Comment on "Is the nonlinear Meissner effect unobservable?"
  In a recent Letter (Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, p.5640 (1998), cond-mat/9808249 v3), it was suggested that nonlocal effects may prevent observation of the nonlinear Meissner effect in YBCO. We argue that this claim is incorrect with regards to measurements of the nonlinear transverse magnetic moment, and that the most likely reason for a null result lies elsewhere. 
Anand Bhattacharya, Igor Zutic, Oriol T. Valls and A.M. Goldman