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TANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
ebartment of Genetics
rofessor Joshua Lederberg

April 25, 1970

Dear Dr. Coan--

Thank you for your invitetion,wiich I am glad
to accept to the extent of being delighted to re-
ceive all possible information about 2PG ectivities.

chile I am pleased at your efforts to focus
public attention on some problems of vitak impor-
tance, I find that I differ sufficiently on some
details (or perhaps mainly empheses) that I ecennot
identify myself as an “endorser”. My public posi-
tion is sufficiently exposed that I have to attend
to such details in es way that may seem excessively
fussy to nayone who has not shared that experience.

However, since I often write on population ques-
tions in my newspeper column, I do dhink your ef-
forts at educating me may be well-spent, at least
to keep me from grievous error. If you want to
reprint feir quotations from my more relevent
ykease pieces, I would be pleased at the critical
feedback this might elicit.

Finally, two fevorsi.1) eny chance of the back
issues of the Z>3 Peporter for my own files; end
2) whet about a full set end subscription for the
reading room of our Humsn Biology program et Stan-~
ford (on which Paul Ehtlich is a co-director)?

By coincidence, I had just mailed off my May
2/3 sauxx column beforereceiving your material. My
reference to ZPG is therefore based on 2d-hand im-
pressions, and I am pleased to be on line to more

@irect and reliable information.
Sincerely peg

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