; | March 31, 1958
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Dear Melt

Thenk you for your thoughtful letter.

Of course we were dissppointed, but we hed always kept the pogaibility
in the beck of our minds, ao we vere net caught entirely off guard, I hove
the leeue oan be revived sexe time, and meanwhile we are not at atl badly
off 4n Mad!eon,

We 22d and do avprecdata how hard 4m Jenkine and ouy other friends in
California vorked on the arrangerents, snd are sorry that they were let cow
in thia fashion, I sepeoially Lape that there ware some personal, or rather
individwel, fostove dn thse adeinistretion!'s cacision, axl that it did not
speak Sor any lack of standing of the Department of Cexetics on the Berkeley
campus, It did scom as if there would be acne problenz ahead if Genetica
were, om the one hand, to remain ir Agriculture, while most of that
College was being shifted to Davis,

Don't cenfuse our disappointment with eny touth of renentvent: administrations
move in mysterious weyn their wonders to perform. There vere enough apecific
obstacles in connention with uy appointment that I don't think the result will
be any seriovs reflection on Berkeley of the kind you feared — at least no
more than seems to be inevitable with such en immense oreanizetion,

The bettors news dn the Jab here Sencernma the odd ovterte Kether ie pleking
up anong the Gel”. Most of then, ar you imov, fall nicely into the two cis«
trons, which rerrespond in turn to the tee ovgyres (i-trare and transferase) .
But there are alec some ofa birds, including two vhieh give resition 6 fect
in beth oistrena and which, according to Kalcker may have e quantitative
defect in beth onsymes, tut which behara sa ordinary raint -rrtarts in recon
bination and in reverse mutation, Their nogsition effant te therefore more
reninescent of Y~type p.o.. at least dnerespect te a diffuns e!?o0t down the
chremensne.

I truet we will sea you in Montreal, if not sooner,
With best rerarday

Youve Stogwaly,

J Agderberg
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