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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



foreign lepidoptera, birds' eggs, or shells. — \V. Hewett, 3 Wilton 

 Terrace, Fulford Road, York. 



For disposal, a number of carhoniferous, Silurian, lias, and 

 cretaceous fossil>. Offers wanted. — J. A. Fioyd, 5 Hospital 

 Road, Bury St. Edmunds. 



Wanted the January number for 1885 of Science-Gossip 

 (241). Numbers 162, 180, and.200 for exchange. — Henry A. 

 Francis, 14 York Place, Clifton, Bristol. 



Mounted slides. — Blood of newt and frog, stained, and 

 diatoms from fuller's earth, hydra and melicerta ringens, living, 

 offered for good mounted slides. — C. McWatters, 12 Spring- 

 field Place, Bath. 



For exchange, " Harper's Monthly,'' January to December, 

 1889, good condition, unbound. Wanted, scientific books, 

 magazines, or birds' eggs. Offers to — F. \V. Paple, 62 Waterloo 

 Street, Bolton. 



For exchange, fossils from most formations. Wanted, fossils 

 and rocks. Lists exchanged. — S. H. Reynolds, Southover, 

 West Worthing. 



Offered, a small collection of animal hairs, mounted in 

 balsam, for same number of well-selected diatoms, mounted in 

 like medium. — J. H. M., 10 Beaufort Square, Chepstow, Mon. 



Will exchange British and Belgian specimens of mosses, 

 lichens, and hepaticae, correctly named and localized, for 

 natural history specimens, star-fish, echini or shells preferred, 

 not necessarily British. — H. B. Preston, jun , 54 Lexham 

 Gardens, Kensington, W. 



Offered, Science-Gossip for 1888 and 1889, and Nos. 187- 

 192, and 265 ; also many varieties of foreign shells. Wanted, 

 stamps, coins, and the rare British shells. — Mrs. Heitland, 

 The Priory, Shrewsbury. 



Wanted, Acme lineata, H. olrvoluta, Limax gagates, L. 

 flavus, L. Icevus, Limncra involnta, S. oblonga, S. virescens, 

 V. angustior, V. lilljeborgi, V. moulinsiana, V. substriata, 

 V. tumida, Hy. similis. Offered, H. fusca, T. Iialiobidea, 

 numerous shells, fossils, &c. — John Hawell, M.A., Ingleby 

 Yicarage, Northallerton. « 



The " Band of Hope Review," containing first-class large 

 engravings, stories poems, and articles with religious and 

 temperance teaching, &c. ; would make a good volume, if 

 bound together, of interesting reading. Eighty-one numbers, 

 in fair condition. What offers? — T. E. Sclater, jun., Bank 

 Street, Teignmouth. 



Wanted, Helix hortensis, var. incarnata, in exchange for 

 other land and freshwater shells. — John Radcliffe, 111 Oxford 

 Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lanes. 



Wanted, foreign shells, stamps, and conchological books, 

 in exchange for choice micro-slides and British marine shells. — 

 R. Suter, 5 Highweek Road, Tottenham. 



Wanted, Ridgway's " Manual of North American Birds." 

 Offered, books on English birds to value. — K., iA Penn Road 

 Villas, Holloway, N. 



Ludlow, Llandeilo, and Wenlock fossils in exchange for 

 fossils from all formations, and volcanic rocks. Lists exchanged. 

 — W. H. Banks, Ridgebourne, Kington, Herefordshire. 



Offered, polished granite chips, land, freshwater, and marine 

 shells. Wanted, British fossils or minerals. Lists exchanged. 

 — James Simpson, 51 Loch Street, Aberdeen. 



Wanted, pathological micro-slides ; will exchange books, 

 &c. — Wood, 127 Bellevue Road, Leeds. 



Offered, L. C., 8th ed.: about 100 species, including 40, 

 76<r, 98, 121, 140, 254, 260, 335, 754, 829, 1088, 1237, 1255, 1385, 

 1474, 1592, 1595, 1694. Many desiderata in phaenerogamiae, 

 musci, hepaticae, and algae. Lists exchanged. — Miss E. 

 Armitage, Dadnor, Ross. 



Fine specimens of P. lineatus, V. crisla/a, N. fluviatilis, 

 var. tri/asciata, and many others. Wanted, H. pomatia, H. 

 similis, H. latnellata, and H. pisana, var. alba. Lists ex- 

 changed. — W. Thurgood, 36 Vyner Street, Haxby Road, York. 



Offered, Rymer Jones' "General Structure of the Animal 

 Kingdom," Taylor's "Collecting and Preserving Natural 

 History Objects," Adams' "Our Feathered Families," Kirby 

 and Spence's " Entomology." Wanted, " Origin of Species," 

 " Voyage of the Beagle," White's " Microscopical Manipula- 

 tion," &c. — F. Emsley, 98 West Street, Leeds. 



Wanted, round and small size glass-top boxes : will give 

 fir^t-class exchange in either fossils, rare British marine shells, 

 rare land and freshwater shells, some Cornish drift, very rich in 

 rare shells, microscopic objects, and other organisms. Also 

 offered, Pyroxene andesite (rare) from the interior of Mexico, 

 which makes beautiful slides for the microscope, chips of rare 

 Devonian (Madrepore) corals and sponges to work up for 

 micro purposes. Wanted, Mactra helvacea and A. lineata. 

 Correspondence invited. — Alfred J. R. Sclater, M.C.S., 23 Bank 

 Street, Teignmouth, South Devon. 



Offered, L. C, 8th ed. : 32, 138, 294, 500, 661, 662, 668, 

 712, 774, 954. 986, 10/4, 1269, 1330, 1335, 1558, in exchange for 

 others.— A. Sangstei, Ivy Cottage, Cattie, Uld Meldrum, N.B. 



Land and freshwater shells, also Cyprcea Europa-a for others. 

 Send for lists. — H. B. Preston, jun., 54 Lexham Gardens, 

 Kensington, W. 



Wanted, last edition of Flower's " Osteology." State de- 

 siderata. — P. Tracy, Ipswich Museum. 



Duplicates. — Sph. lacustre, Sph. rivicola. I', piscinalis 

 P. contecta, P. dilatatus, P. albus, P. glaber, L. Aruncatula, 



H. sericea, H. arbustorum, Z. glaber, C. Aridens, Car. 

 minimum, &*c. Wanted, all varieties of H. aspersa.—F. C. 

 Long, 8 Cog Lane, Burnley, Lancashire. 



Wanted, to purchase a good reliable work on the British 

 Gramineae. — W. Biddiscombe, 60 St. James' Place, Plum- 

 stead, S.E. 



Offerbu, live specimens of Limncca peregra, L. palustris 

 and _ H. ru/escens. Also thirty foreign stamps, including 

 Brazil, India, Cuba, Hongkong, Japan, Tasmania, Porto Rico, 

 &c, all different. Wanted, land and freshwater shells or 

 fossils. — A. Whitworth, 65 Talbot Street, Southport, Lancashire. 

 Tongues of Patella vulgata, &c, offered in exchange for 

 named zoophytes or micro-material. — A. Vigar, 77 High Street, 

 Ranisgate. 



Wanted, a clean cheap copy of the latest edition of Hooker's 

 " British Flora," other books or cash in exchange. — W. A. 

 Gain, Tuxford, Newark. 



Gosse's," Evenings at the Microscope," for pamphlets on 

 foraminifera, zoophytes and polyzoa, or lor same unmounted or 

 forarniniierous material (localized).— Smith, 134 VVilderspore 

 Road, Warrington. 



Wanted, Clausilia laminata-rugosa, V. piscinalis, B. 

 teutaculata, A. cygnacus. Offered Tellina bathica, L. rudis- 

 obtusata, P. vulgata, N. catena. — W. Jones, junr., 27 Mavton 

 Street, Holloway. 



Wanted, collection of igneous rocks for crystals of galen t 

 and other minerals.— G. H., 8 Tothill Street, S.W. 



Wanted, fossils from Cambrian, Old Red, or Devonian. I 

 will give a liberal exchange in carboniferous fossils for one good 

 specimen from any of the above.— P. J. Roberts, 4 Shepherd 

 Street, Bacup. 



Vermes. — Wanted, conodonts and other annelid fossils, also 

 annelid micro mounts, &c. Good exchange given. — J. Hornell, 

 io5« Grove Street, Liverpool. 



Will exchange " British Mollusca," Jeffreys, the first 4 vols., 

 32 consecutive numbers "Journal of Conchology," Taylor, 

 "Shell Collectors Handbook," Williams. 5^. ed., "Jonnston's 

 Introduction to Conchology," for standard books upon the 

 English lias or oolite formations. — A. Loydell, 20 Stanley 

 Gardens, The Vale, Acton, W. 



Wanted, "Entomologist" for 1S81 ; also Nos. for July, 

 Aug., and Sept., 1888 ; Sept., Oct., and Nov., 1887 ; Feb., 

 1886 ; and any vols previous to 1835. Also the " Entomological 

 Magazine." Will give o her books, insects, birds' eggs or 

 skins, or shells in exchange. — S. L. Mosley, Beaumont Park 

 Museum, HudJersfield. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" Hampstead Hill : Its Structure, Materials and Sculpturing," 

 by J. Logan Lobley, F.G.S. (London: Roper & Drowley). — 

 " List of British Diptera," by G. H. Verrull, F.E.S. (London: 

 Pratt & Co.).— "The Southern Skies," by R. A. Proctor 

 (London: W. H. Allen & Co.).— " Illustrated Manual of 

 British Birds," by Howard Saunders, Parts xviii., xix., 

 and xx. — " Our Unappreciated Petroleum Empire," by Chas. 

 Marvin.—" Index of British Plants," by R. Turnbull (London : 

 Geo. Bell). — " Five Thousand Miles in a Sledge," by L. F. 

 Gowing (London: Chatto & Windus). — "Foods for the Fat," 

 by Dr. N. E. Davis (London : Chatto & Windus). — "Physio- 

 logy of Bodily Exercise," by F. Lagrange, M.D. (London : 

 Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.). — " Palestine," by Major C. R. 

 Conder, D.C.L. &c. (London: Geo. Philip & Son).— " Occa- 

 sional Thoughts of an Astronomer on Nature and Revelation," 

 Rev. C. Pritchard, D.D., F.R.S. (London: John Murray). — 

 "The Mollusca of the Great Yarmouth District," by J. B. 

 Beckett.— " The Story of Chemistry," by H. W. Picton, B.Sc. 

 (London: Wm. Ibister). — " Astronomy with an Opera Glass," 

 by G. P. Serviss (London : W. Allen & Co., Caxton House, 

 Paternoster Row. — "Journal of Conchology." — "Canadian 

 Entomologist." — "Research." — "The Century Magazine." — 

 "The Amateur Photographer." — "The Naturalist. — "The 

 Botanical Gazette." — " Belgravia." — " The Gentleman's 

 Magazine."—" The Midland Naturalist." — " Feuilledes Jeunes 

 Naturalistes." — " The Microscope." — " Cassell's Technical 

 Educator," &c, &c. 



Communications received up to the ioth ult. from: 

 G. R.— G. B.— H. E. L.— S. B.-F. S.— A. J. B.— H. E.— 



E. O. M.— Miss P.— T. W.— B. D.— G. P.— W. W.— O. T. E. 

 — W. H.-W. D. S.— J. A. F.— W. A. D.— G. S. G.— R. T. S. 

 —J. P. N.— R. J. U— R. J. A.— A. H. S.— H. B. B.— J. B. M. 

 — H. F.— W. S.— T. D. W.-W. F. K.— H. R.— S. P. H.— 

 J. M.— J. H. M.— R. B. P.— C. A. W.— R. J. P.— F. M. H.— 

 H. A. F.— W. G.— J. W. S.— T. B. B.— W. L.— R. W. P.— 

 A. C. S.— W. T.— A. W. H.— T. R. N— M. A. B.— T. E. A. T. 

 —J. T. H.— A. V.— H. W. L.— J. C. S.-W. J. S.— Mrs. H— 

 H. F.— J. Y.— W. A. G.— E. W.— A. W.— W. B.— E. V. P.— 



F. C. L.— J. R.— S. & H.— C. McW.— W. T.— J. E. W— 

 A. C. D.— F. W. P.— A. M.— J. S.— J. H. K.— J. A. W.— 

 R. S.— C. A. W.— T. E. S.— A. J. R. S.— H. J. T.— J. H.— 

 E. D. M.— S. A. B.— J. H. M.— F. W.— E. V. P.— F. E.— 

 E. A.— S. H. R.-P. T.— J. B. B.— F. N— A. L.— J. S.— 

 A. G. T.— W. J. J.— G. H.— W. P. H.-S. L. M.— P. J. R. 

 — D. B.— J. H.-W. H.— A. L.— &c. &c. 



