An error occurred in the article "Metaphyseal Cortical Defects in the Tubular Bones of Growing Children" by Samuel Selby, M.R.C.S., J. Bone and Joint Surg., 43-A: 395 400, Apr. 1961. The last sentence of the next to the last paragraph before the center heading Conclusion on page 399 should read "These defects, therefore, lasted longer than those in the series of Sontag and Pyle, in which defects were observed to persist for an average of twenty-nine months".