TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 3217 SUBJECT: GRB 050408: Retraction of Proposed Host Galaxy DATE: 05/04/10 13:38:51 GMT FROM: Don Lamb at U.Chicago GRB 050408: Retraction of Proposed Host Galaxy D. Q. Lamb, D. G. York, and D. E. Reichart report: We agree that the galaxy we proposed as the host galaxy of GRB 040508 lies ~ 8 arcsec South-West of the burst afterglow (Kosugi et al., GCN Circular 3215; Monfardini, GCN Circular 3216) and therefore cannot be the host galaxy of the burst. This message may be cited.