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