OFFICE OF THE HOMC SECRETARY
2101 CONSTITUTION AVENUE
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20418

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

May 1, 1984

Dr. Harold E. Varmus
Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of California, HSE 465
San Francisco, California 94143

Dear Dr. Varmus :

It gives me great pleasure to inform you that, at the Annual Meeting

of the National Academy of Sciences, your colleagues in the Academy
expressed their recognition of your significant contributions to science
by electing you to membership,
election and to join our fellowship.

I write to invite you to accept this

The only fixed obligation you incur in accepting our invitation is

   We hope however you will join fully in the work of the

to pay our modest annual dues of fifty dollars when the dues bills are
sent out.
Academy. This is not only to honor scientists of distinction, but to
address matters of importance in science itself, and also to assist the
nation in addressing problems where the insights of science are of
central significance.
worthwhile and rewarding.

I believe you will find the Academy activities

  After your acceptance of election an appropriate diploma, signed by
the Academy officers, will be prepared and sent to you.
know, in your letter of acceptance, the form in which you wish your name
to appear on that diploma.

Please let me

I congratulate you on your election and I welcome you to membership

in the Academy.

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Home Secretary

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