/ l-d . NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA MARITIME REGIONAL LABORATORY HALIFAX, N.S. 11 April 1755. Dr Joshua Lederberg, Department of Senetics, ?niversity of ivisconsin, Nladison, i;iis. Dear Josh, It sives one a t reat feeling of comfort to receive a letter like yours of April and to feel that at least some of the Mighty are batting fok one. This, then, is the situation AS it stands at present. Officially my appointment ends in three weeks, but Dr Young has assured me that I can stag on for a few more months if need be.v In view of the fact that the Lalor Fellowship people have had such a third-rate group of anplicants this summer, they have awarded me a fellowship at Woods lIole, and we'll be going there for the summer. (Tentative dates: 1 June - 1 Sept.) Then we plan to go to l?ichi$an to give talks at the A.1.q.S. - there is to he a symposium on sex in algae, at w:hich I shall. endeavour not + uo repeat, mysel f too obviously. At one of ttlese plsceq, if not both, we look forward to a werm reunion with ynlr an<1 F:sther. ?rom then on the cry s%al ball becomes opalescent, but by no mean3 completely dark, and the followin loom as dim possibilities. Assist. Prof. under Jack Myers, Austin, Texas: Eo%ang . ? ? ? 91 Kelner, Brandeis, Qaitham, GPSS.: i!iolouTi. 3. ??? 1) : i u' Giff'ord Pirlchot, Dept. of Geology, Cclumbia University (where Ewing is setting un in marine microhiolog;r if funds become available). I! . 9 3 3 . a * at Coral Gables, TT. of Kiami, where tirey may be 5. gettin- fiends for more work with Red Tide. Pbycolo~ist, Sta7ione Zoolocicu, Naples. (Lo?tsno de Iu`apoli non si pub stare!) 6. h: 7. Tentative offers of support for a few months at Scripps Institution for Oceanography, La Jolla, and at the Bermuda Biolog;ical Station. My present post has been on a 12-month basis, and the salary has been $5000 p.a. ,.Joyce was a Guest research Worker (or at least a guest research worker), unpai.4, but with permission to use laboratory facilities. If ae Ioo?c upon ourselves as holders of two $2,500 post-doc%oral fellowships, we can't grumble. Ours has been a most profitahls stay in Canada from the research point of vie:v: we may not `1~1~78 promoted the frying of potato-chips, the storage of fish fillets, the smelting of iron or the pulp ard paper industries of the Karitimes, but we feel that, in our humble way, we have added motes to the sum total of useless bllt interestin,g information in the Pure Science category. (Yy colleagues, who work on the utilization of Irish moss, and on the projects mentioned above, have been more pliant in the matter of research, which is l"lhy the majority of them are remaining. But it gave us 8038 sardonic comfort to learn that at least one of them is leaving this autumn, for t,he same reasons as ours.) I don't know what .rumours have reached you: but, to put matters in perspective, T might 3~~7 that I can sympathize Yi +,h the position of the 1J.R.C. We have half a million unemployed in this little country o.f ours, and it soe71s only fair that the national finances should be ayplied chiefly to the promotion of indllstry. I had asked about theso thirqs before I left Yale, but at that time policy hadn't crystallized and Dr Yo'xq still thought we could concentrate on algal research. If I'd done a bit of shop-fronting - or if he had had the va{;uest inkling of what I'm working on and its possible, ultimate applications - the h'.R.:. might have been made to see things in a different light: but on my part I shollld have felt this a bit of dishonest bluff, and on his it might have antagonized his superiors. Rels not as young or as mobile as I am. You have now, in the military idiom, been put into the picture. The business of packing up hangs over our heads: what a business! I ho;)e all ,goes well with you and Esther. Joyce sends her best regards, and she, too, thanks you for thinking of us. Yollrs, lb Ralph t:. LerCn.