UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION

September 19, 1958
DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS
DAVIS, CALIFORNIA

Dr. Joshua Lederterg
Department of Genetics
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

Dear Joshua:

We here have been following with great interest the news of the
Institute for Medical Genetics which you are planning at Stanford.
This interest is heightened by the fact that undergraduates on this
campus are heginning to see the value of a major in Genetics with
a view toward graduate work. Our department has decided that under
ordinary circumstances it would be better for our B.S. graduates to
do their graduate work at some other institution, and we would like
to be as well informed as possible on the opportunities offered
by other graduate institutions, particularly in California. Perhaps
this is too early to ask, but since we have freshmen and sophomore
students, we must look ahead. What we are most interested to know
at present therefore is whether your institution, being part of the
Medical School, will require a premedical training for all of its
students at the graduate level, or whether a major like the one
which we offer would enable a student to gain admission to it as
a candidate for the Ph.D. in Genetics. If the latter is true,

I should appreciate the privilege of sending to you sometime later
the course requirements which our students must fulfill, and asking
for suggestions of additional courses which you feel they should
have. Although the number of such students will vrobably always
be small, we would consider it such a privilege to send students

to you that we wish to find out as much as possible about the
requirements as soon as we can.

Yours very sincerely,

Lod jase

G. Ledyard Stebbins
Professor of Genetics

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