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Departvent of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison 6, Wis.
July 26, 1951.

Dear Dr. Inoki:

Thank you for your interesting and informative letter of
July 18. I welcome your desire to work in this country, but
regret that we will not have the facilities at this institution,
at least for the coming year. In addition, I have come to the
conclusion that we should continue to concentrate on studies
in bacterial genetics, rather than branch out to other micro-
organisms. However, if you will not have made alternative arrange-
ments for the year 1952-1953, I will be pleased if you should
wish to reopen the question, although it is not possible at present
to make any commitments. I would imagine that Professor Sonneborn's
laboratory would have the most to interest you.

Outside this country, Professors A. Lwoff and 8. Ephrussi,
both in Paris, France, would certainly be moss interested in your
work. | .

I regret not having had an opportunity to make Dr. Hayaishi's
acquaintance while he was here, but I frequently heard Dr. Stanier
speak most eloquently of his good work.

I should point out, perhaps, that the Enzyme Institute at
this University, and the Microbi@logical Institute at Bethesda
are unusually well equipped and staffed laboratories, even im for
scientific work, so highly developed, in this country. I should
warn you that you are likelf to find my own laboratory, and perhaps
even that of Professor Sonneborn, relatively less impressive. On
the other aistzg hand, it may be suggested that new apparatus is
perhaps less important in the study of microbial genetie¢s than it
might be in biochemistry.

I shall look forward to seeing your interesting experiments
in print.

Yours sincerely,

Joshua Lederberg,
Associate Professor of Genetics