23 SEPTEMBER 1995, page 31

Please Note

Sir: Nigel Nicolson is very censorious about the display of antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum (Long life, 2 September). Had he read the numerous notices in the galleries and......

Those Were The Days

Sir: I suspect you published Ms Bose's provocative piece (`Enough guilt for every- one', 19 August) in order to attract some nice rotten eggs from your readers. To equate......

A Doctor Writes

Sir: I am a retired surgeon. John Studd's letter (26 August) reminds me of a dilem- ma that faces the operator occasionally, one with which your readers may not be familiar. You......

Burnside Broadside

Sir: The content and innuendo of Kevin Myers's article (What you see is what you get', 16 September) on the 'tribal' charac- teristics of a number of Ulster Unionists, including......

Eight-legged Egghead

Sir: 'Do octopuses have souls?' Simon Jenkins asked, while failing to spear his din- ner on the Mediterranean sea-bed (Centre point, 9 September). Hard to say, but what they do......

Inveterate Letter-writer

Sir: May I be allowed to reply to Michael Sissons' apoplectic attack upon myself and others (The wrongs of animal rights', 2 September)? If he believes that the current interest......