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DR. H. E DESCH writes to state that he wishes to make it clear that he does not endorse the conclusions and inferences to be drawn from Mr. E. J. H. Corner's letter on this subject which appeared in Nature of July 13. He is not prepared to enter into a lengthy correspondence, but directs attention to on e point of fact. The format of Symington's "Foresters' Manual of Dipterocarps"was in no way determined or influenced by the Japanese; it was already in page proof before the Malayan campaign, and half the page formes survived the effects of blast from demolitions adjacent to the Caxton Press works. Because of this fact, Mr. Lebroy of the Caxton Press reset the remainder of the work and printed the whole for a figure that the Japanese ultimately accepted. Re-setting was done from a galley proof handed to Dr. Desch by Mr. Symington's Malay assistant.
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Japanese Men of Science in Malaya during the War. Nature 158, 513 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158513a0
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