March 23, 1950.

Dr. Raymond Latarjet,
Institut du Radium,
26 Rus d'Ula,

Paris, Va, France.

Dear Raymond:

I have just received a notice from the National Research Council
concerning the Symposium on Radiobiology to be held at Oberlin College
in June, and was plasedd tomnote your nam emong the participants.

Unfortunately, I have planned to eubark on an auto trip to California
{I will be at Berkeley during August! not long after the date of the
meeting, and cannot plan to attend without upsetting these plans. I
hope, however, that I can persuade you to visit this campus, so that
we can still take advantage of this opoortunity to meet. Lately, I have
been engaged in some work on irradiating haploid and diploid E. coll
which I should like to discuss with you in some detail, more than I
can hope to put in this letter.

Probably I can persuade this department to make a nominal contribu-
tion of $25 or so toward your additional transportation expenses, but
we are chronicaliy short of funds for such purposes, and I doubt that
wa can do better. I hope that this will not be a deterrent, and tnat,
if you have the time, you can plan to visit us here.

Sincerely,

Joshua Lederberg