STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
AT STONY BROOK

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY STONY BROCK, N.Y. 117390

November 11, 1968

Mr. Joshua Lederberg

c/o The Washington Post
1515 L Street, North West
Washington, D. C. 20005

Dear Mr. Lederberg,

I have just seen your column describing some of my research. I would
like to congratulate you on the accuracy of your description. It is all
too rare for non-professionals to be able to do this in as clear a fashion
as you have. (Do you have any scientific training? How was your attention
drawn to my research?)

I am enclosing two reprints of articles that might be of further
interest to you. Their relevance for the treatment of maladaptive behavior
should be obvious.

Sincerely yours,

CaP VC

Stuart Valins, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

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Enel. Dear Dr. Valins-- Our letters must have just crossed. Believe me,
your remarks are among the most commendatory, and appreciated, of those
I have received about my column. Since my professional field is

genetics (and you can took up the details in American Men of Science)
you might well be surprised at my dabbling in your own.

I first heard of your work from one of my colleagues here in
Psychiatry, probably Alberta Siegel. I ran into it again in sitting
on the National Advisory Mental Health Council when your NIMH grant
came up for renewal, and was impressed not only by its inherent in-

- terest but also by its methodological impliaations for many other lines
of work, I hope the handwritten questions on my note
were legible -- the one that concerned me most gmngexn was the extent
of actual entrainment of heart rate, a point you did raise yourself, brt
did not as far as I know directly answer.

Sincerely,

   

Prof. Joshua Lederberg
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