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Symposium on 



BASIC 



RESEARCH 



Sponsored by 



THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, AND 



THE ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION, 



and presented at the Caspary Auditorium of the 



Rockefeller Institute, 



May 14-16, 1959, New York City 



DAEL WOLFLE, Editor 



MARINE 



BIOLOGICAL 



LABORATORY 



LIBRARY 



WOODS HGLE, HAS. 

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Publication No. 56 of the 

 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 1959 



