Volume 11, Number 6
Aug 1987

Editor's Page

Corrections

• Somewhere in the April issue I said that newsprint was 45% lignin, which can't be true, since wood itself is only about 23% lignin, and the groundwood pulp made from the wood constitutes only about 75% of the newsprint sheet. The other 25% or so is lightly refined chemical pulp, added to impart strength, according to the Handbook for Pulp & Paper Technologists by G. A. Smook (TAPPI, 1982).
• Although the last issue of this newsletter carried the old address on the front page, and although envelopes used for mailing out this and other issues may carry it too, the Newsletter office has not been moved back to Brigham Young University. The front-page address was a mistake, and the envelopes are being used up as an economy measure. The proper address is 320 E. Center, Provo, UT 84601.
• The Coptic binding in Fig. 1 of William Bull's article in the April issue was upside down. The big margin belongs at the bottom, just as in European bindings.

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