Proftwmor dohn I!. Edsali
Biologieel LeboremeB
EQlrvard vnlverafty
16 Dlrjbity Avenue
Cambridge 58, Hmxmhusetta

DeaxJohnt

     on x&y raturn tQ fasaderla I have been reeding the!
copies of 8CIEtES that hmm came to me, and have Just seen
your article on Qamrment and the 3'reed.o~ of Science.

     f ait3 witbg to exprtm3 any apgrecietion to you for
having published this mticle, which, I am su~'e, will be eig-
niflcsnt in the formulation of future plicy.

      I do -ot remer&er whether or not I told you about
my situation*  At the time, a year and a half ago, when the
Public Boalth Savlee grants that ogre in my IUUW tz&m ad-
denly cancelled, and the euggestion was made to rm by Dr. Al-
len that sepamte applic&tions be submitted, in the xmmes of
the individuals connected with phmm of the work, I decided
that fwouldqply i%lra small grant for support ofmywcxrk
on abnormal m&ec?ults ia relation to disease, The decision
we8 made before f rdklmd. th& the cancellation of the large
grent wes done for po~-itlcalrrtraoons, irmlviag2nepersonally,
ratherthanbecause ofa chmge lnpoliey abeut large and
slmll grants.  I post* ding the eppliecbtSon far scme
months (the other &gplications were made and acted on imedl-
etely), and when I bid apply, &out (L year ago, the Public
Health Bervlce petponti decision on my application. Dacislon
has been postponed from meting to meeting, every three months,
and nQw is scheduled for June.

With best relpuldsl, I atn

sincerely yours#

Linus Raullng : w