Comments, with reply, on `Electric field of a transmission line over a multilayered media´

The commenter points out that the general solution for the electric field of a current line source of alternating current over a stratified earth of any number of layers published in the above letter (see ibid., vol.75, no.1, p.170-171, 1987) was obtained by him in a paper that he published 24 years ago. The authors acknowledge Wait´s prior claim, observing that parallel research of this sort is too often encountered