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From: Cotter, Rosalind

Sent: November 15, 2004 9:25 AM

To: Stephen McIntyre

Cc: Michael Mann

Subject: Nature ms 2004-01-14277: posting of refs' reports

Dear Dr McIntyre

Further to your message of 31 October, the three reviewers of your Brief Communication Arising exchange with Mann et al. have agreed to allow their reports to be posted on your website. Here are their permissions, as requested:

Reviewer #1 of 14277:

NA, this was the reply from the criticised Nature authors

Reviewer #1 of 14277A (revised ms)

I do not necessarily find it useful that (parts of) my and other referees' comments appeared on the web and were open for discussion. However, I also do not take this issue too seriously, and wouldn't mind if the review is shown again on McIntyre's website.

Reviewer #2

I have no objection to my anonymous comments appearing on a website, provided that *both* sets of authors are content with this.

Reviewer #3

Although I am not very happy that excerpts of the evaluation have appeared on the internet without previous warning, in this specific case I would grant the permission to post them, to contribute to a wider discussion on the topic of the climate of the last millennium.

Yours sincerely

Rosalind Cotter

Editor, Brief Communications