The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research

Board of Scientific Advisers Office of Director

S. BAYNE-JoNES, Director Yale University School of Medicine
RALPH G. MEADER, Assistant Director 333 Cedar Street

moras ARRESON New Haven 11, Connecticut
OHN J. MorTON

j Prion Rous December 5, 1945
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M. C. WINTERNITZ

Dr. Edward L. Tatum
Osborn Botanical Laboratory
Yale University

Dear Doctor Tatum:

Thank you for your letter of December 3 relating to our telephone
conversation of November 8 regarding the possibility of a means of enabling
a promising medical student at Columbia to work with you. I am glad to
learn more about Mr. Lederberg.

As I told you in our previous talk, this type of project for a
predoctoral student is outside of the general plan of our fellowship pro-
gram, but the request is one which I would like to present to our Board
of Scientific Advisers for an expression of opinion.

I enclose 3 copies of the application forms for our fellowships
of which Mr. Lederberg should fill out 2 for submission to us as soon as
possible, if he wishes to have consideration given to the matter on
December 16. Many of the items he will have to leave blank, I suppose.

To save time, he should ask the persons he gives as references to write
directly to me.

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Sincerely yours,

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R. G&/Meader

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