Erratum

In Eliot Marshall's article Academy rejects Huntington nomination" (News & Comment, 8 May, p. 661), the affiliation of Herbert Simon should have been given as Carnegie-Mellon University of Pittsburgh, not the University of Pittsburgh.     

Erratum

In the report "The color of the surface of Venus" by C. M. Pieters et al. (12 Dec., p. 1379), figure 2 on page 1382 was incorrectly printed upside down. The correct figure and caption appear below. Reference 11 in the caption is to A. S. Selivanov et al., Kosm. Issled. 21, 176 (1983) and A. S. Selivanov et al., ibid., p. 183. [SEE FIGURE 2 IN SOURCE PDF].     

Erratum

The opening sentence of Igor B. Dawid's review (6 Feb., p. 695) of Gene Activity in Early Development by Eric H. Davidson was incorrectly printed. The first paragraph of the review should have read as follows. "As in the two earlier editions of Davidson's standard work, much of this new book is devoted to discussion of quantitative work on RNA accumulation and distribution during development. Davidson also discusses in detail spatial regulation of gene expression in the embryo and its relationship to lineage determination, providing a strongly comparative point of view and generating broad and well-balanced interpretations of large bodies of connected facts. The result is an excellent book that represents the field from a personal yet broadly convincing vantage point."     

Erratum

In the Research News article by Gina Kolata "Maleness pinpointed on Y chromosome" (28 Nov., p. 1076), it is said that gametes always induce steroids. In fact, steroids can be produced without gametes. What is constant is that gametes can never be produced without steroids.     

Erratum

In the article "Space station price climbs higher" by Eliot Marshall (News & Comment, 17 July, p. 242), Herbert Friedman, a member of the National Research Council panel studying the space station, was incorrectly identified as a former presidential economic adviser. He is emeritus scientist, Naval Research Laboratory and Martin Marietta Fellow of the National Air and Space Museum.     

Erratum

In the report "Similarity of synthetic peptide from human tumor to parathyroid hormone in vivo and in vitro," by N. Horiuchi et al. (11 Dec., p. 1566), the caption for figure 1 was inadvertently omitted. The figure is reprinted below with the caption. [See Fig. 1. in Source PDF].     

Erratum

In the article "What makes nerves regenerate?" by Deborah M. Barnes (Research News, 29 Nov., p. 1024), Tin-Ho Chiu's name was misspelled. Chiu is with the Allied Corporation and developed the bioresorbable nerve guide tubes used by Richard L. Sidman's group at Harvard University.     

Erratum

In the article, "McLean-AMI agree on joint venture" (News & Comment, 21 Mar., p. 1363), the name of the new company formed was inaccurate. It is McLean Health Services, Inc.     

Erratum

In the Research News article "Why dynamiting vampire bats is wrong" by Roger Lewin (4 Apr., p. 24), Gordon Orians' name was spelled incorrectly.     

Erratum

In M. Mitchell Waldrop's briefing "Reagan names space commission" (News and Comment, 12 Apr., p. 160), Charles M. Herzfeld's name was spelled incorrectly.     

Erratum

In Constance Holden's briefing "Garrison compromise proposed" (News and Comment, 11 Jan., p. 152), the second sentence of the second paragraph should have read, "Total irrigated acreage, authorized at 250,000, would be reduced to 130,000, including 17,000 acres of Indian reservation to compensate for lands inundated by the Garrison Dam in 1953."     

Erratum

The article "Polish universities face crackdown" by Mark Crawford (News and Comment, 12 July, p. 146) did not properly identify an underground journal and two universities that have resisted the clampdown on academic freedoms. The journal is Tygodnik Mazowsze. The proper names of the universities are Jagiellonian University in Krakow and Wroclaw B. Beirut University in Wroclaw.     

Erratum

In the article "Hughes Institute poised for growth" by Barbara J. Culliton (News and Comment, 7 June, p. 1178), Raymond Gesteland's name was spelled incorrectly.     

Erratum

In the report "Taste flashes: Reaction times, intensity, and quality" by S. T. Kelling and B. P. Halpern (28 Jan., p. 412), an error appeared in Table 2 on page 413. The magnitude estimate for the 1000-millisecond sodium saccharin pulse obtained during the last 100 milliseconds of the pulse duration was 16 +/- 1.4, not 1.6 +/- 1.4.     

Erratum

In table 1 of the report by M. Essex et al., "Antibodies to cell membrane antigens associated with human T-cell leukemia virus in patients with AIDS" (20 May, p. 859), the heading for columns 4 and 5 should have read "Cells positive (> 40 percent)"     

Erratum

In the announcement of the Gordon Research Conferences by A. M. Cruickshank (4 Mar., p. 1095), under the heading "Fertilization and the Activation of Development" (p. 1108), four listings under the topic "Gamete recognition and binding II" on 2 August were incorrectly printed. They should have read, "Michael G. O'Rand, (subject to be announced); Bayard Storey, ;Reactions between sperm and zona pallucida leading to fertilization in the mouse'; Bonnie S. Dunbar, (subject to be announced); Paul Wasserman, ;Egg surface glycoproteins that regulate mammalian fertilization.' " Under the heading "Hormone Action" (p. 1112), two listings under the topic "Prolactin" on 9 August were incorrectly printed, and one was omitted. They should have read, "Henry Friesen, ;Prolactin receptors'; Paul Kelly, ;Second messenger for prolactin'; Jeffrey Rosen, ;Prolactin regulation of casein genes.' "     

Erratum

The photograph accompanying the News & Comment article "Jet Propulsion Lab looks to life after Voyager" by M. Mitchell Waldrop (8 Sept., p. 1037) was generated on a VAX with a photoclinometry program developed by Randy Kirk of the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's hypercube computer was not used to generate the panorama shown, as stated in the caption.     

Erratum

In the News & Comment article by Marjorie Sun "Investors' yen for U.S. technology" (8 Dec., p. 1238), the name of the computer company Poqet Computer Corporation was misspelled.     

Erratum

Because of a transmission error, the West German government's position on Europe's genome program was incorrectly stated in David Dickson's News & Comment article "Genome project gets rough ride in Europe" (3 Feb., p. 599). The Bundestag has given its qualified approval to the program. It has not endorsed the views of a parliamentary committee that opposes the effort, as the article stated.     

Erratum

In Joseph Palca's News & Comment article "New round in Dingell v. NIH" (28 July, p. 349), the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, was incorrectly referred to as "Baylor University." Baylor University is in Waco, Texas.