860 General Notes. 
SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 
rrata.—On page 201, and 10th line of article on Directive 
Coloration, substitute Wallace for “ Darwin.” 
On the 15th line of the same paper, erase the first five words. 
ours truly, 
Tabor, Ia., Sept. 10th, 1888, J. E. Topp. 
—A summary of the little that is known of John Abbot, the 
Natural History artist of Georgia, is given by S. H. Scudder in 
the Canadian Entomologist for August, 1888. 
—Dr. Douglass H. Campbell has been appointed Associate 
Professor of Botany in Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 
—Dr. David S. Kellicott has been elected to the chair of Com- 
parative Anatomy and Zoology in the Ohio State University, 
Columbus, Ohio. 
—Dr. Julius Nelson, of Johns Hopkins University, goes to th 
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experiment station established in connection with Rutger’s Col- 
lege, at New Brunswick, N. J. 
—Mr. George H. Parker has been appointed instructor in 
Zoology at Harvard University, 
and anatomical technique. The local hotels at Champaign an 
Urbana ‘give rates of $1.50 and $1.00 per day. The headquarters 
1 the Association will be at the Caldwell House, Urbana, The 
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