We regret that, in A. R. Buchan's recent article on SS Windward (Polar Record 24 (150): 213–22), Fig. 6 was wrongly captioned: the picture shows Jackon's sledge party, not Peary's. The reference to Fig. 6 at the bottom of p. 220 should be deleted, and references to Fig. 8 on pp 220 and 221 should be altered to Fig. 7. These were editorial errors, not the author's. Peary's daughter (p 221) was Marie, not Maria. We thank reader Eric Parkman Smith for his helpful comments.