Mr. Grayson Kirk
President

Columbia University

New York, New York 10827

Dear President Kirk:

I am delighted and honored to have received your notification of the
Trustees' action in conferring an honorary doctorate on me on the
occasion of the Bicentennial of the College of Physicians and Surgeons
in Octoder. I hasten to accept, and to assure you that I will be in
attendance for the full period of the symposium and for the special
convocation.

As you would readily note from my academic record, I did achieve my
baccalaureate at Columbia College. I had also aspired to achieve the
doctorate of medicine. However, while I have been closely identified
with medical research and education, I have to account myself a drop-
out as far as the M.D. was concerned. It will certainly be a partial
consolation to have achieved at least one doctorate from my alma mater,
notwithstanding it has a somewhat different character than I could pos-

sibly have anticipated when I first enrolled in the college and later in

the medical school. a
With deep appreciation,

Yours sincerely,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

Maly