MAR 2 1 1963
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March 19, 1963

Dear Joshua:

Thanks for reading everything I sent you so
earefully. I am particularly grateful for your first
comment which I am going to try to work into something
else I am writing right now. I share your obvious am-
bivalence about statistical responsibility. My treat-
ment of it in the book of course was lifted just about
completely from Waddington. I can also plead, though
perhaps not very effectively, that a bit of overstress-
ing is justifiable on the grounds that the notion is so
unfamiliar to most people that it needs to be put in an
exaggerated light in order to be seen at all.

Yours sincerely,

Robert’S. Morison, M.D.
Director

Dr. Joshua Lederberg

Professor of Genetics

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford Medical Center

300 Pasteur Drive

Palo Alto, California

RSM:sts

Yo

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