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June 17 i960 Dr. Glair G. Patterson Geological Sciences California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California 91109 Dear Doctor Patterson* Please accept my thanks for your succinct exposition of the editorial and professional conventions, with respect to the critique of a scientific publication. It would be inappropriate, of course, for me to comment on certain of your ideas and conclusions (which have been publicized fairly extensively) until I have seen the present manuscript in print. I imagine ay comments can wait. Perhaps I am unduly impressed by the lack of a previous oppor tunity for either formal or informal discussion of certain copceptsy that would seem to warrant some reexamination. Very truly yours. RAK:..ieh ;c: Dr. Katharine R.. Boueot Hubert A.-Kehoe, 1-i.D. 0 'iI Un i i