UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
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DEPARTME OF ZOOLOGY
LOS ANGELES 24, CALIFORNIA 9 December 1946C

Or. d. Lederberg

Department of Genetics

Stanford University bkedic:l Venter
Palo Alto, valifornia

Dear Dr, Lederberg:

It was gratifying to know that you would write a preface or introduction to
or. Yuller's selected writings. Naturally, this orefuces may be as broad as you
wish it to be in ev 1

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sluating Or. Puller's influence on the entire fisid of ganetics.
indeed, + kno. of no better snokesman to represent the rest of us 7?

tion of fuller's influence,

ror tunis evalua-

ndditionally those of us who are br. *uller's students have askec Dr. Fontecorvo
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to write 4 staterent discussigqg more snecifically the influence that Muller has hx
as 2 veucher in the develonment of cur resenren interests 15 well as our critiesL

Judements in genetics.

   

kay T allow you to exercise your own {ude on the Length of this vrefatory
statement since no snecial amount | of space has been sllotec Tor it. The date for
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submission is nebulous since the I.U. Yfound.tion has not vet decided whether this
should be printea or it the photo-offset process should be used. Or. Sonneborn
said it wouid be at Least a couple of months before the copy is ready for the
printers.

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Since the mocx-up presentation volume is voing to be presented to Ir, Tuller
av the dinner, it is unlikely that your prefice will arrive in time for inclusion.
Nevertheless he will be informed of your intentions to write an introduction and
I'm sure that he, as well as the rest of us, will be erateful for it.

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May I ask your nermission to have the rest o
attestors to your own signed intrecuction? I2 so
taitement and distributes it to them?

 

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