BPISGO! taporatories inc

SYRACUSE 1,NEW YORK

August 20, 1957

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
c/o Prof. Rubbo - Bacteriology
Melbourne University
Melbourne, Australia

Dear Joshua:

Your trip sounds wonderful, It met really help
giving a somewhat different and broadened perspective to
things we take for granted,

We are very much interested in the soil samples on
the Islands and would be happy to pay up to one dollar per
sample plus mailing expenses. I am enclosing some labels
which should be attached to the packages and this will then
clear the Plant Quarantine Inspector, We have had samples
from foreign lands before and know this is the way they should
be shirnved,

I would prefer you handle the situation through your
contacts, We ordinarily get 10 to 25 goils from each area,
After the samples are mailed in if the responsible party will
inform me either directly or through you of the mailing charges,
we will send him a check covering this plus one dollar per
soil sample up to 25,

We will be very interested to hear more details of
your trip when you get back,

With best regards to you and Esther.

Sincerely,

Lein,
/oal Microbiological Research Dept.
encls.