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Dr. Paul Baumann ©
Department of Bacteriology
University of California, Davis
Davis, California 95616

Dear Dr. Baumann,
Thank you for your letter of October 7th and for the reprints,

Evidently, B. natriegens is not as remarkable as Eagon claimed,
Perhaps he had his incubator at 45° (or something).

Nevertheless, our little experience with halophilic isolates from
San Francisco Bay suggests that the Beneckfas may indeed have cultural
chagacteristics desirable for genetic studies. We would then be grateful
if you could send us perhaps a dozen diverse strains and whatever further
taxonomic information (or pointers to the literature) you have on them.

Has the group been looked at serologically ~ a la Kauffmann-White schema
for enterobacteriaceae?

Sincerely yours,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

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