Baylor College of Medicine 
DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY • 713 790-4472 
Influenza Research Center * 713 790-4469 
Immunology Section • 713 790-3127 
September 22, 1978 
Dr. Donald S. Fredrickson 
Director, National Institutes of Health 
Bethesda, MD 20014 
Dear Dr. Frederickson: 
I would like to endorse the procedures reconmended for 
control of recombinant DNA and related research, as described 
in the Federal Register of July 28, 1978, beginning on page 
33069 and as outlined in Table III (two sections), page 33079 
and Table IV, page 33083. 
Sincerely yours. 
Robert B. Couch, M. D. 
Professor of Microbiology 
& Immunology and Medicine 
RBC: lfs 
[A-291] 
TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER • HOUSTON, TEXAS 77030 
