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January 16, 1947

Dr. M. Demerec

Department of Genetics

Carnegie Institution of Washington
Cold Spring Harbor

Long Island, New York

Dear Dr. Demerec:

I received the proof of both Liniegren's paper and my own and mve |
been working on these steadily in every available moment since they arrived,
After as a careful an examination of Lirdegren's paper as I could make in the
length of time available and after careful reflection upon it, it seems to ms
that the criticisms which I made orally at the Conference are still in the
main applicable. Believe me I have been particularly cautious in coming to
this conclusion because Spiegelman expressed to you and to me his Judgment
that Lirdegren's revisions; made my criticisms largely impplicable, I am at
a loss to unerstand how he could have made such a judgment,

I am sure you will recall that there was a very vigorous opposition
to Lindegren's views at the Conference and I am sure that there would still
be vigorous opposition to the paper as it now stands, It ssems to me, there=
fore, that we would be giving a false view of the reaction of the Conferences

by permitting Lindegren's paper to appear without some indication that there
was suth opposition,

i have, therefore, rewritten my criticisms, condensing them as much
as I thought could be done, and am enclosing them with the proof of my own
paper. I am counting on you to stick by the promise you gave me that I would
have the privilege of inserting my criticisms at this time if I still felt
they were needed, and I do emphatically feel they are needed,

In going over my own paper and the discussion of it I found to wy
amazement, that there had been inserted an additional paragraph in Altenburg's
discussion, a paragraph embodying ideas which he did not mention at Cold
Spring Harbor and which I did not know were to be printed in this volume, I,
therefore, feel that I must answer the point he has raised which seems to me
completely absurd. I am, therefore, sending you also my answer to that point
with an indication on the proof where this page should be inserted, T am sure
it mst have been an oversight somewhere along the line not to have sent me
this revised edition of Altenburg's criticism. It would sean to me, there=
fore, either that the paragraph in question should be deleted or that my
answer to it should be inserted, I should like to see it the latter way. I
do not know what is the proper thirg for me to do with the two naw materials
I am asking you to insert. It would seem to me only proper that Lindegren
and Altenburg should have the right to see these replies, but I do not want
to usurp your juigmnt in the matter and so I am depending upon you to sea
that they reach the people you think they should reach.
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Dro Demerec January 16, 1947

I hops that your plans for the Naturalist's Symposium will work out
to your satisfaction. If there is anything I can do to help you in making
your plans, you know I will be only too glad to do what I ean, I should, in
fact, like to know how your plans develop for it is quite probable that what
you do will, to a considerable extent, determina what I do the following
Years

a With very best personal regards,

Cordially yours

T. M. Sonmeborn

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