Sense of humour donation needed

Obviously the humour by-pass operation that Maurice Breen from Edinburgh must have had was a total success (MW August 17). (Maurice you surely can’t have been born that way. Can you?) I’m with Nock Coode from Thames Ditton (MW same issue). Iain Murray’s back page column is brilliant.

Chris Marshall

Publicity and promotions manager,

Royal Society of Chemistry

Cambridge