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Subject: Re: Errors in Powers' Biography
From: "Ballard, Terry Prof." <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:21:09 -0500
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Actually, typos have always been with us. Thanks to the magic of the
database JSTOR, which publishes complete runs of journals online, I
found and verified the existence of the term "Smithsonian Insitution" in
the April 1895 issue of The American Naturalist. I've made something of
a study of typos, since they occasionally end up in library online
catalogs - the ultimate disgrace.



Terry Ballard, Automation Librarian
Quinnipiac University
Hamden, CT

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