Subj: Decision on 2003-05-04154
Date: 06/05/03 17:18:06 GMT Daylight Time
From: nature@nature.com
To: donaldelyven@aol.com
Sent from the Internet

May 6, 2003

Dear Mr Lyven

Thank you for offering us your manuscript entitled "House Sparrow Decline Explained", which I am afraid we must decline on editorial grounds.

It is Nature's policy to decline a substantial proportion of manuscripts without sending them to referees, so that they may be sent elsewhere without delay. Decisions of this kind are made by the editorial staff when it appears that papers are unlikely to succeed in the competition for limited space.

In this case, the discursive nature of your manuscript makes it unsuitable for publication as a primary research paper in Nature. Moreover, although your thoughts on the decline of house sparrows would no doubt interest many natural historians, we are not persuaded that the article will be of sufficiently immediate interest to our particular research-oriented audience to justify publication in any other section of the journal.

I am sorry that we cannot be more positive.
Yours sincerely

Dr Rory Howlett
Deputy Biological Sciences Editor, Nature.
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