258 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, ETC. 
At arecent meeting of the Board of Overseers of Harvard Uni- 
versity, the President presented votes of the corporation electing 
Francis Parkman, Professor of Horticulture, and Daniel D. Slade, 
Professor of Applied Zoology in the Bussey Agricultural Institu- 
tion, which is a department of the University. 
Mr. F. G. Sanborn has been appointed instructor in practical 
entomology in the Bussey Agricultural Institution of Harvard 
University. 
Congress recently appropriated $40,000 for the annual expenses 
of the U. S. Geologist, Dr. F. V. Hayden, who is surveying the 
Rocky Mountain region of Colorado. 
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r does as well as anythin i keep insects out, but the best st tning is to 
me that your | ae ots s are not infested before © pl acing them in very tight t box raw- 
This, s, mie bg igo remo lnces; Ben eep our insect free from hart i 
gay W. e have a favorit which by our cocker has killed in her 
“day, telat: tina aoa ton veins old, Bry lone than three thousan ‘cher 1 rats hnd M 
a either 
itching humor which bred lice, or becoming lousy her constant ay ae causes inet 
to jah, pear as if having some itching disease. However it may be, I end you some 0 
The Tic e are probably the common cat lice of this a, thought by Dr. W. I 
nett to be probably the same as the European species, Trichodectes subrostratus fi Hee 
They probably — the “itching disease.” 
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I. Reapparition du genre Arethusina, II, Faune Silurienne des environs de Hof, en 
Par J. Barrande, 8yo. Paris. 1 le aux 
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Die Mineralien in 64 colorirten abbildungen nach der natur. Von J.C. Weber. 16mo, 010% 
pp. 100. Munchen, 1 1871. Christian Kaiser, n J 
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C. Weber. 16mo, cloth, pp. 61. Munchen, 1871. te Se! Kaiser. [$4. eo he publie 
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parks of Chicago. With illustration, By E.M. Hale, XD. 12m mo, pp. 15. Chica i oi By T. 
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