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South Africa, but from all over the world. Some were anonymous, not 



all amiable, but one is reproduced here : 



Professor J. L. B. Smith, December 30th ig52 



Grahamstown. 



Dear Dr. Smith, 



Thank you for one of the most moving broadcasts it has ever been 

 my privilege to hear, and for not pleading exhaustion as an excuse at 

 a time when you might well have done so. 



Thank you indeed for sharing with us, the listeners, your hour of 

 triumph. With you we were, each one of us for a few moments, hare- 

 brained scientists in quest of a dead fish; with you we wept on the 

 deck of a boat at the islands which we shall probably never see. 



Thank you, and God bless you. 



From one of the many. 



