February 13, 1967

Dr. Rudolf F. Voliman

Head, Section on Obstetrics

Perinatal Research Branch

National Institute of Neurological
Diseases and Blindness

Bethesda, Maryland 20014

Dear Dr. Vollman:

I have been deeply distressed to learn of the difficulties in the collaborative
program with Syntex that have made it necessary to terminate that project. The
information you have so laboriously collected for many years is obviously of
very great research value, and certainly some means should be found to permit
your efforts to be brought to a creative conclusion. I don't know if there is
very much hope of overriding the problems that may have come up, but I wonder
if 1t would be possible for me to talk to you about this. I will be in Wash-
ington February 26 and March 1, and if you could save some time on the ist I
hope I might have a chance to see you. I will call you when I get into town

to see if this is possible.

Yours cordially,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics