29 Forester Drive 
Princeton/ N.J. 08540 
15 December 1979 
Dr. Donald S. Fred rickson 
D i rector 
National Institutes of Health 
Bethesda/ Maryland 20205 
Dear Dr. Fred rickson: 
For public comment until 31 December 1979 on the Proposed 
Guidelines Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules (Federal Register 
dated 30 November 1979 -- and received 15 December 1979)/ may I 
direct your attention to the attached copy of a letter sent to 
you on 9 March 1979; conceivably/ this letter may have been lost 
in the mail and I would hope that this present one does not meet 
a similar fate. In any event/ I would appreciate notice of its 
present receipt. 
Let me reiterate my proposal to alter the Guidelines by 
adding as the penultimate sentence of lV-D-2-a the following: 
"Such nonaf f i 1 i ated members shall be appointed 
by the governing body of the community in 
which the institution is situated." 
Very truly yours/ 
David Lester 
DL: h 
Enc. 
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