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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



secting microscope, binocular field-glass of good power, or 

 collection of British shells, minerals, &c. — E. Bostock, Stone, 

 Staffs. 



Wanted, good unmounted diatom material, in exchange for 

 mounted diatoms. — Wynne E. Baxter, 170 Church Street, 

 Stoke Newington, N. 



Wanted, British marine shells, particularly species of pec- 

 ten, in exchange for a "Demon" detective camera, with 

 developers and plates. — Chas. Pannell, jun., East Street, 

 Haslemere. 



Shklls. — Pecten opercularis, P. tigrinus, P. maximus, 

 Area lactea, Cardium echinatum, Cyprina islandica, and 

 var. crassior, Venus exoleta, Scrobularia tenuis, Tectum 

 testudinalis, Trockus ttimidus, T. ziziphinns, Trichotropsis 

 borealis, Murex erinaceus, M. aciculatus, Trpphon tritncatus, 

 Fusus gracilis, F. antiquus, Pleurotoma turricttla, Pleuro- 

 branchus membranetis, &c. Wanted, Newman's " Butterflies 

 and Moths," insects, micro-slides, or other shells not in collec- 

 tion, or good books on insects. — W. D. Rae, 9 Claremont 

 Terrace, Alpha Road, Millwall, Lo cdon. 



Wanted, a good egg cabinet to hold not less than 250 

 varieties. Good exchange offered. — F. Stanley, Margate. 



Quantity of duplicates in various branches of natural 

 history, British and foreign shells, fossils, and birds' eggs, in 

 exchange for varieties new to collection, or cabinets for eggs or 

 shells. — F. Stanley, Margate. 



A collection of seeds collected by the late Mr. Smith, 

 curator of Kew, 1000 varieties, mounted on cards and arranged 

 in trays in large case, all named, offered in exchange, or part 

 exchange, for a good collection of fossils or shells. — Thos. W. 

 Reader, 171 Hemingford Road, Barnsbury, London, N. 



Duplicate eggs. — Kite, sparrow-hawk, owls, redstart, black 

 redstart, blackcap, whitethroat, chiff-chaff, skylark, goldcrest, 

 tree and meadow pipits, wood wren, blue, cole, crested, great, 

 marsh, and long-tailed tits, white wagtail, house and sand- 

 martins, lapwing, sandpiper, barbary partridge, red grouse, 

 black-headed gull, herring gull, eider, guillemot, and many 

 others ; all pairs and singles, no clutches. Wanted, herons, 

 bearded tit, wheatear, stonechat, march harrier, dunlin, ruff, 

 whimbrel, night heron, grey-leg goose, garganey, golden-eye, 

 Richardson's skua, and many others. — Hollis, Grantham. 



Wanted, animal and vegetable hairs for micro mounting, in 

 exchange for unmounted micro seeds or young cactus plants. — 

 J. T. Holder, 18 Casella Road, Hatcham, S.E. 



Finely preserved sea-urchins (E. sphte'ra), also shells— 

 Mytilus incurva, pellucida, T. fabida, H. pellucidum, T. 

 testudinalis, H. ulvce, S. corneum, var. pisidoides, &c, in 

 exchange for shells and lepidoptera. — T. W. Paterson, 59 Hazel- 

 bank Terrace, Edinburgh. 



Offered, L. C, 8th ed. : — 40, 45, 761:, 78, 95, 98, 121, 165^, 

 187, 191, 213, 254, 291* 306, 311, 335, 336, 364, 403, 494, ss7, 

 585, 656, 701, 713, 754, 776, 830, 898, 957, 935, 1007, 1202, 1217, 

 1262, 1385, 1468, 1491, 1519, 1537, 1545, 1547, 1571, 1592, 1595, 

 1630, 1636, 1694. Many desiderata in phanerogams, mosses, 

 and liverworts. — Miss E. Armitage, Dadnor, Ross. 



A number of scientific and other books for exchange ; list 

 sent. — B., 66 Gloucester Crescent, Regent's Park, N.W. 



Jurassic fossils, with a few flints, offered for literature on 

 the oolites, or vols. 1 to 5 of the " Entomologist," bound or 

 unbound. — J. A. H., 38 Oak Road, Scarborough. 



Offered, Sp. corneum, vars. JIavescens and minor, Sp. 

 lacustre, var. Ryckholtii, Pis. fontinalis, var. ftdchella, PL 

 nitidus, Z. excavatits, &c. Wanted, H. obvoluta, CI. bipli- 

 cata, CI. rolyphii, H. fusca, H. aculeala, Z. radiatulus, 

 Slice, pfeifferi. — P. R. Shaw, 48 Bidston Road, Birkenhead. 



Wanted, "Band of Mercy," "Animal World," or any 

 illustrated publications on natural history, for micro mounts or 

 foreign material. — M., Ferndale, Brondesbury Road, N.W. 



L. C, 8th ed. : 4, 6, 185, 199, 221, 288, 291, 340, 372, 373, 

 380, 395, 396, 403, 552, 590, 596, 611, 634, 635, 647, b63, 667, 

 688, 707, 756, 785, 791, 805, 901, 909, 933, 1024, 1029, 1030, 1086, 

 1089, 1128, 1255, 1354, 1408, 1461, 1642 and 1791, in exchange 

 for good specimens of other British plants. — G. Goode, 3 Teni- 

 son Road, Cambridge. 



Duplicates. — Unio pictorum, Neritina fluviatilis, By- 

 thinia Leachii, Valvata piscinalis, V. cristata, Planorbis 

 nitidus, P. carinatus, P. corneus, P. contortus, Physa hyp- 

 norum, P. fontinalis, Limnea glutinosa, L. stagnalis, An- 

 cylus lacustris, Succinea putris, S. elegans, Helix cantiana, 

 H. virgata, H. ericetorum, Clausilia rugosa, Hydrobia ulva, 

 H. ventrosa, &c. Desiderata, other shells or natural history 

 specimens. — J. W. Boult, 17 Finsbury Grove, Fountain Road, 

 Hull. 



I notice in September's number of Science-Gossip, that on 

 the Murray Firth side the town of Cromarty there are good 

 specimens of fossil fishes in the limestone nodules. If any one 

 will send me a small box of them, say i cwt., labelled "rough 

 stones for geological purposes," they will come at a mineral 

 rate. I shall be pleased to send polished Devonian specimens 

 or other fossils in return. — A. J. R. Sclater, M.C.S., 23 Bank 

 Street, Teignmouth, S. Devon. 



Offered, Carpenter's "Animal Physiology," and Gosse's 

 "Introduction to Zoology," vol. i. Wanted, anatomical works, 

 specimens for dissection, or microscopical cabinet or apparatus. 

 — W. P. Pycraft, Aylestone Road, Leicester. 



Wanted, good cabinet specimens of azurite, bismuth, 

 bronzite, cobalt, hematite, tin ore, magnetic iron ore, obsidian, 

 native copper. Offered, hornblende, jasper, mica, amphibole, 

 jet, crocidolite, blende, rock crystal, &c. — Chas. Wardingley, 

 Blackwood Crescent, Edinburgh. 



H. lamellata, P. ringens, An. lacustris, and numerous 

 other shells and fossils, offered for fossils and Continental and 

 foreign Shells. — John Hawell, M.A., Ingleby-Greenhow 

 Vicarage, Northallerton. 



Gentleman making a collection of curious forms of flints 

 and other varieties of silica, would be glad to receive donations 

 of same, or offers other mineralogical specimens in exchange. 

 —J. A. Ellis, 1 Pomona Place, Fulham, S.W. 



Offered, eggs of chough in pairs, clutches of s. hawk, 

 kestrel, dipper, stonechat, grasshopper, warbler, goldcrest, 

 nuthatch, cieeper, grey wagtail, twite, corn bunting, bullfinch, 

 oyster-catcher, landrail, m. swan, cormorant, kittiwake, herring 

 gull, lesser b. b. gull ; nests with smaller eggs. Eggs of 

 ringed and com. guillemots, razor-bill, puffin, sooty tern, 

 m. shearwater, storm petrel. Wanted, clutches only. — R. J. 

 Ussher, Cappagh, Lismore. 



Dredgings in great variety, and from various depths, con- 

 taining foram. shells, will be given in exchange for other 

 dredgings containings molluscan shells. — Mr. Marshall, Seven- 

 oaks, Torquay. 



Could any reader supply me with Science-Gossip for 1881 

 (bound, or in parts) ? I will give a liberal exchange in good 

 carboniferous fossils, or fossils from other formations. — P. J. 

 Roberts, 4 Shepherd Street, Bacup. 



Wanted, a secondhand microscope (Watson's Histological 

 preferred), must be in good working order. Offered, 300 species 

 of land, freshwater, and marine shells, European and foreign, 

 or a lot of Maltese miocene fossils, or state requirements. — 

 Jos. S. Galizia, Valetta, Malta. 



Offered, good microscopic slides in exchange for clean 

 gatherings of volvox. — S. L., c.o. W. West, 15 Horton Lane, 

 Bradford. 



Wanted, fossils, foreign shells, minerals, any kind, in ex- 

 change for gold ore, several vaiieties from Brazil. — W. J. 

 Weston, jun., Beckley, Sussex. 



I require sp. of British shells, land, freshwater and marine, 

 and in exchange I will forward to your address a box containing 

 sp. of N.Z. shells, land, freshwater and marine. Of N.Z. 

 shells I have about 43 distinct species of land shells, about 

 14 freshwater, and about 260 marine. I have also a large 

 number of South Sea Is. and Australian shells in duplicate. I 

 am opening my private collections as a local museum, and 

 should be glad of anything else of interest in fossils, minerals, 

 geological sp., for which I will do my best to repay you by 

 N.Z. exchanges. — James H. Bettany, Broadway, Marton, 

 New Zealand. 



Wanted, good foreign stamps, in small or large lots, at once. 

 Will give in exchange minerals, fossils, natural history speci- 

 mens, books, &c. — F. Cartwright, 20 Eldon Street, C.-on-M., 

 Manchester. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"Principia; or the Three Octaves of Creation," by Rev. 

 Alfred Kennion, M. A., (London : Elliot Stock). — " Records of 

 the Australian Museum, vol. L, No. 2.," by E. P. Ramsay. — 

 " Principles of Mechanism as applied to the Solar System," 

 " Sap : Does it Rise from the Roots ? " by J. A. Reeves, 

 (London: Geo. Kenning). — " On Local Scientific Investigation 

 in Connection with Committees of the British Association," by 

 John Hopkinson. — " An Analysis of Some of the Ocular 

 Symptoms Observed in So-Called General Paresis," by C. A. 

 Oliver, M.D. — "The Natural Food of Man," by Emmet 

 Densmore M.D. (London: Pewtress & Co.). — "Journal of 

 Royal Microscopical Society." — "Le Diatomiste." — "The 

 South-Eastern Naturalist." — " Magazine and Book Review." 

 — American Microscopical Journal." — "American Naturalist." 

 "Canadian Entomologist." — "Insect Life." — "The Natural- 

 ist." — "The Botanical Gazette." — "The Gentleman's Maga- 

 zine." — "The Midland Naturalist." — "Feuille des Jeunes 

 Naturalistes." — "The Microscope," &c, &c. 



Communications received up to the iith ult. from ; 

 W. G. K.— J. H. H.— R. A. B.— J. J. N.— J. W.— G. W. N.— 

 J. F— H. P. M.— E. S. G.— W. B.— G. M. P.— G. S. P.— 

 J. A. R.— W. W.— W. J. H.— C. S.— H. C— R. S.— G. H. B. 

 — H. A. F.— W. D. R.— E. E.— P. F. T.— D. W. B.— 

 W. H. W.— M. R. Y.— T. W. R.— F. S.— A. H.— C. P.— 

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

 J. P. N— S. A. B.— J. H.— T. W. P.— R. J. U.— A. J. R. S. 

 — E. E. T.— E. A.— W. O. W.— J. W. B.— C. D. H.— G. G.— 

 C. W.— R. B. P.— W. P. P.— J. A. E.— A. C. S.— P. F. T.— 

 J. M. M.— F. T. S.— J. L.— T. D. A. C— F. C— F. T. S.— 

 H. F.— A. M.— N. F. D— J. S. G— J. T. M.— P. J. R.— 

 T. H. B.— A. H.— J. I. N.— O. C— T. J. S.— W. J. W.— 

 A. G. H. I.— W. W.— G. C. M.— M. E. P.— E. B.— A. M.— 

 E. P.— J. P. N.— J. W. W.— &c, &c. 1 



