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May | add one point In connection with the application. This has to do
with the responsibilities of the new Genetics Department, and the administra-
tive duties It may entédl.

First of all, It Is Intended to be a rather smal} group (like Medical
Genetics at Wisconsin) with possibly two staff members In addition to myself.
The principal orfentation of the department Is, of course, research and the
selection of staff will put much stress on the ability of each staff member
to understand the overal! research program and perhaps Indirectly contribute
in some measure to it. The teaching responsibilities will be quite limited:
we have In mind a not very Intehsive program for medical undergraduates which
will be Interdigitated with other aspects of the Basic Medical Sciences program.
The bulk of our teaching will be in research collaboration with graduate students;
to some extent, perhaps, medical students whose primary Interest Is research, and
of course with fellows. The responsibility for general genetics teaching remains
In the hands of the Blology Department (In which | should add J will hold a courtesy
appolntment.)

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In the circumstances, Including the effletent working plant, adequate
secretarial help (which | have not had unt!! recently) and so on, | am looking
forward to spending an even larger part of my time In the laboratory than has
been the case. (In fact If { had to say so, various meetings and confarences
and not least of all committee work like NIH, have been and are likely to be
more serfous distractions to my personal participation In research than the
ancillary duties of my university position.)

| should add finally, that apart from her own research program, Esther's
collaboration has been very helpful in maintaining the continutty of my research
over those Intervals when | have had to be away. { had a rather heavy backlog
of engagements that {| had postponed from my Australian trip last year, so this
spring was unusually bad for me.