UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA

PHILADELPHIA 4

The College

 

ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY
38th St. and Woodland Ave. June 6, 1951

Dr, Joshua Lederberg

c/o Dr. M. Jemerec

Long Island Biological Laboratory
Vold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y.

Wear Ur. Lederberg:

I know that you have been very busy of late, and you may not
have received my letter of May 23. Ur. Raymond Taylor of the A.A.A.S.
office wrote that he tried to reach you by telephone last week but was
told that you had already left.

I very much hope that we may have an early acceptance of our
invitation to participate in the symposium on "Sex in Microorganisms" scheduled
for the meetings here next December. Someone has suggested that Dr. A. v2.
hershey 1s well qualified to present the evidence indicating sex in the viruses,
If you would like to share the field with someone else, I should be willing to
approacly Ur.. Hershey in regard to participation. Sharing the topic would also
invol vee "Ethe alloted to the topic. will you let me know as soon as possible
whether“er not you would prefer to have someone take over the virus part of the
Sug gested topic, namely, "Evidence for Sex in Bacteria and Viruses",

Very sincerely yours,

BAe dk
DH: RB D.™E. Wenrich