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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 6, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 23.

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Punctuation.

In Answers to Correspondents last week we referred to a newspaper paragraph in which the invention of the comma in its present form was assigned to the year 1790, and attributed to Aldus Manutius. From evidence we have since looked up concerning the time when this writer flourished, we are satisfied that a typographical error was made in the paragraph referred to, and that the date should be 1490 instead of 1790.