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Colleagues may have greeted the news that the Arts and Humanities Research Board had spent ?89.99 million on museums and galleries in 1999-2000 with disbelieving delight ("For the record", THES , September 28).

These are, sadly, riches beyond our imagining, and as your correction made clear (For the record, THES , October 5) the figure is incorrect in the Higher Education Funding Council for England's annual report.

Colleagues may have greeted the news that the correct figure was ?8.99 with some dismay. The correct figure is ?8.99 million. We at the AHRB find that if you look after the decimal points, the pounds look after themselves.

David Eastwood
Chief executive, Arts and Humanities Research Board