Dr. Bnnk Blair Hatrson
!I?!w Roakofoller Fou.r&t%on
49 West Ggth %reat
Now Ycrk 23, Bnw York

Ibar Dr. hmsant

      I have rma~v%t2 notics of the action of the gxeoutive
%nnittee of The Rock%feller Foundtitlon in grorldlng eqqort
far the work in imwnaloq b&w carri& out under the dlreatian
of Profaa8or Sturtevant ad myiself fsr another +88;-.  I am glad
to exprssr to you nry thank% for your help b asking it parrslble
for us to early on triia work, whiti% is, I think, gQing along very
well.

     1 am very mmh encotmpsd `by th6 progreaa Which has been
made In recant year6 in tha study of protoine, a6 shown. for
ezampls, br ~6Urath'a rwlev article on d6naturation. Ths ~66 of
pant1tativs methoda Is providing: u6 with a bow of ralfablo
infar?nstion, Fknd, although pFOt6iIis are 80 EO@6X that w6 4EIn XkOt
hope that a final rend cmiplste solution of the problaB of theft
rrtnratura vilX 6~~x3 bet obtained, w. .mn. 1 think, look fnhrflrb to
getting, in &r lifstims, a rmeonablg &nod iaalght into the ganaml
~rlnoiplas of protein 0truata-Q.

     f have continued to think %3nut pour tentatlos plan
for a popt-war cong~~s on protalna,  Such .a oongrsos would be
Y~QJ valuab:! e indned, in more than one way.

Linus Pauling

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