THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND PuBLic HEALTH
616 NORTH WOLFE STREET
BALTIMORE—5,

MARYLAND

DEPARTMENT OF BACTERIOLOGY Januzry 19, 1950

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

Dear Dr. Lederberg:

if available, I would appreciate reprints of the following
papers:

Genetics, 322505-25, 19h7
YX Heredity, 2:145-98, 198
V7 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 35:178-v4, 1949
5, Biol. Chem., 165:381-82, 196
“tun he —
In your review in the Annual Review of Microbiology I hope it
is the printer on paze 18 who is responsible for the conversion of a

non-motile Bacillus mesentericus to a motile Baciilius anthracis and

not some unlucky bacteriolosist. For years we have taught that
typical anthrax is a non-motile organisn,.

Sincerely yours,

Co fame

Carl Lamanna, Ph. D,