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• In the article on the plan to elevate Venice (24 July, p 36) we refer to team leader Giuseppe Gambolati as an applied mathematician. He is in fact a geomechanical engineer.

• Marion Hoar of Haydensville, Massachusetts, US, points out that if Napoleon was given 600 milligrams of mercuric chloride, he certainly was murdered (24 July, p 16). Mercuric chloride is an abandoned, very toxic disinfectant. Mercurous chloride, or calomel, is an abandoned but much less toxic laxative and purgative.

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