was a prolific author of textbooks and a prominent teacher in management studies, the field in which the bogus quotation remains most pervasive. Nick points out that one of Megginson's former students recalled that ' I learned a lot of good things from Leon Megginson's classes. One of the most valuable things I heard him say went something like this: Charles Darwin didn't say that only the strong survive. What he said was that those who survive are the ones who most accurately perceive their environment and successfully adapt to it. ' Megginson had an interest in the theories of evolution through ' mutual aid ' advocated by the Russian zoologist Karl Kessler, and his statements about Darwin clearly reflect that. At some stage Megginson's paraphrase of Darwin, slightly recast, was turned into an actual quotation from Origin . That part of the story remains to be told, and we look forward to Nick finding out more. The contest remains open.  An earlier, closer match for the quotation beginning It is not the strongest of the species that survives will still be eligible for an award.