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                    Bara Hal:,

30 Deoember 1945ti          

  I should be verg muoh obliged to you if yuu prould trsnsmlt
this p8titiCXl to the Third year Fzmlty,

   *It is requested that in Lieu of elective work in the first
qu&tier of the Third Year, beginning Piarch 1946, I; be permitted
to awept a fellofustip enabling me ts do rese~ch on the genetlas
and nutr%tion of bacteria (Escherlchia ualli) w%th Prof. E.L. 'Paa
at Tab UtiV8rSity, l&y applioathon for a fellowship with the
ChiLds Kemorial Fund Is under oonsfderation by the Board of
Panagsrs at the present time, The fellowship Is to extend antII

d'   the resumption of the Third Year work in Sept. 1946. QT. R+t3,
  leader, Asst. Bdreotor of the ChiLds Pund, is prepared to explain
  the status of this application,'
                        SIncerely youre, -

JU&UE Lederberg,