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January 11, 1968

Dr. Joshua Lederberg

Professor of Genetics

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford Medical Center

Palo Alto, California 91:30)

Dear Dr. Lederberg:
Many thanks for your letter of January ), 1968.

I have not been aware that birds have shown any unique
response to ethanol ingestion and I will certainly look
into any material which has been obtained in this area.
For your information I am enclosing a review of some aspects
of behavioral pharmacology of alcohol prepared by my
colleague, Dr. Nancy K. Mello. This review contains some
material which is relevant to the development of an experimental
animal model of alcohol addiction. I am also enclosing some
reprints relating to development of addiction in laboratory
animals.

I greatly appreciate your thinking of us and I am
looking forward to seeing you at the next NIH Council meeting.

With best wishes for a Happy New Year.
Sincerely yours,
Jak H. Mendelson, M. D.,

Chief, National Center for Prevention
encl. and Control of Alcoholism, NIMH