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or in confinement relying upon man himself. — Wm. Wilson (Alford, 

 Aberdeen). 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



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 Bon- 

 valot'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! " — E. L. 

 J. Ridsdale (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 !— Ed.] 



