April 23, 1953

- Dear Bd:

< an forwadding our AAAS as, with Wenrich's covering letter. I have
aot gone over Lt for minor ohanges of wording, of which some few aay be
desirable, but have corrected the Incomplete references in the bibllography.
I wculd bs strongly opposed tc any serlous revisions, eitaer to bring the
ne. Upetowdate, op even for a "judicious expansion". We have not yet
completed our current studies, wiich help better to define the functioning
of F in segregation, (und to rule out any more extrame non~sexunl interprete-
tdona), so would not undertake to write guoh a general paper us of the
presant data. There lg nothing in the as. that is exceptionable: 4f anything,
wa aay have leaned over bacloards to accomudube Mayas! point of view,

fhe minor changes in wording that I hive, made are tagigned 1) to awold
"traheduetion® for the F+ conditioning, which I now feel would be a alstaken
usage, sad 2} to avold an unjustified insistence that Pe is a virus. It fe
hard to avoid speaking of F+ as an infective agent, in view of the contagious
transfer of the F+ state, but wo do not, in fact, have the P+ agant in hand,
separate fron the sells.

fnleas you have some serious revision to discuss, why aot return the
aa, directly to fenvioh. Thile the reviewer haa a point, I think our usage
of "haplobiontic" and "comatibility" is entiraly tenable,
fully

Are we going to see you in Madison aay ties this year? I had baht hoped
you might attend the Chicago maetings, and visit us on route. (tnd half expected)

Sincerely,

nein eee

Joshua wederberg