DEPARTMENT OF 20 STANIFORD STREET DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02114 617-742-6384 July 30, 1979 Dr. Joshua Lederberg President Rockefeller University New York, N. Y. 10021 Dear Josh: Great to get your note and be caught up on your personal life, which looks very attractive! I enclose a photo about 3 years old, some 2 years after my second marriage to Dr. Ken Fremont-Smith (a physician; his dad was Frank of the Macy Foun- fat ion- ). He has 4 grown sons, I have 2 grown daughters and a son.. None at ome How to do particular research depends on available methods. All research depends on some kind of model and assumptions. ( I must have misunderstood your statement.). The problem at the level of complexity of development and aging is to get and integrate sufficient data for a dynamic. model which is so ) compl ex and realistic that it has predictive value. This is now possible. I do not know and could not decipher (!) the last name of Nancy M--- at Yale. JO Would you send her this other reprint? Thanks and best regards, Lu barn . Barbara E. Wright, Ph. D. J epee BEW/cme Encl.