Sir, - Are you not a little ungenerous and overly parochial in your report on the European Union Contest for Young Scientists in Porto, Portugal (Science Today, October 5th).
Raphael Hurley, in achieving third prize in this international competition, deserves our praise and congratulations for his mathematical analysis of Monopoly. But who got the first and second prizes and what were their entries? We now live in a bigger parish. - Yours, etc., Christopher Martin,
Howth Road, Dublin 3.