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JOSHUA LEDERBERG
PRESIDENT November 30, 1979

Governor Russell W. Peterson
President

National Audubon Society

950 Third Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Dear Governor Peterson:

Both Howard Phipps of the New York Zoological Society and
William Reilly of the Conservation Foundation join me in ex-
pressing our thanks and appreciation for your presentation at
the 1979 Fairfield Osborn Memorial Lecture. You obviously
stirred our audience very deeply with the challenges you pre-
sented in selecting "life-supporting" options for the future.

I hope that the Osborn Lecture will continue to play a
useful role in broadening public awareness of the dilemmas of
resource issues. The three sponsoring organizations are com-
mitted to promoting the Lecture's impact as an important forum
on environmental affairs, and we are in the process of con-
sidering some related activities which will reexamine the
perspectives, trends and questions which Dr. Osborn himself
pursued in his work and writings.

As you know, we are working with your staff on the pos-
sibility of reprinting your remarks in an established, national
publication. I hope such wide distribution and readership will
be possible.

Once again, our thanks for your forceful and effective
presentation. It was a great pleasure for us at The Rockefeller

to be the host for this year's program with you as the featured
speaker.

Sincerely,

Joshua Lederberg

cc: Mr. Howard Phipps
Mr. William Reilly