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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

SPACE SCIENCE BOARD

August 31, 1959

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California

Dear Dr, Lederberg:

Herewith in accordance with our conversation are travel expense
vouchers for participants in the forthcoming WESTEX meeting, The
Academy requires that these be submitted in duplicate; however, we
usually provide three copies of the form so that one may be retained
by the claimant, They may be submitted directly to me and I will see
that they are promptly processed for payment,

I have determined that your bill for expenses already incurred
in connection with WESTEX is being processed through the Academy's business
office, You should receive the check within the next few days,

We are all delighted that you think it will be possible to prepare
a somewhat expanded version of the biology section for "Science in Space",
using material developed by WESTEX, EASTEX, your ad hoc committee on
sterilization and the Bio-Astronautics Panel 2 report, As we discussed
briefly by telephone, areas which might be covered are: (1) biology in
general and perhaps a discussion of the experiments which might benefit
by being performed in space vehicles; (2) reasons for and methods of
prevention of contamination by extra-terrestrial exploration; and,
(3) the detection of extra-terrestrial life forms,

Please let us know if the secretariat can be of any assistance in
this matter,

Best regards,

Sincerely yours,

 

fG, A. Derbyshf#re
Space Sciente Board Secretariat

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