loeasr

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY
LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA

4 November 1957
Air Mail

Professor J. Laderberg
Genetics Department
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wis.

Dear Professor Laderberg:

The work in Marine Biology at Scripps Institution of
Oceanography is being favored by a one-million-dollar grant from
the Rockefeller Foundation. Among the items to be supported are
four professorships, which after eight years of such support will
be taken over by the University. One of the four positions will
be in the general area of Plant Physiology, possibly verging on
nutrition or even genetics. We particularly need strengthening
in the biochemical aspects of the subject. We would expect and hope
that the appointee would be interested in marine problems.

One of the candidates we have under consideration is
Dr. Ralph A. Lewin, who has given your name as reference. We would
be very happy indeed to have from you, at your early convenience,
a critical appraisal of this man. If you should happen to have
others in mind that you might think to be more suitable for such
@ position as I have briefly indicated, we would be very happy to
have some remarks on them, perhaps in comparison with Lewin.

Any remarks that you may give us will be greatly appreci-
ated, and will be held in confidence.

Very sincerely yours,

Cefl L. Hubbs
Professor of Biology

CLH sdk