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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Ilfracombe. — H. W. will be much obliged with the name 

 of any working naturalist or boatman conversant with marine 

 zoology of this coast. — 93 Bethune Road, Stamford Hill, N. 



Wanted offers for an J water immersion objective. Powell 

 & Lealand's new formula. — Jenkinson, 79 Surrey Street, 

 Sheffield. 



Ross & Co's No. 1 binocular microscope on the Jackson 

 model, complete with all modern improvements. Objectives 

 by Powell & Lealand. Cost ,£200. Will exchange for wine of 

 noted brands. — H. I., 17 Store Street, W.C. 



Rare mosses, Bauxbanmia Aphylla, Catiscopiunt Nigritium, 

 Grimmia Donniana, Bryum Warneum, Hedu/igia Ciliata, 

 Hypnum, Crista Castrensis (barren) and many others. 

 Wanted, Gardner's "Flora of Forfarshire," or "Twenty 

 Lessons on Mosses," (Gardner). — D. Robb, 280 Hilltown, 

 Dundee, N.B. 



Offers wanted for " Popular Science Review," 1877-78, in 

 one vol. Owen's " Palaeontology," Mantell's " Wonders of 

 Geology," 2 vols. ; "Medals of Creation," 2 vols. ; " Richard- 

 son's Geology," " Phillips' Treatise on Geology," 2 vols. — J. A. 

 Floyd, s Hospital Road, Bury St. Edmund's.' 



Offered, intrusive dolerite with coal embedded in matrix ; 

 also prehnite and analcrine. Wanted, micro-slides of rocks or 

 minerals, or specimens of same.— John Connor, Eldon Place, 

 Elderslie, near Johnstone, N.B. 



The medical and pharmaceutical students' collection of 

 specimens, 120 packets all named. Will exchange for store 

 boxes, setting-boards, natural history books, or what offers. — 

 William L. Balmbra, Warkworth, Northumberland. 



Wanted "The Zoologist," unbound for 1878, 1879 and 

 1880, also the Nos. for January and February 1881. Must be 

 in good condition, state price. — Charles Oldham, Ashton-on- 

 Mersey. 



Wanted, any quantity of used English postage-stamps 

 (ones now in use) send particulars of quantity also price per 

 thousand to " Stampus," 24 Sidney Grove, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 

 Also will exchange rare duplicate foreign stamps with moderate 

 collectors, send lists. 



Wanted for exchange, fossils from all formations, must be 

 good specimens. — T., 56 Clarendon Villas, West Brighton. 



Offered, oolitic and other fossils, with a few worked flint 

 flakes for literature on the oolite and lias. — J. A. H., 38 Oak 

 Road, Scarborough. 



To foreign collectors. British land, fresh-water and marine 

 shells in first-class condition, offered in exchange for those of 

 any other country. Please send list of duplicates to Fred. W. 

 Wotton, Adamsdown, Cardiff. 



Offered, 20 parts of "Intellectual Observer;" Anstead's 

 "Ancient World ; " Agassiz & Gould's " Comparative Physio- 

 logy ; " Parkhurst's ''Greek-English Lexicon;" "Sermons 

 of Latimer ; " "Writings of Hooper." Wanted, Ramsay's 

 "Geology of N. Wales;" Huxley's "Lay Sermons," and 

 " Science and Culture ; " and any vols, of " Quarterly Journal 

 of Geological Society," previous to year 1873. — J. Bickerton 

 Morgan, F.G.S., 30 Severn Street, Welshpool. 



Offered, Nassa neritea, Ohva ispidula, O. tremulina, O. 

 reticularis. Wanted, Nassa immersa, Cyclostoma ligatum. — 

 W. Jones, Junr., 27 Mayton Street, London. N. 



Wanted to exchange imagoes of Cossus ligniperda, 

 leucophearia, fascelina, pilosaria, P. chi, privet hawk. 

 Desiderata numerous. — Thomas Brown, 7 Hollings Terrace, 

 Bradford. 



Wanted, an oblong aquarium 20 to 24 in. State require- 

 ments. — W. F. Kelsey, Maldon, Essex. 



Shells for exchange, including Australian and other foreign 

 species, and a few British marine. Foreign helices not in 

 collection particularly desired. — W. A. Gain, Tuxford, 

 Newark. 



Offered, clutches and nests of black-head bunting, 

 whitethroat, sedge-warbler, greenfinch, linnet, &c. Wanted, 

 yellow wagtail, garden warbler, blackcap, whitethroat, bull- 

 finch, goldfinch, &c. — W. D. Carr, Lincoln. 



Offered, Helix sericea, Cochlicopa tridens, Zonites 

 nitidus, &c. Wanted any varieties (named) of Helix virgata, 

 caperata, cantiana, aspersa, arbustorum, pisana and 

 ericetorum, Pupa marginata (type) Clausilias Rolphii and 

 biplicata, Achatina acicula.—A. Hartley, 8 Cavendish Road, 

 Idle, near Bradford, Yorkshire. 



Wanted, coins of Edward III. Groats, half-groats, pennies, 

 half-pennies, farthings and any others of Edward's coins. 

 Also wanted an old collection of foreign stamps in return for 

 rare shells, microscopic objects, fossils, micro-sections and 

 polished geological specimens.— T. E. Sclater, Bank Street, 

 Teignmouih. 



Wanted, named butterflies in cases. Various kinds of sea- 

 eggs, excepting sphcera and miliaris, also Avicula hirundo, 

 Isocardia cor, Mangelia striolata, Vertigo moulinsiana, 

 V. pusilla, Limncea involuta, and Acme lineata, above 

 wanted in return for Scalaria clathratula, Pletiroiranchus 

 membranacea, Eulima bilineata, E. distorta and £. polita, 

 Mytilus edulis, V. pallida (very rare), Odostomias. Rare 

 kinds of rissoas, chemnitzia, and other rarer shells. List sent. 

 —A. J. R. Sclater, M.C.S., 23 Bank Street, Teignmouthj 

 Devonshire. 

 Offered, "Modern Science and Modern Thought," 



(S. Laing), "Problems of the Future" (S. Laing), and the 

 following sixpenny edition of Kingsley's works "Westward 

 Ho," "Two Vears Ago," " Hereward the Wake," "Yeast," 

 "Allan Locke," and " Hypatia," in exchange for vol. 1. 

 Jeffery's "British Conchology," or offers in European and 

 exotic land and freshwater shells. — Charles Pannell, Junr., 

 East Street, Haslemere. 



Offered, part iv. of vol. 26, "Trans. Linn. Soc." on fossil 

 cycads ; with 12 plates and odd parts of " Journ. Linn. Soc." 

 Wanted, foreign land and freshwater shells, foreign beetles, or 

 micro slides. — George Parish, 124 Kingston Road, Oxford. 



Drummond's " Nyassaland," Ronald Smith's "Stanley," 

 Kingsley's " Hypatia," "Yeast," " Westward Ho !" Dickens' 

 " Dombey & Son," Scott's " Ivanhoe," Mark Twain's " Inno- 

 cents Abroad," Lubbock's "Pleasures of Life," parts 1 and 2. 

 All paper-backed editions ; clean. Exchange for micro-slides 

 —X. Y. Z., 76 Clifton Street, Lytham. 



Sovverby's " Illustrated Index of British Shells," 1859 ed. 

 1 or 2 plates slightly stained, Burrow's "Elements of Concho- 

 logy," 28 plates, original boards, clean. Desiderata, Jenyns' 

 " Monogr. of Cyclas," Turton's " Manual," Gray's edition ; 

 "Zoologist," for 1888-9-90.— W. E. Collinge, 41 Springfield 

 Place, Leeds. 



Offered, Pis. roseum, fontinalis var. cinerea and pulchella, 

 pusillum var. grandis, Surr. elegans var. ochracea, Sp. corneum 

 var. nucleas, CI. rugosa, var. tumidula, and many other vars. 

 Wanted, A. lineata vars. substriata and one or two others, 

 and albina vars. of any species. — W. J. Farren, 15 Lome 

 Street, Fairfield, Liverpool. 



Wanted, any or all of the following numbers of Science- 

 Gossip : Nos. 217, 218, 219, 232 and 238. Offered in exchange, 

 any Nos. in 1882 (except January). — P. Thompson, 19 Guerin 

 Street, Bow, London, E. 



Offered mounted slides of cancerous liver and other human 

 tissues in exchange for embryology slides, Darwin's works, or 

 what offers. — O. T. Elliot, Belgrave, Leicester. 



Wanted, good unmounted material, also foreign shells and 

 butterflies. Exchange choice micro-slides, anatomical, double 

 stained botanical, diatoms, parasites, &c. — R. Suter, 5 

 Highweek Road, Tottenham, London. 



Will exchange a large spring net trap, for catching all kinds 

 of small birds alive, for natural history books, &c, or a first 

 issue jubilee sixpence. Offers. — H. Knights, Northdenes, 

 Great Yarmouth. 



Wanted, P. Podalirius, P. Apollo, P. Delias, or any 

 other European or exotic lepidoptera ; in exchange for American 

 .v. Cecropia, T. Polyphemus, T. Promethea, T. Cynthia, &>c, 

 or book-pattern store boxes, glass top boxes, &c. — R. Laddi- 

 man, Upper Hellesdon, Norwich. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"The School Calendar and Handbook of Examination." — 

 "Twentieth Annual Report of the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario." — " Journal of Royal Microscopical Society." — 

 " Canadian Entomologist."— " Report and Transactions of the 

 Guernsey Society of Natural Science and Local Research." — 

 "Transactions and the Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the 

 Nottingham Naturalists Society." — "A Theory of the Sun's 

 Radiation of Heat," by W. Goff — "Are Hawks and Owls 

 Injurious to Game?" by W. J. Clarke. — "Handbook for 

 Lincolnshire," (London: John Murray). — "Authenticated 

 List of the Birds of Herefordshire," by George Home 

 (Birmingham Naturalists' Printing Co.). — "Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History." — " Through North Wales with 

 a Knapsack," by four Schoolmistresses (London : Kegan Paul 

 & Co.). — "Freshwater Algae," by M. C. Cooke (London: 

 Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co.). — " Advanced Physio- 

 graphy," by John Mills (London : Chapman & Hall). — 

 "Zoological Types and Classification," by VV. E. Fothergill 

 (Edinburgh: James Thin).— " Vegetarian Messenger." — 

 " Photographic Quarterly." — " Canary Book." — " British Cage 

 Birds."— "The Naturalist."— "The Botanical Gazette."— 

 "The Gentleman's Magazine." — "American Monthly Micro- 

 scopical Journal.": — "The Midland Naturalist." — " teuille des 

 Jeunes Naturalistes." — " The Microscope." — " Book Chat," 

 &c, &c. 



Communications received up to the 12TH ult. from : 

 G. W. M— C. O.— M. C— J. S. W.— S. M.— D. W. B.— 

 R. J. S. W.— T. C. M.— W. D. R.— H. F— R. B. P.— E. C. 

 — H. P. S.— F. P. S.— W. L. B.— C. S.— J. E. L.— J. W. K.— 

 F. C. F.— W. H. T.— W. J.— H. P.— G. E. E.— R. S— H. W. 

 — W. E. C— A. M.-E. C— J. W. S.— S. A. B— A. L. C— 

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

 — H. B.— W. J. R.— M. F.— H. L. S.-J. P.— J. C. S.— G. R. 

 — S. A. B.— R. L.— J. A. H.— W. D. C— W. G. K.— F. W. W. 

 —J. B. M.— VV. J. J.— J. H.— J. D. M.— i'. B.— W. A. G.— 

 VV. B.— W. F. K.— F. C. H.— A. H.— F. P. P.— C. W.— R. L. 

 — VV. H. W.— J. P. N— W. S.— F. H.— T. S.— E. M. W.— 

 A. H.— A. W.— H. A. M.— &c, &c. 



