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                The Rockefeller Foundation
        111 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. l0020


                                 Cable: ROCKFOUND, New York
                                 Telephone: COLUMBUS 5-8100


                                 January 29, 1969

Dear Mr. Lederberg:

          I have followed your column with interest, but
this letter is particularly prompted by your January 25th
report on genetic engineering.  Earlier this month, a
small gathering was assembled here to discuss broad crosses,
along the lines of the triticale development.  The enclosed
material gives a brief description of this meeting, and
might be of general interest to you.*
                                   [Is more detailed transcript
                                      available?]

          Also enclosed are two other recent releases: one
of them contains remarks by Dr. J. George Harrar, the Foundation
President, on the problem of world food sufficiency as measured
against the increasing population; the other reports on the
Foundation's move to support new approaches and scientific
research toward a new birth control method, particularly
in view of the need in developing nations, with a $2 million
grant to the University of North Carolina.

          Please get in touch with me if I can help you 
further.

                                     Sincerely,


                                     Marshall H. Peck, Jr.

February 14 1969

addressed to:			forwarded to:

Mr. Joshua Lederberg       Prof. Joshua Lederberg
Washington Post            Department of Genetics
1515 L Street, N.W.        School of Medicine
Washington, D.C. 20005     Stanford University
                           Stanford, California  94305

[ *  Yes. Thank you.  But I have to        Are you encouraging more
   classify this as an application       adventurous research -- see
   of antique science, which is not      what I mark on the attached.
   to demean its present importance.]

             Sincerely,

                                             Joshua Lederberg