UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES 7

Department of Bacteriology

August 23, 1950

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

Dear Dr. Lederberg:

I enjoyed meeting you and your wife during your brief
stay in our department and am sorry I didn't get to have
lunch with you. However, I have since become indoctrinated
in bacterial genetics by Bernie Davis. I attended his course
at Cal Tech this summer and found it extremely interesting.
Bernie devised an excellent laboratory schedule which
acquainted us with the more important techniques in, and
contributions to bacterial zeneticse I became quite
interested in the subject and hope to do some work along
Bernie's line using vitamins. For this reason I would like
to build up a reprint collection in bacterial genetics and
wonder if you would be kind enough to send me any of your
reprints you might still have on the subjecte

If you see Dr. Crow would you give him my regards as a
former student of his at Dartmouth Collere.

Thanking you in advance for any reprints, I am

Robert P. Williams, PhD
Instructor
Department of Bacteriology

RPW/mar