ae , . _ Septeaber 22, 1950.

re ‘ Dr. T. C. Carter,

co Institute of Animal Genetics,
King's Buildings, ;

- Wast MainexRoad,

a Fainburgh 9, Scotland,

 

Dear Dr. Carter:

I am sorry not to have replied sooner to your letter of August 18,
but I have only just returned to the campus after a summer at another
university. ,

 

As you may already have gathered, my remarks were thoroughty garbled —
in the printing of the discussion. At the meeting of the Biometrics Soctety,
I did outline a notation which I hoped might be useful in the translation
© of Fisher's (or any one else'n) theory of recombination from the distribution
of game 4
' garry out any further analysis, although the notation was of some empirical
use in somes calculaticns. I am afraid that there is no prospect of ay con
tinuing very intensively with it, and I don't think that the notation iteelf
is rorth publishing,

In hopes you may be able to aake use of it, I am-enclosing « copy of a
brief summary of the notation as presented at the 1947 Blometrics Society
discussion. I shall be very pleased to hear if it is at all helpful.

ae : - | Yopre oincerely,

Joshua Lederberg,
Associate Professor of Genetics

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