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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



We must remind our friends, who make use of this column, 

 that the following rules should be strictly adhered to :— 

 First. That perfect specimens be sent. Secondly. That all 

 the information as to habitat, &c, that the inquirer can give 

 should be forwarded with them. Thirdly. To bear in mind 

 that drawings, unless very perfectly executed, are useless, 

 and a tyro is very apt to omit some distinctive characteristic 

 which would enable the examiner to decide the genus and 

 species of the object sent. Lastly. Never to send an object 

 for identification until the inquirer has used his best endea- 

 vours to find out for himself all the information he requires. 

 Questions are very frequently sent, which the slightest effort 

 on the part of the querist, in looking through some elementary 

 treatise, would have given all the knowledge required. 



J. Caibns.— Your plants are the White Beam-tree (Pyrus 

 aria), and the Rock-rose (Helianthemnm vulgare). 



J. S. Harrison, and many others.— Our warmest thanks 

 are due for the numerous expressions of sympathy we have 

 lately received regarding the death of our late publisher. It 

 s very gratifying to us to find that fo many readers of this 

 journal held its founder in such deservedly high estimation. 



F. C. — Your specimen is a piece of highly crystallized mica- 

 schist, such as you may obtain in any abundance en the 

 shores of Loch Lomond. 



Wood Lice. — Perhaps some of our correspondents can 

 inform H. J. B. how to clear his fernery of these pests. 



F. G.— The name of the tree you mention is correctly 

 spelt. 



W. B., Saddleworth. — The Pile-wort (Ranunculus ficuria) 

 is also called Lesser Celandine. 



A. J. Wright.— Wood's " Insects at Home," or " Episodes 

 of Insect Life.'' will give you the information you seek re- 

 specting aquatic species. 



Erratum.— In Mr. Clifford's paper on " Fritillaries," pub- 

 lished last month, a transposition was made between Nos. 

 44 and 45, which will have been evident to our entomological 

 readers. Each figure has the name of the other. 



Rev. S. A. B. — The fish were decomposed when they 

 reached us. They are the Smooth-tailed Stickleback (Guster- 

 onteus leiurus). 



W. F. W., Chard.— The plant sent is the Green Hellebore 

 (Helleborus viridis). 



G. L H. — The fungus enclosed is Peziza aurantia. 



C. H. R.— Your letter, asking the name of "the enclosed 

 plant " did not contain any specimen. 



G. H. Payne. — Your specimen is the Oxlip {Primula latior), 

 not uncommon in meadows. 



A. C. R. L. M. — Your plant appears to be the Stinking 

 Iris, or " Gladdon " (Iris f<etidis*ima). 



H. Emerson.— Canon Kingsley's "At Last" dwells at 

 length on the geology and natural history of the West Indian 

 islands, especially of Trinidad. See also Grisebach's " Flora 

 of the West Indies;" Gosse's "Naturalist in Jamaica;" 

 and the recently published work entitled " The Pearl of the 

 Antilles." 



H. W. T. (Rugby).— Yours ferns are : — 



Polystichum angulare. 

 A seedling form of Pteris 

 aquitina, the common 

 Erake of our hills and 

 commons. 



P. angular'; is a very variable species, as changeable almost 

 as a chameleon. 



1. Polystichum angulare. 



2. Polystichum aculeatum. 



3. Do. d0 -1 S eedlin 



4. Do. do.j seetmn 



EXCHANGES. 



Wanted, specimens of Fruits, Seed, and other Vegetable 

 Products used in the arts, or otherwise interesting, especially 

 Lace-bark and Rice-paper.— W. Piper, F. Sutton & Co., 

 Bank Plain, Norwich. 



For Cuticle of Tulip send a stamped directed envelope to 

 W. H. Gomm, Somerton, Taunton. 



Larvae of Scarlet Tiger-moth, for British Lepidoptera 

 (Imago). — W. Lewis, Walmer-court, Walmer, Kent. 



Wanted to purchase the following works: — "British 

 DesmidieK," Ralfs; "British Fresh-water Algse,'' Hassall; 

 "British Diatomaceae,'' Smith.— R. Bythele, g, Hesketh- 

 crescent, Torquay. 



Land and Fresh-water Shells, Diamond and Burying 

 Beetles, and other Lepidoptera, for Eggs of the Raven, 

 Merlin Hawk, and Kite.— C. Dixon, 60, Albert-road, Heeley, 

 Sheffield. 



Wanted, Silkworms' Eggs, in exchange for " The Parlour 

 Telegraph," comprising Single-needle Instrument, Battery, 

 Connecting Wires, and Instructions. — Joseph Gaunt, 23, 

 Martin-street, Woodland-terrace, Halifax. 



Parasites (unmounted), for good Mounted Objects. List 

 exchanged.— F. J. Kingsbury, 7, Loughborough-Park-road, 

 Brixton, S.W. 



D. Fleming, 1, Lorne-terrace, Strathbungo, Glasgow, will 

 be glad to exchange Kenny Meadow's edition of Shakspeare 

 for a good working Microscope or a standard Natural His- 

 tory. There are twenty-five 2s. parts unbound. 



Wanted, Parasite of Bat (Nycteridia), also Ixodes from 

 Boa or Snakes. Good exchange given.— H. E. Freeman, 48, 

 Woodstock-road, Finsbury-park, N. 



Marine Polyzoa, British and Foreign, many species, in 

 exchange for others (unmounted). — Send list to George D. 

 Brown, Henley Villa, Ealing, W. 



For exchange, Normandy's "Commercial Analysis," quite 

 new, one leaf only gone. Geological slides preferred. — Apply 

 to Wm. Sargant, jun., (.averswall, Stoke-on-Trent. 



For anything useful in Natural History — Lizards (living), 

 also Beetles, Larvae, Ova, Insects, &c. — from fresh or salt 

 water; also Diatoms, Foraminifera, Zoophytes, Mollusca, 

 Echini, Algse (prepared for mounting in balsam, &c), Mosses, 

 and various other Botanical and Marine Material, Fucus 

 Mackaii in fructification, &c. &c. — Terence McGann, Burrin, 

 Ireland. 



For well-mounted Transparent Injected Human Kidney, 

 send other first-class Injection A few others to exchange. — 

 W. Tylar, 165, Well-street, Birmingham. 



Plants from the South of France, for rare Mosses, 

 Lichens, or Alpine or Mountain Plants; not others.- 1 - Apply to 

 X. H., Highfield, Sydenham Hill, S.E. 



For Diatomaceous Earth from Virginia, U.S.A., and 

 Foraminifera from Mediterranean and other localities, send 

 stamped directed envelope and good mounted or unmounted 

 Object, to R. S. Fletcher, West Stockwith, near Gainsborough. 



Wanted, Plants of Va'isneria, and other Plants suitable 

 for Aquarium.— S. A. Brenan, Pomeroy, co. Tyrone. 



Viola Curtisii, Equisetum armarium, &c, for rare Alpine 

 or Foreign Plants. — J. Harbord Lewis, 180, Mill-street, 

 Liverpool, S. 



Larvje of Hypercompa dominula sad Porthesiachrysorrhaia, 

 in exchange for British Marine and Land and Fresh-water 

 Shells.— Address, Sidney Smith, Castle-street, Walmer, Kent. 



Puccinia Smyrnii for other good Mico-fungi. — J. H. A. 

 Jenner, Lewes. 



For Seeds of Collomia (spiral fibres), send stamped 

 directed envelope to F. Coles, 248, King's-road, Chelsea. 



Wanted, two or three river Crayfish for preserving ; also 

 a few Dytiscus marginalis and Hydrous piceus. In exchange, 

 British Lepidoptera or Fossils from the Barton clay. — E. B. 

 Kemp Welch, Bournemouth. 



Good Slides of Stellate Hairs from stem of Aralia 

 papyrifera, for mounted objects. List exchanged. — 30, 

 Silent-street, Ipswich. 



T. J. would be glad to exchange Pleistocene Sand, rich in 

 Foraminifera from March, for Silurian Trilobites. — 192, 

 Piccadilly. 





BOOKS, &c. RECEIVED. 



"Worksop," "The Dukery," and " Sherwood Forest : 

 Works of Robert White. 



" Popular Science Review.'' April. 



*' Monthly Microscopical Journal." April. 



"The Colonies." 



" Land and Water." 



" Les Mondes." 



" Ben Brierley's Journal." 



" Journal of Applied Science." 



" American Naturalist." 



" Canadian Entomologist." 



Communications Received up to 17th ult. from 

 M. B.-H. E. W.— H. P. M.— H. W. H.— W. L— C. D 

 J. S. H— G P.— W. T. B.— W. T.— C. M. C— F. B.— C. W 

 J. H.- J. A.-R. H. N. B— R. B.— E. H. G— L. K. T.— A. 

 — M. H— L. G. H.-S. W.-J. F.— F. B. D— H. W. T.— F. 

 — W B.— A. J. W.— T. B. W.-O. P. C— J. H. W.— A. H 

 J. W. D. H.— S. A. B.— W. F. W.— W. G. P.— J. H. A. J 



F. C— C. P. H.— W. H. G.— E. B. K. W.— J. C— A. H 

 J. F.— A. F. M.— B. G. C— F. C— H. J. B.— A. B., jun 

 E. A. G.— W. J. S. S— W. W.— F. S.- A. D— T. H— H.M.C. 



G. B.-J. T. T. R.— F. C. C— C. S.— G. A. L.— L. T.— J. B 

 W. L.— A. J. R. S.-H. M. J. U.— H. K— J. H. A.— W 

 jun— G. D. B.-A. H.— A. P. H.— T. McG.— J. G.— F. J. K 

 H. E. F.— E. H.— D. F.— T. E.— T. E. J.— W. H. B.— M. K 

 J. DeC.-T. G. B— W. H. P.— T. B. B.-Dr. D.— H. E 

 H. G. G— J.W.W.— C. H. R.— G. H. P.— S. J.— A.C. R. L 

 — F. & T. R.— K. D., &c, &c, 



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