WASHINGTON        UNIVERSITY


                  SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
                 SAINT   LOUIS

DEPARTMENT OF MICROBlOL06Y

CUCLID AVENUE AND KIN6SH16HWAY

June 5, 1958.

Dr. Joshua Lederberg
Department of Medical Genetics
Genetics Building
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Madison 6, Wisconsin

Dear Joshua:

     I am very pleased that the space problem seems to have
been resolved and I hope that all the remaining arrangements will
be disposed of very soon.  I can understand the importance from
your side and if it would help to have me give Alway a nudge, let
me know.

     As we discussed on the phone, the arrangements for the
use of biochemistry facilities will have to be worked out as your
needs and ability to cope with them become clear to you.  My most
intense wish is to escape as much administrative responsibility
as possible.  I have confidence that you will be symphathetic to
this objective.  Our present shop arrangements are just adequate
for our needs, and if anything a little on the short side. Per-
haps, with your additional requirements, a solution would be to
provide an assistant for our shop man.  Similar ConsiderationSmay
apply to other general service areas.

   I have written Lyman Stowe%ur preferences for outfitting
room j-231 as a student-fellow lab.  Its location is relatively
disadvantageous for a staff lab insofar as it is at some distance
from cold and warm rooms and other general service areas; however,
it will still be acceptable to us to have it outfitted as a staff
lab like 3-551 and your suggestion for this switch with j-231 is
a very reasonable one.

     With regard to the optimal time for teaching medical
genetics , it may be difficult for us to decide at this distance;
it would seem to me that there is some advantage in having it
follow biochemistry in the,third quarter of the first year if this
can be arranged.  The syllabus you have outlined sounds awfully
good, and you can enroll me as your first student.

Sincerely,

AK/McK

Arthur Kornberg.