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STANFORD UNIVERSITY
MEDICAL CENTER
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA

DEPAR1 3icNT OF GENETICS
School of Medicine

February 16, 1952

MEMORANDUM
TO: Westex Committee
FROM: Joshua Lederberg

SUBJECT: Flash Schedule for the Meeting of the Exobiology Commitiee,
Space Science Board, Saturday, March 24, 1962.

| am noping to take advantage of the congression of a considerabic
fraction of the Committee members to have an informal meeting on Satur-
day, March 24. The meeting will be a rump session of a Pnage Conference
chat Guncner Stent is organizing to be held at the California Alumni
veenier near Lake Tahoe, California. The principle business of the meeting
would pe x review of life detection experiments on the Mariner B Mars
capsule (the multivator). This part of the session, probably from about
10:50 a.m. to 3 or 3:30 pem. wouid also invite the attendance of other
vecpers of the Phage Conference. There is no other urgent specific
~«>iness but we should perhaps nave a brief executive session after this
to consider whether there are any more general perspectives on the exo-
biology program most appropriate for our own consideration as a committee
of the National Academy of Sciences.

You will receive further notice of ine details of the meeting--
especially those of you who would not be involved in the preceding Phage
~onference. Gunther will be in closest touch with the local arrangements.
Tanoe has air service from Reno for any of you who may require such quick
access; we are looking into the possibility of local accommodations for
those of us who may have to Stay over Saturday night.

You will receive a more detailed agenda and prospectus of the
experiments to be reviewed.

| an: assuming that most of the Committee members who are also in
the Phage group will find it convenient to attend. | would appreciate
hearing from others who will not already have been making their arrange-
ments for accommodations with Gunther as to their intentions and require-
ments--please send copy to Gunther as well.

Joshua Lederberg

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