DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY SPENCER HALL MORGAN STATE COLLEGE BALTIMORE -12, MD. September 28, 1953 Dr. Joshua Lederberg, Department of Genetics, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Dear sir: Would you be so kind as to send me a culture of the following organisms. I am interested in try- ing some genetic studies, about which I shall write you: later, E, coli, strain K-12 E. coli, strain B fo E. coli, strain B/r Thanking you in advance, I am Yours truly, hake KE Werrreg Clarence L,&, Monroe Dept. of Biology, Morgan State College, Baltimore, 12 Md,