An opinion article overstated the air travel expenses of the principal of Glasgow University, Anton Muscatelli, as having been more than £100,000 last year. The correct figure was more than £31,000 in a single year during the period for which data was available, 2013-16 (“We’ve got enough fly boys without the SNP cosying up to the airports industry”, Comment, one edition last week, page 35).
In reporting the robust strength of the population of the purple emperor butterfly at Knepp Castle estate in West Sussex, we mistakenly pictured and referred in a caption to the lesser purple emperor butterfly – beautiful in its own way but thought not to inhabit the British Isles (“Nightingales and turtle doves flourish but why is ‘rewilding’ the British countryside so controversial?”, last week, page 29).
A reference in a leader article to the iambic system of the brain should have instead been to the limbic system. As the limbic system deals with basic emotion in the brain, the link that the writer’s mind made with poetry seems somehow right in its wrongness (“Britain’s mental health crisis: pills are not the only answer”, Comment, last week, page 32).
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