27 Way 1951

Dear Joshua,

Thanks to ‘the student response after you gave
your course in microbial genetics last year, the Dept. of
Bacteriology felt that the course should be repeated during
a school semester. Once the Dept. made up its collective
mind, I was apporached and asked whether I would undertake
the teaching of such a course. When I came to, I agreed.
The course is scheduled for the Spring Semester, 1952, and
will be a 2 credit course, lectures twice weekly, 1 hour per
lecture.

Fortunately, I got excellent notes from your
course and they will serve as the framework for my own ef-
forts. The changes will be essentially those of sequence,
emphasis, and integration. Frankly, I am a little over-
whelmed by the task of organizing the course. The Cold
Spring Harbor course this summer may help more than I could
anticipate at this time. I would appreciate learning if
the "Sources in Microbial Genetics" you mentioned as coming
out this Year is as yet available from Wisensin. Also, is
there any definite news of the rumored texts in microbial
genetics?

There are no indications where this course will
lead as far as I am concerned. Stanier and Douderoff are
enthusiastic about the need for a regular scheduled course
and I believe they would consider me the candidate if the
course were added to the Dept.'s curriculum. As things now
stand, I am still with the Navy and would be doing the course
as a basis for considering me as the next member of the staff
with my research sponsoroed by the Navy. The Navy realizing
the impossibility of fully discussing any phase of the work
now in progress has permitted an unclassified project on the
genetics of virulence. This project will get under way on
my return from Cold Spring Harbor.

Any suggestions you offer will be greatly ap-

preciated. I'd like to thank you for making our Dept. in
Cale more aware of microbial genetics than I ever could.

Seely,
zd

Fk

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