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HA RD WICKE'S SCIENCE- G OSSIP. 



Science-Gossip from commencement (20 vols.), handsomely 

 bound in publishers' cases, in exchange for novels and books 

 relating to Eliot, Bronte, and Jane Austen. — Chas. F. Bishop. 

 Offered, i-inch achromatic object glass, in exchange for 

 books on entomology or the microscope. — \V. F. Kelsey, 

 Maldon. 



Wanted, a first-class chemical balance with working parts 

 of agate, and susceptible to i milligramme. Also combustion 

 furnace, potash bulbs, and any other apparatus for organic and 

 volumetric analysis. — A. J. Doherty, 63 Burlington Street, 

 Manchester. 



For exchange, Vertigo angus/ior (dead shells), Cyrena 

 flumi/ialis, Paludina welanostoma, Circe minima, Planorbis 

 exustus, Tryonia protea, Otina otis, R. cingillus, var. ru- 

 pestris, Pandora, Scrobicularia tenuis, &c. Desiderata, 

 shells, British and foreign, not in collection. — Brockton 1'omlin, 

 The Green, Llandaff, near Cardiff. 



Wanted, beetles, shells, eggs and butterflies, in exchange 

 for finished fretwork tables, brackets, inkstands, photo frames, 

 &c. — Alstead, North Street, Jarrow-on-Tyne. 



Offered, Limas lavis, shells, or living animals. Pupa 

 ringens, Zotiities fulvus, &c, and sections of marine and other 

 shells. Wanted, Helix pomatia, cartusiana, C. rolpliii, 

 biplicata, Z. drapaaraldii, and European land and freshwater 

 shells. Continental correspondence desired. — F. Rhodes, 26 

 East View, Eccleshill, Bradford, Yorks. 



In exchange for six micro-slides I will forward about fifty 

 specimens of animal hairs and brilliant feathers. — Arthur H. 

 Williams, Hythe. 



Wanted, any parts of Braithwaite's " British Moss Flora." 

 Liberal exchange given in other books on medicine, entomology, 

 travels, fiction, &c. — J. A. Wheldon, 4 Rosebank Road, Leeds. 

 Offered, sixty-three numbers of the " Quarterly Journal of 

 Microscopical Science" (col. plates), from 1853 to 1869, mostly 

 complete, and covering most interesting period ; thirty-nine 

 numbers of the "Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society," 

 2 vols, each 1880-83, w ''h three odd numbers and two indices ; 

 "American Monthly Micro. Journal," first 4 vols, complete, 

 and two extra numbers; "American Journal of Microscopy," 

 first 5 vols, complete, and four extra numbers; Science- 

 Gossip for 1879, &c. Wanted, Leidy's " Rhizopods," and 

 Allman's " Freshwater Polyzoa." — J. E. Lord, 35 Bank Street, 

 Raw tens tall. 



Wanted, to exchange Berkeley's " British Mosses," Goebel's 

 "Morphology and Classification of Plants," Behren's "General 

 Botany," and other botanical works. Will take good Spanish 

 or Italian Dictionary, or standard foreign literature. — J. W. B., 

 56 Vine Street, Liverpool. 



A large number of British and foreign land and freshwater 

 shells, with localities, in exchange for microscopic slides. — 

 L. M. Cockerell, 3 Fairfax Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. 

 Wanted, first-class mounted microscopic objects, and books 

 relating to the microscope or photography. Offered in ex- 

 change, two bound volumes of Science-Gossip for 1884-86, 

 "Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society," for 1888 and 

 1889, unbound, or mounting materials and apparatus. — W. H. 

 Pratt, 27 Regent Street, Nottingham. 



What offers in shells, fossils, or stone implements, for a fine 

 collection of seeds, one thousand varieties, mounted on cards, 

 in trays, and fitted in case. — Thomas Reader, 171 Hemingford 

 Road, London, N. 



Wanted, good unmounted material, also foreign shells, in 

 exchange for choice micro-slides of all kinds, and British 

 marine shells. — R. Suter, 5 Highweek Road, Tottenham, 

 London. 



Wanted, a copy of Science-Gossip for January, 1888, in 

 exchange for specimens of H. virgata, H. caperata, H. can- 

 tiana, V. cristata, L. glutinosa, &c. — A. Mayrield, 88 Stafford 

 Street, Norwich. 



Wanted, foreign land and freshwater shells of all kinds, 

 European species more especially. British shells given in 

 exchange. Lists sent and received. Foreign correspondents 

 desired. — W. I. Farrer, 15 Lome Street, Fairfield, Liverpool. 



Useful offers wanted for Science-Gossip, vols. 1875-89; 

 years 1875-78 bound, remainder unbound, all in splendid con- 

 dition. — Robt. Glasper, 8 Cambridge Avenue. Pilvig. Leith. 



Wanted, well-marked varieties of sphaerium and pisidium. 

 State desiderata. — W. E. Coll nge, 41 Springfield Place, Leeds. 

 Duplicates. — C. album, selene, edusa, pafihia, rhamni, 

 corydon, lorricerir, loveata, vespertaria, remutata, populeti, 

 autumnaria, lariciata, and numerous others. Desiderata, 

 birds' eggs. — Walter Dutton, Piccadilly, Yoik. 



Wanted, living specimens of freshwater snails, and also 

 animals, in exchange for chalk and other fossils, also mounted 

 specimens of microzoa.— J. W. B. Rodgers, 54 London Road, 

 Highfield, Sheffield. 



Micro-slides. — Insects, mosses, hepaticae, sp'ders, &c, for 

 other good mounts ; also diptera for other species, either set or 

 in glycerine. — W. E. Green, 24 Triangle, Bristol. 



Will give rare British shells for the following foreign ones: 

 venerupis, pectunculus, avicula, spondylus, turnatella, emar- 

 ginula, trochus, fusus, scalaria, odostomia, eulima, and ovulum. 

 Lists sent.— A. J. R. Sclater, M.C.S., 23 Bank Street, Teign- 

 mouth, Devon. 

 Minerals wanted. Quartz crystals, double reflecting spars, 



labradorite, good specimens of copper and tin, cobalt, chal- 

 cosiderite, Derby spar, Iceland spar, needle iron ore, or any 

 other showy mineral crystals, in return for rare and beautiful 

 objects for mounting for the microscope, fossils, polished speci- 

 mens of Devonian corals and sponges, &c. Lists sent by — 

 T. E. Sclater, Bank Street, Teignmouth. 



Offered, Planorbis albus, nitidus and vortex, S. comeum, 

 var. neucleus, L. stagnalis, var. fragilis, var. cristata; also 

 fine P.fo?itinalis and others. Wanted, rarer British land and. 

 freshwater shells, also foreign land and freshwater species. — 

 P. R. Shaw, 48 Bidston Road, Oxton, Birkenhead. 



Offered, plants of Parnassia palustris, which will shortly 

 flower, also Hydrobice ulvte and Pisidium nitidum. Wanted, 

 H. nemoralis, reversed form, Bulimus obscurus, var. alba, any 

 vertigos, Unio tumidus, and other land and freshwater shells. 

 — A. Whitworth, 65 Talbot Street, Southport, Lanes. 



To curators of museums and others. — Three collections of 

 Australian plants, containing 320, 140, and 135 species, named 

 and localized, are offered in exchange for shells or concho- 

 logical works. — W. A. Gain, ' uxford, Newark. 



Wanted, Helix aspersa, ar. undulata, and Helix arbus- 

 torum, var. alpestris, for other land and freshwater shells. — 

 John Radcliffe, in Oxford Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lanes. 



Wanted, British fossils from all formations. Will give in 

 exchange land, freshwater, and marine shells. — Chas. Pannell, 

 jun., East Street, Haslemere. 



Ammonites from Folkestone (gault), Whitby, Lyme Regis 

 (lias), offered in exchange for good fossil echina, any bones or 

 teeth from red crag, &c. ; also good rhynconellae and tere- 

 bratulae wanted. — Chas. Wardingley, 30 Blackwood Crescent,. 

 Edinburgh. 



Micro-slides, assorted, to exchange for others, or for books 

 or any objects of interest. Approval. — A. Earland, 3 Eton 

 Grove, Lee, S.E. 



Science-Gossip for 1885 and 1886, loose, four numbers 

 missing; egg cabinet, stained deal, four drawers, n| inches 

 high, 15! inches long, n| inches broad, containing 130 English 

 eggs, also a few unnamed foreign shells, in exchange for 

 curiosities. — G. Waters, 21 Westbourne Park Road, Bays- 

 water, W. 



To be disposed of, Rowland Ward & Co.'s naturalist's 

 camera, complete in walnut box, almost new. Address — Rev. 

 J. J. Merry, Rolleston Vicarage, Newark. 



Wanted, P. roseum, B. Leacliii, L. involuta, A. lacustris,. 

 T. halioiidea, S. oblonga, Z. Draparnaldi, H. lamellata, H. 

 revelata, B. montanus, P. ringens, A. lineata, or vertigos. 

 Offered, marine shells. List sent. — James Simpson, 51 Loch- 

 Street, Aberdeen, N.B. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"Plant Organization," by R. H. Ward (Boston, U.S.A. : 

 Green & Co.).—" National Health," by B. W. Richardson, 

 M.D., K.R.S. (London: Longmans). — "Pond Life: Algae and 

 Allied Forms," by T. S. Smithson (London : Swan Sonnen- 

 schein & Co.). — " The Colours of Animals, their Meaning and 

 Use," by E. B. Poulton, M.A., etc. (London : Kegan Paul 

 & Co.).— "Mungo Park and the Niger," by J. Thomson 

 (London : George Philip). — " Catalogue of the Flowering Plants, 

 etc., found in Dover and Neighbourhood," by W. T. Havdon. 

 — "Rambles and Reveries of a Naturalist," by Rev. W. 

 Spiers (London: C. H. Kelly). — "The Ether Theory of 1839 

 is the True Theory of the Leyden Jar," and " Facts which 

 Prove that Faraday's Two- Force Theory of Electricity is 

 False," by James Johnstone (Edinburgh: James Gemmell). — 

 "Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Ingleton, Clapham and 

 District," by W. E. Collinge. — " On the Hymenoptera of 

 Colorado," by W. H. Ashmead (Colorado Biological Associa- 

 tion). — " Cloud Nomenclature," by Capt. D. Wilson Barker. — 

 "Entomologist's Monthly Magazine." — "Annals and Maga- 

 zine of Natural History." — " Le Diatomiste." — "Canary 

 Book." — " British Cage Birds." — "By Sea and Shore." — 

 "The Naturalist's Weather Guide" (Birmingham Naturalist's 

 Publishing Co.).— "The Asclepiad."—" Research."— " The 

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

 Magazine." — "American Monthly Microscopical Journal." — 

 "The Midland Naturalist." — " Feuille des Jeunes Natural- 

 istes." — "The American Naturalist." — "The Microscope." — 

 " The Entomologist." — " Book Chat," &c, &c. 



Communications rechived up to the 12TH ult. from : 



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 W. F. K.— A. J. H. C.-E. P.— G. W. H— L. M. C— 

 J. W. B.— F. Le-B. B.— H. F.— W. J. S.— R. S.— T. W. R.— 

 J. B.— W. N. P.— W. J. F.— W. T.— R. G.— C. F. B.— L. R. 

 — H. D.— J. R.— J. E. N.— W. A. G.— E. A.— J. B. R.— 

 J. E. K.— W. E. G— J. E. L.— R. M. S.— J. S.— P. R. S.— 



A. J. R. S.— C. W. P.— W. E. C— H. P. M.— J. J. M.— 



B. C. R.— J. P. N.— C. W.-C. F. W.— J. C. S.— W. P.— 

 A. W.— H. E.— B. T.— W. D.— J. W. B.— H. W.— P. R. S. 

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G. M.— D. R.— W. H. T.— H. I.— J. E. V.— A. G. T.-A. S. 



