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CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON
DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS

COLD SPRING HARBOR, LONG ISLAND. N. Y¥.

August 5, 1944

Dear Tracy: .

Thank you for yourletter concerning
Bodenstein, to whom I have transmitted those
of your remarks that may interest yum him.

I am working on fairly interesting problems
here now, but it's getting awfully hot! and
I am taking more rest than before.

I' got a request to give an invitation

paper at the Cleveland meetidg of the Genetics
Soclety, but I wonder whether there should be

a meeting at all, and would like to know your
opinion. The ODT has requedted that the meetings
should'not be held, but Moulton, as a die-hard
Republican, insists in not cancelling and not
stressing the urgency of the OPT request,
probably hoping to gtir anti-Administration
feelings if the meetings is ordered cancelled.
That is what he did in 1942. The feeling

around_ here is for not going, and that is the
w&kiciak policy of the Carnegie Institution.
Demerec, Kaufmann, etc. are not going, and
many athers certainly feel the same way.

The Geographic Society has cancelled its meeting,
and I expect others are planning td do the game,
I think Fhe Genetic Society should do it, and
also the Botany ahd Zoology Society. I fo not
know if we from Bloomington should go, and

if you happen to see Cleland tell him what the
feeling around here is. I do not write him
because he is so busy.

I plan to be back around the lst, and start
working right away. Hope you are not yet melted.
Should we hope to see you around? Demerec is very
much pleagea@ at the idea of your coming.

Best regards,

plana