P. S. BARROWS
385 Bellaire Road

Del Mar, California 92014 Ory 8 1965

October 1h, 1265

Dr. Robert J. Glaser, Dean
stanford School of Medicine
Palo-Alto, California 9130;
¢

Dear Dr. Glaser:

Upon returning from a recent trip to Utah I was delighted to find your
reply of Sep. 23 among the aceumlated mail. Yesterday ir. Pratt's letter
of Oct. 12 arrived, mentioning his suggestion that Dr. lederberg corment
further. I'd hoped for that ever since reading of him in Lr. Rosenfeld's
recent Life summary.

The copy of Pharos is not yet assimilated, but a first reading claces it
far above the American Eugenics Society's Quarterly, whose June issue at-
tempts a somevhat similar symposium. Frankly, I'm impatient with their re-
dundant pedantry, almost as much as their reluctance to implement the tit-
ular "Eu", Pharos, on the other hand, communicates readily, even with a
layman like me, and its scope seems spacious.

I've along letter from Dr. Hermann Muller, too, in which he sharcs ny
feeling about the Society, to the point of shunning the word "eugenics".
Should "Planned Parenthood" and "Progeny Planning" progress into "Planned
Posterity"?

Under whatever name, wasn't the Life series a splendid advance? I note
even Business Week chiming in; though verbosely archaie Scientific Aneri-
can's September issue and October lead article speak as thouch nothing can
be done but praise the Lord and nass the plankton pic.

Even so, the Quantity asvect is ing taken over by so many remarkably
competsnt hands that it appears the frontier has moved on toward Cuality,
a much more nebulous area. By the time firs. Barrows and I no longer need
our estate, at least, the Explosion should be damped by either foresight ;
fission, or fusion.

Onc of these days we may get up that way and arrange to meet you, but
meanwhile my fondest hopes have been more than satisfied. .

Cy

Many thanks,

ec: Dr. Joshua Lederberg /
Me. Peter 3. Pratt