Gnibersity of Toronts Je TORONTO 5, CANADA DEPARTMENT OF MOCMSRKEXt MicrobLology School of Hygiene May 10, 1960. Professor Joshua Lederberg; Departnent of Benetics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif, Dear Professor Lederberg: I would like to thank you very much for sending me a reprint of your paper on sib- selection of pre-adaptive mutants, from Genetics 19563 and also for the kind note enclosed therein, We have found this technique very helpful for isolaking a streptomycin-resistant variant of Vibrio comma. ot Corbwx0p I am about to branch further afield at the moment, both in lectures and labs, (particularly in lab.research, having just returned from a stiml- ating time with Dr. Robinow at Western), and am Yb wondering if you could let me have reprints of al relevant papers, namely: GAS <0 J. Bacteriology 71: 497 (1956); 75: 143 (protoplasts) & olarvey Lectures 53: 69 (1959), Again, very many thanks for your kindness, And apologies for my troubling you. Yours sincerely, wv 2 Judith Hoeniger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,