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Sumner Lectures, Cornell University, Ithaca. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Correspondence regarding the James B Sumner Lectures, delivered at Cornell University, 8, 10, 15 and 17 March, 1966, under the title "The Chemistry of Genetics." In addition, Crick gave a seminar with the title "The Present Status of the Wobble Hypothesis" on 11 March.
In addition to correspondence with Professor Robert W Holley about the Sumner Lectures (Holley appears to have initiated the invitation), the file also contains a subsequent letter from Holley to Crick (16 November, 1966) about the Gordon Research Conference for 1967. Crick's reply (30 November) indicates that he is unlikely to attend and closes with the news "that we now have excellent evidence from our rII genetic work that UGA is a nonsense triplet. (We can turn it into ochre - UAA - with hydroxylamine.) Strictly our evidence shows that it is 'unacceptable' but I have little doubt that [it] is nonsense, and not, for example, cysteine...."
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