DIVISION OF SCIENCE SERVICE BOTANY AND PLANT PATHOLOGY = Ne : 6 CANADA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Drawer 940, Fredericton, N. B., October 6, 1953. Dr. Joshua Lederberg, Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, College of Agriculture, Madison 6, Wisconsin, U. S. A. Dear Dr. Lederberg: This will acknowledge with thanks, recei;t of your parcel of September 26 enclosing certain mutants of Escherichia coli. © Please accept my thanks for this courtesy. Yours very truly, J. L. Howatt, J. L. H./MR Associate Plant Pathologist.