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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.
Fondation Reine Elisabeth (Institut de Recherches Medicales).
Professor P. Nolf and Dr, L. Dautrebande.
I have never been satisfied with the way Dautrebande criticized
the Nutrition Laboratory apparatus, as I felt that our correspondence
over it had left the matter in a weak stage and he had not made
honorable amends for the adverse criticisms. I had hoped to talk
the matter over with Nolf, for Dautrebande was an assistant of Nolf.
Although we had a most delightful social evening with Nolf I did not
feel justified in bringing in the discussion at that time, but I
had hoped Dautrebande would be at the dinner, when I could have had
a few moments with him. However, he was not there.
Apparently from recent letters from Nolf, he feels Dautrebande
"has not departed from the rules of courtesy which apply between
authors." I shall now drop the whole thing. I still feel that
Dautrebande is unjust but it is not worth the horse-power to keep
up the controversy. The fact is that the affair between Boulitte,
Dautrebande, and this Laboratory is one of the very rare instances,
in the whole of Europe, of misunderstandings that are not cleared up.