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THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE

Madison 6

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS September 28, 1951

Naturel Sciences Division
Rockefeller Found«tion

49 West 49 Street

New York 20, New York

Gentlemen:

Following an informal discussion with Dr. Loomis of your Division,
earlier today, I should appreciate the opportunity of submitting for your
consideration this formal avplication for an Appropricetion Grant from the
Rockefeller Foundetion. Our program of resenrch in the field of Becteriel
Genetics was initiated with very substantial essistence from the Foundation
in the form of a grent-in-aid, which expired in April this yeer. I hed
planned to defer requests for further assistance until we had completed
some space reorganizetion here thet would heave expanded our laboratory
facilities. This will probably not be comleted, it now appears, for a
good many months, and we are undertakins e new line of work in becterial
immunogenetics. With Professor Irwin's cooperation, space needed to
initiate this prosram has been set aside.

The present request is for a grant for the term January 1, 1952 to
August 31, 1953, to the amount of $8000. This total will be allocated
among the following items;

Selary, Project Associate (Dr. P. David Skaar)
20 months, «t $300 per month.... $6000

Supplies, Expendable (glassw=re, reegents, r= bbits)
and student labor to clean glassware.... 1500

Other expenses incidental to the researci program,
includins durable items, reprints, and’
trevel directly pertinent to the progrem, 500
and supnlements, if needed, to the other
allocetionSescsee

Total $8000,

These funds will be used in support of the continued development of
our research in Bacterial Genetics, alone the lines summarized in the report
submitted at the termination of the 1948-51 szrant-in-aid. They will be per-
ticulerly applied to the investigation o° the entigenic differences among
crossable strains of bacteria (Escherichia coli) and the genetic besis of
these differences.

This project has been reviewed by avpropriete cdministrative officers of
this institution, and their erprovel and other comments are forwarded here=

with.
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CC: Dean Froker . Anebriaty Prafesaar of Genetiean