• It was the Royal College of Physicians, not the British Medical Association, that called an extraordinary general meeting earlier this month to discuss the role of physician associates (Britain is great in a crisis, but useless in a slump. Just take a look at the NHS, 17 March, p49).
• The first name of Martin Pel, curator of a new exhibition about Biba at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London, was mistakenly rendered as “Martine” (How Biba lit up my teenage life, 17 March, p40).
• An article (UK redwood boom leaves California cousins in shade, 17 March, p11) said there were now about 500,000 redwood trees in the UK and 80,000 in their native California. It should have been clear that the California figure is for giant redwoods alone, while the UK estimate is for the giant and closely related coastal redwoods.
