CHEMICAL CORPS BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES
MEDICAL BACTERIOLOGY DIVISION

Comp Detrick, Frederick, Maryiond

26 October 1953

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Dept. of Genetics
University of yieconsin
Madison 6, Wisconsin

Dear Joshs

It was good to hear from you again and I want to take this rather
belated opportunity to congratulate you for receiving the Eli Lily award.
I was happy to learn that my suspicions in this respect last December were
correct and I hope that you thoroughly erjoyed revisiting the west coast.

I really ad a wonderful time in Europe, not too constructive from
@ie scientific point, but most interesting and enjoyable fwm all other
respects. I spent 3 weeks in Italy, a few days in England and Paris and
approximately a week in Germany including a four-day visit to Berlin. I
hope that I shall have an early opportunity to tell you more about this
trip but in the meantime I shall restrict myself to conveying the regards
of several Evropean colleagues, especially Cavalli and Monod (I forgot
who all the others were who wished to be remembered to you). yw Was partic-
ularly impressed with Cavalli. He seems to be quite a bright boy, far
younger than I had anticipated.

In regard to your request for references on acraflavine, I find that
my own file is very poor in this respect. Attached, I am sending you a
very small list of publications which in one way or another touch on this
particular problem, There just doesn't seem to he much in the literature
in regard to this problem, I certainly appreciate your interest in my
book and I am very glacG to have the correctiom& I would also appreciate
any suggestions you might have in regerd to changes in specific sections
because perhaps I shall have enough courage to consider another edition in
a few years from now.

It is quite possitle indeed that I shall have the opportunity to visit
Madison again during the first week of December. It would probably be on
the Ath and 5th of December and if my plans materialize I shall remember to
"just happen to have some slides along".

With best regards, I remain
Very sincerely yours,

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