| Description | Dale will recall their conversation from earlier in the year, about a proposal from archaeologists that an enquiry should be held on Dr. Leakey's statements about human remains in Kanem and Kanjera. Boswell was strongly opposed, since the scientific press was open to Dr. Leakey if he wished to reply to Boswell's letter in Nature. He thought the matter had been dropped, but has received a letter from Dr. Harrison at the Royal Anthropological Institute saying that a committee of enquiry was to be set up. Boswell had declined to serve on it. He does not agree with the method of procedure and the Institute could simply allow Leakey to state his case at a meeting. In a postscript, Harrison said that the matter was to be taken up at Council of the Royal Society and if that is so, he asks Dale to make his views known. |