The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research

333 Cedar Street - New Haven 11 - Connecticut

November 2, 1960

Dr. Joshua Lederberg

Department of Genetics

Stanford University Medical School
Palo Alto, California

Dear Doctor Lederberg:

Dr. L. S. Baron, Chief of the Department of
Bacterial Immunology at the Walter Reed Army Institute
of Research, has applied to the Jane Coffin Childs
Memorial Fund for a grant-in-aid in support of his
investigations on the genetics of sex and virulence in
Salmonella. He has given your name as reference.

Your opinion of Dr. Baron's qualifications
as a scientist and as a person would be of great
assistance to the Boards of the Fund in considering
his application.

With appreciation in advance for this
information, I am

Sincerely yours,

AL. haben

L, L. Waters, M.D.
Acting Director
Board of Scientific Advisers

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