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[This comment on the Franks Report by Prof. R. E. Richards, Dr. Lee's professor of physical chemistry at Oxford, differs in part from that which appeared in Nature on May 14 (210, pp. 667–8), particularly on admissions policy and balance between humanists and scientists. Its publication here should not be taken to indicate anything but a belief that public discussion of the Franks Report is in the public interest—or at least in the interests of the University of Oxford]