February 25, 1963

Dr. Robert S$. Morison
Rockefeller Foundation

lliw. 50th Street
New York 20, New York

Dear Bob:

| suspect that the thoughts put down In the enclosed preprints are not
unfamiliar to you.

What puzzles me as much as the technical problems themselves Is the con-

sideration of the appropriate mechanism for worrying about them. 1! rather
doubt that this can be government -- PSAC, for example, Is much too much

preoccupied with urgent short term and budgetary problems. The university’ ==
Is the obvious place for such thinking, but where do we find time for it —
between trying to teach and do experiments on the one hand, and ralse money _
and fill out forms for the NIH on the other?

| hope | can persuade you to try reading this In an appoopriate and serious AN
mood, especially as it took me some tima to reach that vantage point myself. ~
This Is the very point at Issue, but my proposition is that euphenics must _
be taken very seriously as a short term outlook. The Implications of the
consctentious regulation of human cerebral development for the social order

ere no more trivéal than are the world population explosion or the dissem=~

Ination of atomic energy.

The transplantation Issue Is coming to a head even faster than | had antici-
pated a few months ago, and may furnish a good test of how well we can learn
to cope with this kind of problem.

With best wishes,

As ever,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics