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PaUL R. GRoss
PRESIDENT
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DIRECTOR

   

November 21, 1978 Woe

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Dr. Joshua Lederberg, President Sateen
The Rockefeller University

1230 York Avenue

New York, NY 10021

Dear Josh:

This will acknowledge receipt of your November 16th
letter, with its enclosures on the GND program, for which
many thanks.

I will wait to hear something from Ken Warren before
writing again, and at length, but this is to assure you
that there is much to write about, and to discuss. The
program makes sense, not only as a major enterprise of the
Foundation, but also as a proper investment for the intellec-
tual and educational resources built up in American biology
during the past three decades.

I think that the MBL can and ought to play a key role.
We can't and oughtn't to do tropical medicine, but what we
can do,- superbly, perhaps- is tie provide the focus of
teaching, of laboratory experience in the fundamental
zoology, and the opportunity for interaction with those at
the frontier of life science, that is the hallmark of the
MBL's historic role. It will take thought, hard work, and
a certain amount of politicking to bring it off by 1980,
but I think it can be done, and I should appreciate the
chance to try.

I'll be in touch when next I'm in New York with a few
free hours. Please think of doing the same when you come
to the Boston area.

cordi ily,

XC: Dr. Prosser Gifford