eeSh aa aHyhee Ayty act 407568 Tos Commanding Officer USN ROL From 4 Project Officer Project h.1 Subjects Biopsies of skin 1, Lecempanying specimens es of man skin. The skin nas been fine Ju bettered formal te and is now in 80% ethyl alechol,' In processing the tissues the slides should be run through iodine before staining. It is refretted that reagents were not available to make up Bouin's solution % would have been a better fixative for skin, : wei ne Xe ogel 9, &t asre ested that the tissuesbe processed odas quickly as possible and thatslides be forwarded to us, Br. Glarencehashiwuen of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, and to”Br. David Wood, We Ferthes’ bioreleeg Ty Om opinion as posaible&s guides to us for further biopeter, 4y "blew 3S” Specinenmmbers ll and h29 "gon tiGeAerteans and tb te 7 highty unlikely that theses are due to radiation,” The other lesions © , are dark macular and pignented that aredeveloping only in the ’ most heavilyexposed groupss Furtherdetailswillbe forwarded at gg later date, be Some of the lesions hat are developing are beginning to resemble the beta burns that eccurred in horses and cattle and 4t is possible that the report of Pearson will now be available Monge the Biv Biol and Wet cf ANG in onder Yo belp youtnyour study ofthe lesions, : | Se A great deal of xxqumgx speed 1s necessary in getting your ..- opinion singe biopsies are not highly sccoptable to the exposed individuals, : CLASSIFI UN ED FI RI VE S TU TA [S .. “S : ZU CCsacte ~ 7 REST COPY AVAILABLE é2 gn shl a e = M | he VE DATE / ERIVATI on RIZED OER | AUTHO ! : 001002 ee Ma ye 7 OP po.