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February 17, 1944

Dr. G. WW. Beadle
stanford University
Stanford University, California

Dear Doctor Beadle:

I guess our letters crossed, Mine was not
sent by air mail, I had written you about Miss Fsther M,
Zirmer supporting her application for a fellowship if you
ciould have one available, If you should wish to consider
her and have a place open, I think you could do no better
than to get Independent judgement from Dr. Hollander and Dr,
Dernerec, She is a very brisht girl and I think would do
very well, I really do not know just how she panned out in
her work with Dr, Hollander, I think she wuld be all right.

I am trying to set soma heads or tails out
oF the vast accumulation of culture notes which cur two girls
eccumlated last year while we were working with hetsrocary=
otic vigor. I think it will be better to just report on that
phase of the work particularly concerned with the inheritance
of the push mechanics rather than try to explain genetically

Just what happens,

in reading a manuscript for the editor of
tne American Journal I suggested that the writers of the
manuscript read carefully the papers of Nansen and his ase
sociates and note his work in their next paper which will
soon be forthcoming. I think some of our sterility problems
may in fact be due to failure to produce receptive primorida,
Fowever, in Ascobolus magnificus neither race produces
primnorida when grown alons,but when grown together in culture
both ascogonia and antheridfa are produced, So it may be
with these sterile races of Neurospora, The only reason that
the receptive primorida are not produced in a mixed culture
may be that the miclei do not actually get together in the
mycelial cells,

 

Well, this is another story and I would not
for a minute take you awar from that fine work vou are doings,
with best wishes, I am,

“y sincerely
Yours cerely,

B. O. Dodse
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