1 DECEMBER 1973, Page 4

Sir: There was so much pompous nonsense written by Dr

Wylie on vivisection (November 24) that it is not worth replying to it all. Let me simply destroy the myth he creates of the; dedicated and ill-used medical research worker. The majority of these people are in fact primarily doing a job that earns them a salary and pension, carrying out research, writing a few papers, doing a bit of empire building and going home to supper at 6 o'clock. If the rest of the rubbish had also been extracted from Dr Wylie's letter It would have turned out to be even shorter than this one!

S. M. MacDougall 2 Tayside, West Ferry, Dundee