AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
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August 4, 1959

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
School of Medicine
Stanford University
Stanford, California

Dear Dr. Lederberg:

Nothing that Science has published in the last two years
has occasioned more favorable comment than the series of articles
in Current Problems in Research. In the words of one of our readers,
a distinguished professor of physics, the articles "which have been
following each other in a glorious procession, have given me the
greatest pleasure and I look forward to reading SCIENCE with much
anticipation".

I am writing both to thank you for your own contribution
to the "glorious procession" and to ask your cooperation in helping
us to select authors for future articles in the series. I scarcely
need to describe the qualities we want in authors: ability to write
for scientists in fields other than their own about problems and
how they are being attacked, mastery of the subject-matter field,
and so on.

I would appreciate it if you would suggest the names of .
possible authors and their subjects on the enclosed form, and return
it to me. In thinking of subjects I hope you will bear in mind that
the focus is on problems rather than on fields: earthquakes, not
geology; superconductivity, not solid state physics, and so on.

To turn to a different matter, you may be interested in
knowing that it is probable that the Princeton University Press will
publish the articles in book form within a year or so. Royalties,
if they accrue, will be divided among the authors.

Sincerely,

Ze YM

Graham DuShane
Editor

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