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A Schoolboy with a fascination for Poland and wildlife has uncovered several significant errors |
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in the latest,the 15th, edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. |
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Lucian George, 12, a pupil at Highgate Junior School in North London, 12 |
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was delving into the volumes on Poland and wildlife in Central Europe when he noted the mistakes. |
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The first was the assertion by the internationally acclaimed reference book that the small town of Chochim, |
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in which two battles were fought between the Poles and the Ottoman Empire, now lies in Moldova. |
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"Wrong," said Lucian, "Chochim is in Ukraine." “ |
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Carefully noting the page and column of each error, |
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the boy continued his investigations of the 32 volume tome like a diligent sub-editor. |
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In volume 25, page 934, column two, the encyclopaedia states that the European bison, |
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or wisent, may be found only in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland, which is also incorrect. |
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"The European bison also inhabit the southern mountains of Poland, Russia, Lithuania, |
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Belarus, Ukraine,eastern Slovakia and the Romanian Carpathians," Lucian said. |
