NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

THE AMSOC COMMITTEE—MOHOLE PROJECT
2101 CONSTITUTION AVENUE, WASHINGTON 25, D. C.

November 3, 1960

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
Stanford University
Medical Center

Palo Alto, California

Dear Josh:

Thanks very much for your nice letter of October 24
relative to microbiological work on the cores obtained by
our experimental drilling.

George Derbyshire called about the USSR reference
you suggested. It is A. Ye. Kriss "Microbiology", Library
of Congress catalog No. PP59-22321.

Duplicates of your letter (and of this one) have been
sent to Harry Ladd, Chairman of our technical Panel on
Scientific Measurements and William Riedel, chief shipboard
scientist for the experimental drilling.

In the meantime I believe you have talked to Riedel
and Volcani and discovered that they intend to work with
Emery and Ruttenberg of U.S.C. on these measurements. Fine.

Hello to Henry Kaplan if you see him.

Sincerely,

Willard Bascom
Director

WB: sw
cc: Riedel, Ladd