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Dear Joshua,

I am enclosing what seems to be t#é final draft of
the vaper for JGM. I have seen Bill Hayes at Pallanza in the last
days,and only yesterday have we had time enough to dg&scuss about
the new version of our JGMpeper. &Alkkaugk 1 had been rather cross
about the editorial comuents to this paper, but I hadseveral indepen
dent confirmations that the paper was badly written and incomprehen-—
sible, (sma a thing for which I obviously have to take all the blame)
and was quite grateful,in the end, to Hayes who did a good job of
it. He does not want to be thanked in the end,ané = shali have to
write to the editor in order that « word of thanks for his work be

-ificluded in the end . I assume you huve nothing against it.

The manuscript must be in the hands of ithe editor for
Sept. 17th. Any alterations snould be addressed ‘to Hayes before that
date,but it is unlikely that they would reach him in time. I have
not worried about tuis,since the alterations are exclusively formal,

«)no additions have been made ,and,what is more important of all,there

is ample freedom of correction in proofs. I have asked Hayes that

he gets three copies of the proofs and sends one to you ,one to me
and keeps the, last, foz,adding on it those corrections which may, be
found useful/8 Both oF gs As you know, dJG:l editors ask eae EBS ax

correction of proofs be made qidiHin GB.

The Pallanza meeting has been quite satisfactory,and,
since you may be interested to know what was said there,! sent under
separate cover a copy of the abstracts. It is confidentizl,in the
Same sense as WGB is. Barbara Wright shamuk asked me to send a copy t
some friends of her,like ‘Vatum,Van Neel etc but I have xkmm just one
or two left and perhaps the copy which | am sending to you might be
circulated after you have made use of it. The time just before and
during the symposium was a iittle hectic for me,who had to take care
of tne organ t Tig igentctl ys 1 had to deisy the correction of the
paper by ayes. 7a f penott annotations in the copy sent are the edi-

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tors' work,and the first #BEKX,wnicn is in my hands now , is almnost
covered with notes. Some of them miy be entirely correct,but other-
wise 1 think 1 would classify Wwervas a bit sticxy.

The attention at the symposium was certainly centered
on redmbination in Hl2. Hayes's paper did not contain anything new
to you or me,and where agee not been really valuab suggestions fro
the audience,which has “been impressed by the jwedemdiest imoortance of
the facts mentioned (as .ell as by the present messy situation).

I shall siart work again in the second half of septembe:
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The only addition that I have to say to what you know is that
the lysozyme effected decrease of F+ infectivity is due ,presumablyyp
to a microagglutination determined by lysozyme, aixeEhenamenan which
reduces the number of effective units. .

I shall be grateful if you will keep me informed of your future
results. Do youragsree to collaborate on microscopical observation of
Hfr matings? My own experience ,both the pastxam remote gmaxand the
more recent one,hes been consistently negative. But I have never
used the right conditions ,since 7 kept working on small layers of
agar where recombination does not seem to take place easily,and want
to turn to work on miecrodrops. How do you do it?

I hope your holidays have been satisfact ry. I have almost had
none sofar,and shall now be away for five or six days to the moun-
tains,

Yours

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