30 SEPTEMBER 1960, Page 24

'ME DETECTION OF SECRET HOMICIDE'

S112,—I must apologise to Dr. Havard for a gross error in stating that he had suggested in his book The Detection of Secret Homicide that all deaths should be notified to the Coroner; what he wrote was 'all deaths coming within his jurisdiction,' which I took in its geographical rather than its juristic sense.

I do not think that I implied his advocacy of an autopsy alter every death; this was simply part of an argument ad absurdum illustrating the extremes to which one might go in pursuit of logical law.— Yours faithfully,

R. A. CLINE