Comments on "Some comments on Harmuth and his critics" by J.E. Gray and S.P. Bowen

J.E. Gray and S.P. Bowen (see ibid., vol.30, no.4, p.586-9, Nov. 1988) claim to have developed the formalism necessary to solve the propagation of pulses in a lossy medium for both the magnetic and electric fields using the Laplace transformation and generalized functions. They claim that Harmuth´s introduction of the magnetic current s, is neither necessary nor a sufficient reason to insure consistency and that their method permits calculating both the electric and magnetic fields uniquely for a wide variety of pulses. The commenter claims, however, that Gray and Bowen introduce covert assumptions that deny their claim.<>