80 years ago today - Apr 7, 1931

First Presidency instructs Apostle Joseph Fielding Smith and Seventy's president B. H. Roberts: "The subject of Pre-Adamites [is] not to be discussed in public by the brethren either for or against the theory, as the Church has not declared itself and its attitude on the question."

[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]