January 18, 1958
Dear Jims

I hasten to reply to yours of the 13th, which I ws pl
giad te receive, I
had been gesting a bit diecouraged over not having heard from you, but I
should knew thet you would be the Mrst te keep me in touch with developme te
especially if there should be any significant snags,

This will net be much more than an acknowledgment: I have to think
about the implications of all thet wes in your letter. One point I am con-
fused about: Stage 1 was eatimated as costing $145,000, while Browne thought
thet ' a entisfactory leberatory' would be cansistent with the 100,000 now
available, Doas he mean that another block of space would be left unfinished
or that a lower grade of furnishing would be required. Does this $190,000 in»
clude the apparatus estimate? I rediise you would need more informetion
from me for a full anawer, out I would like to know the basis of your own

thinking ne far as it has gone.

Z will of course caoumt on a trip out if, or rather as aoon as, indicated.
One issue I will have to have your advice abeut is the etrength of the assurance
that the remaining funds will become available, If there were no other recourse,
I imagine we could start our operaffons in the space indicated as ‘first stage’,
though this will depend on the level of equipment, but it would be painful
to contemplate continuing anxieties and postponements en when the job would be
finished, I do net expect you to be able to answer a fuzzy queation like thas
by mail,

I imagine that you and the Department are much relieved by the outcome
of the diseussions with Zoology, which seemsto me entirely sound from both
your points of view, There is one sentence in Morgen Harrie’ letter of Dec, 26
that seems to me, however, to pinpoint the troubles, and I wonder that you
would want thet premise to go unchallenged, If that conception of the role
of the Genetics Department becomes fixed policy, you will be in for the same
trouble again and again, He wrote "The Department of Genetics as a unit in
Agriculture can hardly escape its primary responsibllities for arplied studies
in plakt and animal breeding. Under these circumstances it is unlikely that
genetics will be more successful than Zoology has been in presenting genetics
on a broad base..." Dean Constance's revly of the 27th alluded only to the
"peculiar position and role of the Department of Geneties", and it is not
certain to my mind that this ds a refutation of Harris’ implication. The
latter is certainly not my view of the primary mission of the Department;
it would be inconsistent with the magnanimous effort you are making to find
a place for me there, and I had the impression from you that the Department
had even less of 4 reaponsibility for applied breeding than does the Genetics
Department here} But as long as respensible people like Harris hold such views,
even if they are not shared by the Administration, you are bound to have
relapses,

The whole situation ia rather nerve-wracking, but it is good to see
that the end, or the path to the end, is in sight. You already know that
I have rather blithely (I hope net too casually)turned down or parried
several other very attractive offers on the basis that Serkeley was the
best of them, and I will be very mich relieved when it is certain that
this last was not too good te be true,

Are you running your cytogenetics series again? If so, would you want
my vielt to tie in with the course? -- which might excite leas premature
commotion,

One of the begdowns here has been the symposium—-program enclosed.
I was glad to note that UC will be represented by Stuart Lindsay, from
the medical school, as well as by Curt,

To raise an altogether different question, the University of Wisconsin
very bedly needs a new staff member equipped and interested to teach cyto-
genetics. If you have any suggestions, preferably for someone at the assia~
tant professorship stage, or can elicit any from Spencer or your other col-
leagues, I'd be much obliged to hear them,