INSTITUTIONEN FOR
MEDICINSK CELLFORSKNING OCH GENETIK
MEDICINSKA NOBELINSTITUTET
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET
STOCKHOLM 60
Tel. 235480

Stockholm, June 20. 1968.

INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL CELL RESEARCH
AND GENETICS
MEDICAL NOBEL INSTITUTE
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET
STOCKHOLM 60, SWEDEN

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
Stanford University

School of Medicine

Palo Alto, California, USA

Dear Joshua:

Again my congratulations - I was sorry to miss the opportunity
to confer them in person during my very short stay in San Francisco
last. month with Glick on Histochemistry Congress matters. I had
planned to stay longer but a cold changed my travelling plans entirely.

At the same time you will get a letter from Laborator Johan
Lundin. He is a very fine and trustworthy person, head of a section
within the Swedish Research Institute for National Defence, occupied
with measures for the prevention of biological warfare, mainly de-
velopment of detection devices. As you might know, the Swedish par-
liament has started and is supporting a quite active International
Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Stimulation of development of such
devices is one point on their programme, with the philosophy that
if such ones were developed and spread, the interest in experimenting
with that type of warfare would diminish.

We, in my institute, are in contact, with both groups and we
have during the last years had a stimulating cooperation with Lundin
and his group, trying to see to which extent microspectrophotometric
and microfluorimetric procedures could be useful for such purposes.
He will be glad to tell you all about these efforts if you are in-
terested. We have reported them at a SIPRI meeting and got some
interesting discussions.

Obviously your and Dr. Levinthal”s work on the Multivator
and related fields would be of great interest to Dr. Lundin and thus
also to us. If you could find some way to let him get in touch with
that work I would be very grateful. I hesitate to write Dr. Levinthal
separately at this moment but, as time is short, I wonder - if you
find a contact with Dr. Levinthal of advantage - if you could be
kind enough to give my regards to him and pass on my high estima-
tion of Dr. Lundin.

With kind personal regards, I am,

i ely yours,
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