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Dear Lederberg, 16 May 1960

Thanks for your letter. As Burdette kept
nagging me I applied to the local American consul. Before
I could even apply for @ passport I had to state all
organizetions which I had joiried since my 16th birthday
(1908) With dates of joining and leaving them. As I cannot
remember 811 these organizations or dates and object to (a)
lying (>) putting myself in reach of U.S. criminal law by
making @ false statement, this keeps me out. I send you two
popularisations which may contain ideas novel to yOue
S.K.Roy has had terrific success with rice. Two varieties
planted in alternate rows gave 126% the mean yield per acre
of the two planted separately, and 119% that of the better
one. Dronamraju has either got a gene on the human Y or
something even queerer. He will, I hope go to Columbia
next year, looking for a Ph.D, He could give the lecture

you suggest. By 1962 he should have several papers published

Professor Joshua Lederberg, Yours sincerely,
Department of Genetics,
School of Medicine, IRS. Haldar

Stanford University,
Palo Alto, Califomia,
U.S.A.

. (J.B.S.Haldane)

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