25 OCTOBER 1986, Page 28

Archaeopteryx

Sir: Rebuking you for publishing an article with 'so many errors' as mine on the Archaeopteryx ructions, Adrian Berry (4 October) claims that my principal mistake 'is to assume that a partly evolved organ, half a wing, could have offered an animal no advantage'.

As a science correspondent, Mr Berry's first duty should be to get his facts right. I have never, in the article or anywhere else, said or implied that I hold so daft an assumption.

Brian Inglis

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