Letter from Thomas Gold to Mr Dennis Flanagan, Editor, Scientific American, 415 Madison Avenue, New York, New York Another note concerning the material Gold had sent him. States the general viewpoint is of course heretical, but from various directions a number of people had already argued parts of such a case. Professor Arthur Meyerhoff is very knowledgeable about all this. Also Gordon J F MacDonald is aware of much of this material, and Walter Munk has studied Gold's paper in some detail. Mixed or abiogenic origin of hydrocarbons has been argued by many distinguished people such as Sir Robert Robinson, Melvin Calvin, and several Soviet scientists, Gold is including a statement he prepared for interested reporters at the American Geophysical Union meeting where he will be discussing all this. 17 April 1978