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ever was taken of the correction offered, but 

 the writer applied with better success to the 

 editor of " that mighty pastoral," the Field, 

 who published these comments upon the 

 subject on September 6th following. 



" Sib, — If history is to be written from 

 newspapers, I presume that a mis-statement 

 should not be allowed to pass uncorrected. 

 I believed it to be the custom when an 

 error in fact had been made by a public 

 journal that a correction of it was accepted 

 and pubhshed, provided the name and 

 address of the person offering the correction 

 were given, and there was no reasonable 

 ground to doubt the accuracy of his know- 

 ledge. I represented to your contemporary, 

 the Pall Mall Gazette, that a mistake had 

 been made in that journal on the 7th of 

 August in a short paragraph on the recent 

 shipment of salmon ova to Otago, which 

 gave to one person the chief credit of im- 

 portant operations in fish culture. The 

 sentence ran thus : ' The experiments 

 which have hitherto been carried on under 

 the superintendence of Mr. Buckland and 



