THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

Madison 6

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS July 23, 1947

Mr. Joshua Lederberg
Osbern Botanical Laboratory
Yale University

New Haven, Cennecticut

Dear Mr. Lederberg:

Thanks fer your letter of July 21. We shall leok forward te
your visit to Wisconsin on August 20, and I hope that it will be
possible for you to spend twe or three days here at that time. The
talk which we are suggesting that you give will probably be attended
by staff members frem this Department, Agricultural and Medical
Bacteriology, Biochemistry and Plant Patholegy. Graduate students
in these fields will be invited alse. It is our hope that even
though many peeple take their vacations in August, we will have a
fairly representative greup of interested people present. It would
be advantageous, I think, if this meeting were conducted with the

informality of a seminar. We shall leave it to you te choose the
tepic.

I am sorry on yeur account that we have not been able to pre-
ceed more expeditiously in considering candidates for our position,
and it is our hepe that pending your visit with us other possibili-
ties open to you may not be excluded. The very large post-war student
lead has led to a general situation in the University in which plans
for new work are sometimes crowded aside by the more immediate prob-
lems of eperation. There is considerable interest here in the new
appointment, and we are getting fine ceoperation from the Administra-

tion even though the matter may not seem to move along as rapidly as
we would like.

Sincerely yours,

RCo. Neck

R. A. Brink
Prefessor of Genetics

RAB/s