note what you have said about housing and
cars. The lack of interest on the part of our children
for America is, I think, only a consequence of the fact
that they are used to consider the summer by the seaside
as the best part of the year and they don't like to
leave the certain for the uncertain. I agree it may
be a consequence of the conservative education they

get in Europe.

ke. opportunity such as the one suggested in the
paper ott. bent by Esther seems interesting. I do not mind
spending up to 250 dollars for lodgings, especially if it
means something really attractive, perhaps nearer to the
lab and with an extra room that can be used as a study and
left in complete disorder without hurting Alba's feelings
too much,

I am getting worried about the impossibility
of smokin in your department. Is there any place in
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I am enclosing a list of books and journals.
useful for the course which I assume you have; if not
I think it worthwhile for your lab to get them. If you
do not get them let me know.

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Alba asks me to tell Esther that espadrilles
will be on the market only at the end of iiay. What
is available now is unsatisfactory. Shall we airmail
them or take them with us? ob
I am committed here at present in several
ways and I will not plan anything on Syntex or Holden-

Day. Thanks for the tip anyhow,

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Re. Interist, Giovanni thinks that it may be better
from a bureaurocratic point of view to include
reimbursement of your expenses in the general grant
rather than the travel grant. Therefore subnit
your annual amount directly to us and we will deal
with it.

Zeler, D.D.T. Resistance. We have now discussed
with bedte and Scossiroli and there should be no major
problems for including a programme of the kind. We
don't have D.D.T. resistant Drosophila but it is
easy to get them and we can also get locally D.D.T.
resistant strains of house flies. We may perhaps
discuss in more detail the programme in the summer.
The programe, will, however, suffer from the block
which presently hinders all fluorination activities,
namely the fact that we haven't yet been able to get a
copy of the Handbook of Fluorination.

We are looking forward to visiting Stanford
and we ask for some tips on the expected temperature
and weather. Bree nF ON

All the best,

Yours,

hu Cw

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