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372 or in confinement relying upon man himself.— (Alford, Aberdeen).

A Proposed Correction.—Ought we not all to verify our references? On page 303 the Editor observes that Bonvalot, in his work ('Across Thibet,' vol. ii. p. 64), narrates that Thibetan Horses "feed on raw flesh, as we have seen with our own eyes." There is no such statement in Bonvalot's work, 1889, vol. ii. p. 64. (The work is now before me.) He gives us some statements certainly that remind one of the stories of the famous Baron, as when he tells us, vol. ii. p. 73, "In places there were over six feet of snow, and nowhere have the horses less than up to their necks!"— (Rottingdean, Sussex).

[We print this note as it was sent for publication. We quite agree with the writer that we should all verify our references. Always thankful to be corrected, we again verified our quotation and reference which Mr. Ridsdale disputes, and, to our astonishment, found them perfectly correct. We followed a clue to our critic's communication as to the date of publication and quotation from "vol. ii. p. 73," and then discovered that Mr. Ridsdale had confounded two distinct books, and mixed up two different localities. He has disputed our reference to Bonvalot's 'Across Thibet,' published in 1891, by checking it with the same author's totally different work, 'Through the Heart of Asia,' published in 1889!—]