Explant cultures of newborn hamster salivary-glands were infected with 4 oncogenic DNA viruses: polyoma virus, human adenovirus 12, simian virus 40 (SV40) and the LLE46 strain of adenovirus 7 (the adenovirus 7-SV40 "hybrid").Only SV40 and LLE46 infected tissues underwent "transformation." Subcutaneous injection of SV40 transformed cells into irradiated adult hamsters produced fibrosarcomas. Subcutaneous injection of LLE46 transformed cells, however, produced tumors which were bimorphic with 2 distinct histological elements, one composed of small hyperchromatic undifferentiated cells resembling a n adenovirus type tumor a n d the other resembling a n SV40-induced sarcoma. No evidence of salivary-gland function as indicated by amylase production could be demonstrated in the transformed cultures or i n the tumors which they produced. N 1959 DAWE AND L A W~ OBSERVED THAT NEW-I born mouse salivary-glands, infected with polyoma virus and grown as organ cultures in vitro, developed morphologic characteristics of neoplasia. Vogt and Dulbeccolfi reported transformation of cellular morphology and growth characteristics of monolayer cultures of mouse and hamster embryo cells exposed in vitro to polyoma virus. They also were able to induce progressively growing neoplasms in adult hamsters by subcutaneously transplanting the transformed hamster embryo cells.Subsequently simian virus 40 (SV40), anFrom the Surgery and Pathologic Anatomy Branches,