AUG 14 1969
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
CHICAGO 37 + ILLINOIS

DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY

August 10, 1962

Dr. Joshua Lederberg

Department of Genetics

Stanford University Medical School
Stanford, California

Dear Josh:

the American Society of Cell Biology, which as you may know
seems to be flourishing in its second year with a membership
of about two thousand, is going through the throes of
deciding publication policy. I am, somewhat unfortunately,
chairman of a committee to decide whether we should complicate
the biological literature with yet another journal.

It is clearly time that some organizations do some hard thinking
on the matter of current dissemination of research findings

and add a little creativity to problems of integration of
scientific data. Most of our society council seems rather
conservative, and I am anxious to confront them with a few new
ideas that they can at least argue about. Heinz Herrmann
mentioned in a recent letter that you have definite ideas about
how to cope with the information explosion. _ If any of these
might be appropriate to share with our committee, I would -
appreciate hearing them.

I hope that the biological exploration of outer space is still
continuing. With kindest regards.

Coydially,

SY Y’—r

Hewson Swift

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