THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
49 WEST 49th STREET, NEW YORK 20

May 14, 1953

DIVISION OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURE CABLE ADDRESS:

WARREN WEAVER, DIRECTOR RockrounpD, Naw York
J. G. HARRAR, DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR AGRICULTURE

HARRY M, MILLER, JR., ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

GERARD R. POMERAT, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

JOHN J. MCKELVEY, JR., ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

KENNETH WERNIMONT, ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR FOR AGRICULTURE

Dear Professor Lederberg:

May I acknowledge your letter of May 1. Although
you will realize that we always have to make such remarks in
a cautious way, to avoid the very unpleasant dilemma of a
partial commitment which might not be fulfilled, I can say
that I think this Division of The Rockefeller Foundation would
be prepared to recommend to our Trustees a further grant for
you. I wuld suggest the possibility of a grant of $25,000,
available over four years, with the understanding that you
could use, in any one year, up to $7,500. This would give a
little flexibility in the use of the funds and would also
assure that if you did not call for quite so much money in
any one year it would not lapse but would be held available
for you to meet a possible larger requirement in a later year.

In order to present such a recommendation to our
Trustees at their meeting in June, it would be necessary for
us to have the formel request about ten days from now. This
request should be forwarded to us through the office of
President Fred together with a statement by him that he is in-
formed concerning the request, that he approves of it, and that
the University is prepared to accept and administer the grant

proposed.
Thonn be

Warren Weaver

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics
University of Wisconsin
Madison 6, Wisconsin

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