date: Tue Mar 23 17:19:26 1999 from: Keith Briffa subject: Holocene review to: hilary.birks@bot.uib.no Hilary I have and have read and carefully digested your speedy and thoughtful comments on the Rundgren and Beerling manuscript. It is clear that we can not rush to get this in the next issue. Thankyou for the trouble you have put into this. I have now been in contact with David and he has agreed to consider your comments and rework the manuscript . I am still of the opinion that this is an important piece of work and I would still be prepared to put it in a fast track at a later date provided that your comments are addressed. I am now waiting for the authors to get back to me and I suspect that you will wish to see the revised draft. I will be in contact again later. Again , thanks for your help with this. Keith