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Pauli reports on his meeting with Delbrück. He discusses the empirical time scale of evolution and its agreement with theoretical prediction-following from "random mutations" and "selection". He talks about Delbrück's opinion as the most important unsolved problems in biology and the importance of the discovery of DNA.

About Harold Bohr's death and birth of Aage Bohr's child.

Pauli admits that his objections against Thomas' Theory of fine-structure are not valid, (i.e. that thte concept of spin has to be accepted).

About W. Pauli and his wife's stay in Sicily.

W. Pauli informs that he has reported in Hamburg (probably at Hamburg University). No mention of the subject.

Pauli says that Green will coming soon.

Pauli replies to Pais' letter about W-space. He talks about the connection of Pais' theory with those of Kaluza and Klein. He writes about the geometrization of meson-nucleon forces.

Pauli supports Pais' application to come to Princeton. He is favourably impressed by Pais' work.

Pauli writes about a paper by Villars and himself for the Einstein issue of the Rev. Mod. Phys. which will be sent off in a week. He asks if a certain result is already known. He writes about self-energy and "self-stress" of the electron. He also mentions Kramer's state of health.

Pauli writes about Kramer's death (24 Apr) and their friendship. He writes of his forthcoming visit to Copenhagen (meson conference).