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Department of Genetics

February 7, 1959

Dr. Bruno Rossi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Sclence
Cambridge 39, Massachusetts

Dear Dr. Rossi:

| am sure that Gold and Lurigwil!l have mentioned their
visits and hope their reports constitute a sufficient reply to
yours of the l2th. In any case | will be very pleased to try
to conduct a West Coast regional discussion and will keep you
closely informed. 1! have only just settled down here to the.
point where |! can catch up on my correspondence.

Stanier and | have discussed an early meeting and are
planning to hold one on February 20 or 2] per the attached
roster. Unfortunately, Urey cannot come and his collegue
Suess is out of the country. We have stressed @ compact
group that could conveniently get together on future occasions.

it is very gratifyingkto see that planetary blology may
now get the attention It deserves and | am especially delighted
in your own frterest.
| have not yet received the minutes of your: second
meeting and hope | might get enough coples of both the first
and second to distribute to the Western conference.
Yours sincerely,

Joshua Ledetberg
Professor of Genetics

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