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Department of Zoology

JORDAN HALL 224
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA 47401

August 23 1976 TEL. NO. 812-—337-7322
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Dr. Joshua Lederberg

Department of Genetics

Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California 94305

Dear Josh,

Thanks very much for the cordial confirmation of your invitation
to visit. February 18 is fine for me and I look forward eagerly to
being with you and my other Stanford friends. About the seminar, there
is this to be said: I expect, well before then, to get a paper on my
current work into PNAS. I know this doesn't mean it will be read, but
it does raise the question of whether it is fitting to give a seminar
that would be largely repetition of a published paper. I hope I shall
have by February more than will be in the PNAS paper; but one can't
count on what hasn't yet happened. It would be fine for me if I could
get at Stanford comments, criticisms and suggestions. The chance for that
is perhaps best after an oral presentation--even if it is largely a
rehash of a publication. But I leave the decision to you. I could of
course let you know a month in advance whether I have made substantial
progress beyond the published account.

In a short note yesterday from Norm Horowitz, he told me a bit about
his current involvement in Viking. What a privilege it will be to hear
yours first hand! The whole thing is just marvellous.

As ever,

Tac
T. M. fonneborn

TMS :nla