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> March 4, 1981

Dr. Joshua Lederberg, President
Rockefeller University
New York, NY 10021

Dear Dr. Lederberg:

| have just read the editorial in the March 2, 1981, issue of
CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING NEWS. This editorial, as you know, is a
verbatim quote of part of a talk that you gave earlier this year at
a briefing held at the World Environment Center. Is it possible to
obtain a complete version of your talk? The quote used by C&EN is
timely and | suspect there are many other good thoughts in the rest
of your talk.

We are in the planning stages of approaching the problem of
comparative toxicology. We have recently established a Marine Biomedical
Center here at the Duke University Marine Laboratory. This Environmental
Health Sciences-funded center is devoted to the use of marine organisms
as they can apply as models and model systems that can be related to
the health of our species and the health of our environment. Along with
this note, | have attached two of the most recent issues of an occasional
publication of our center. If you would like tosbe put on the mailing
list to receive future issues, please fill out one of the reply cards.

| look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,

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Joseph Bonaventura, Director
Marine Biomedical Center

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