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Joshua Lederberg, Esa
Stanford University,
Santa Clara County;
West Califomia,
U.S.A.

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Telegrams: Mirror London EC]
Telex 21165 JUL 1:0 1962

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Telephone: Fleet Street 0246 Ext.

5th July, 1962

You may remember that we met at the COSPAR

meeting in Nice early in 1961.

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and a broth spiked with radioactive c<rbvon to i.ars in

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fra) talked about your project to develop a
robot - complete with a kind of stic's tongue - that
could be sent to the planets to investigate tne
possibility of life-forms there.

The robot, as I remember, vould stick out
its tongue, collect on it any spores that might be .
around, and subject them to a rough cremical analysis,
pefore telemetering the information beck to Barth.

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taken to Mars aboard a Mariner B spacecraft, must be

one developed by you.

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could let me have same details about it - how much it
weighs, how it will work, and so on, together with a

photograph, if available.

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