MEMORANDUM 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE 
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
TO 
FROM 
SUBJECT 
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 
: Director, NIH 0 . date: September 11, 1978 
Through: ES/NIH Ur*L- 
. Director 
Office of Recombinant DNA Activities, NIGMS 
: Appendix A of the Proposed Revised Guidelines 
At its August 2-3, 1978 meeting, the Recombinant DMA Advisory Committee 
unanimously recommended that in Appendix A of the Proposed Revised 
Guidelines, the citation " Agrobacterium tumefaciens " be changed to 
" Agrobacteriun species" as there are only a small number of species 
in the genus Agrobacterium , and the species are closely related. It 
is the intent of the RAC that this recommendation be formally communicated 
to you for consideration in your review of comments on the Proposed 
Revised Guidelines. 
LA 
William J. Garuland, Jr., Ph.D. 
[A-101] 
