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| December 22,1945
‘Dr. Me. Demerec

‘Department of Genetics

i Carnegie Institution of Washington

‘Cold Spring Harbor,L-I.

‘New York

‘Dear Dr. Demerec?

I sent you this morning by first class mail the manu-
'seript "Recent Advances in the Genetics of the Ciliated Proto-
'goa", Please drop me a card when you receive it for 1 am worried
| about .the possibliity of its getting lest in the Christmas rush.
i You will not be likely to guess the amount of labor I put
‘into that job. I have worked on it steadily since August,putting
everything else aside,sven to an unfortunate extent ,my research.
But it was a job that seemed to me well worth doing and I have

| profitted greatly by it myself,seeing more clearly the relation
lof my omm work to the rest of the work in the field.

|
| As you see,I have taken up your kind offer to let me have
| more than the original limit of 50 printed pages. At your fige
| ure of 500 words per page,the body of the paper will run about
| 60 pages,with extra for figures,tables,bibliography and table
'of contents. If the paper as it now stands 1s too long,the only
‘way I could cut it would be to eliminate the treatment of one

or more of the species. If that is done,it will of course mean
at least a complete rechecking of the bibiiography,pulling out
titles and renumbering all that remain,with corresponding cor-
rection of the numbered references throughout the text. I should
certainly not welcome that job,but I will of course do it if
‘you say so. I hope I have written the sort of thing you had

in mind for me to doe

And now I owe you &n apology for mot answering sooner your
Letter about the conference on mtations. But you can see from
this negligence the way I have consistently neglected everything
in order to got my manuscript to you as soon as possible. I have
' before me a stack of unanswered letters and other business that
has been accumulating for © month while I devoted myself on ths
average of 10 to 12 hours a day to the manuscript to the exclu-
ston of everything else. Your letter is the first I take up to

answere

I wanted to think it over to see 1f I might really have |
gomething to contribute before accepting. I am still a little
vague about the whole thing,as I never attended any of the
gene conferences to which yo refer,but nevertheless I do want
to attend and accent your kind invitation to act as chairman
of the section on "Extranuclear factors". I should greatly

_ appreciate 1t 4f you would inform me in more detail what I am
expected to do in the introductory statement and how I am to

eonduct the discussions. Also,what hour and date 1s set for
the first session,so I can arrange to be there on time. —