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DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS

January 3, 1947.

Dr, T. M. Sonneborn,
Dept. Zoology,
Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana.

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Dear Dr. Sonneborn,
I am enclosing a copy of a letter sent to Preer,,in hopes that

you might have some comment. Admittedly even the kinetic data asked

Sonneborn mss.
Manuscripts Department, Lilly Library

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

for might still be indecisive, but if the multiplication of kappa
were hot certainly first order autocatalytic, espeelally at low kappa

concentrations, the autonomy pf the plasmagene might be hard to main~

 

tain (in our minds). Since I have not notiged any place where this

  

assumption was examined closely in derivadg the enumeration formilae,
I simply wondered whether the question were still opsa.
“hanks again for a remarkable "show" at Chicago.

we Fncenenys
Joshua Lederberg

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