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ROCKEFELLER ARCHIVE CENTER

Hillcrest, Pocantico Hills EB =
North Tarrytown, New York 10591

nw THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION ARCHIVES
February 17, 7941.

Interviews:
Visit at Ctunford University, Paulo Alto, Californie.

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Wi aukes short calls on vhitaker, Twitty, Beadle, and Tatum.
Giese and Blinks hove clasces. Blinks declined the Tashington Univursity
offer entirely as his own decision, with no promises or urging fren
Stanford, us did Beadle the CIT offer. Tatun is to bs mage an Instructor
or Assistant Professor next fall. Taylor reels that Ciese profited very
greatly by his fellowship. Beadle und Tautem are slowly maxing progress
in the very difficult problem of analyzing the detailed mechanisnus whereby
individual genes control enzymes wuich in turn control ths steps in the
com: licated formation of the pigments which give the various eye colors

to Drosophila, Apparently the single genes have the sane order of
specificity as the single enzymes. mW gets « churacteristically fine
impression of the group.