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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



C. Stickland.— Dr. M. C. Cooke's " Handbook of British 

 Fungi," 2 vols., published by Macmillan, contains a full de- 

 scription of all known species, and also their classification. 



R. Todd (Wigan). — A capital little book has just been pub- 

 lished, price IS. (Thomas Laurie, 31 Paternoster Row) which 

 would meetyourrequirements — " Chemical Analysis for Schools 

 and Science Classes," by A. H. Scott-White, B.Sc, &c. 



J. F. M. — It is intended to publish "Our Common British 

 Fossils, and Where to Find Them" early in 1884. Many thanks. 



"OuiDA." — We fear many of our novelists are better ac- 

 quainted with the names of our great scientists than their 

 discoveries — hence the confusion. 



R. A. BiLHALD.— The micro-fungus on the leaf of Sowthistle 

 (SoHChus arvensis) is the Colcosporiwn sonchi-arvcnsis. 



Robert F. — Townsend's admirable " Flora of Hampshire," 

 recently issued, would supply you with all the information you 

 seek. 



Fred Lee. — Your specimens are (i) the Sea Fir Coralline 

 {Sertularia ahietina) ; (2) Sickle Coralline {Nydral/i/m/iaui 

 falcata) ; (3) Bottle-brush Coralline (T/t/tiari'a t/ieria); (4) the 

 Sea-Mat [F lustra foliacea], a polyzoan : (5) on edge of sea- 

 weed, Laoinedea dichotoma. See Taylor's "Half Hours at 

 Sea Side," price j,s., chapter on ' Corallines.' 



J. P. (Exeter). — The polished specimen contains a fossil (very 

 common in the Devonian Limestone, of the neighbourhood of 

 Torquay) formerly set down as a coral, but now generally 

 regarded as a Calcareous sponge, Stromatcpoya concentrica. 



K. A. D. (Redditch). — Your leaves are the nurseryman's 

 variety, or a laciniated form of the Maple. 



EXCHANGES. 



WELL-mounted objects for leaves of Dj-osera roiicndifolia 

 (sundew), also spicules or infusorial earths, quantity preferred. 

 — R. M., 59 Hind St., Poplar, London, E. 



Wanted, good section cutter, also back vols, of Sciexce- 

 GossiP, in exchange for Valentine's knife, and first-class micro 

 slides. — C. S. Bouttell, 3 Chestnut Villas, Forest Gate, 

 London. 



Offered, skins of magpie, rook, starling, robin, greenfinch, 

 sky-lark, blue tit, wren, swallow, hedge sparrow, &c., for eggs 

 of hawk, tits, seacoast birds, &c. — Albert Newton, 24 Rycroft 

 Place, Ashton-on-Lyne. 



Offered, post-tertiary and raised beach shells, Lucinia 

 horealis, Cardium NorvegicJim, Astarte coniprcssa. Tapes 

 virginens, Mya iriinca/a, Tectura virginca, Punctiirella 

 Noachina, Trochus tuinidus, Trophon clathratus, Venus 

 fasciata, ii^c. Wanted species of the British genera, Defrancia, 

 Cyliclina, Scaphander, Modiolaria, Fusus, Odostomia, Isocar- 

 dia. Pandora, Poromya, Nesera, Thracia, Pinna. — J. Smith, 

 Kilwincraig, Ayrshire. 



Wanted, succinea from all parts of England, Scotland, and 

 Ireland. Will give in exchange land and freshwater shells, 

 either British or European. — J. Fitzgerald, 10 West Terrace, 

 Folkestone. 



WELL-mounted slides of sections of TricJiomane radicans, 

 Hy»ienophyllu}n detuissiim, with other British ferns ; also slides 

 of section hop bine, mostly double stained, for other well- 

 mounted slides, parasites preferred. — A Norris, Church Road, 

 Urmston. 



Utiio tuinidus, U. pictortim, A. anatina, A. anaiina, var. 

 ventricosa, from Grand Junction Canal, either alive or cleaned 

 out shells. Many common shells wanted, especially marine. 

 Mrs. S., 21 Loudon Road, Brentford, Middlesex. 



A si'Lendid collection of Swiss, Pyrenean, and Mediterranean 

 plants, in the most perfect condition as to dying, &c., and all 

 correctly named. Price dd. each specimen. Address Dr. B., 

 care of Editor of Science-Gossip. 



FoKAMiNiFERous sand from the Levant, and from West 

 Indies ; wanted in exchange other micro-material, and well- 

 mounted slides.— J. L. Smithett, 45 Highbury Hill, London, N. 

 FoKAMiNiFEROus sand from Mediterranean Sea (being the 

 washings of sponge), will be forwarded to any reader sending 

 me a stamped and directed envelope for same. — F. A. A. Skuse, 

 143 Stepney Green, E. 



i WANT to correspond with conchologists (home or abroad) 

 with the view of exchanging marine shells, of whi-h I have a 

 large number of species.— C. Jefferys, Langharne, Carmarthen- 

 shire. 



Science-Gossip for 1881-3, what offers ? books or otherwise. 

 — E. H. Smith, 5 Hurley Road, Lower Kcnnington Lane, 

 London, S.l'". 



FonAMiNiFERA, selected and well mounted in exchange for 

 foraminiferous material, parasites, &c. — A. C. Tipple, 35 

 Alexander Road, Upper HoUoway, N. 



Wanted, Stylopa;, various species. Well-prepared slides of 

 rare Acari in exchange. — H. E. Freeman, 60 Plimsoll Road, 

 Finsbury Park, N. 



One dozen good micro slides in exchange for others. Lists 

 exchanged. Unaccepted offer? not answered. — F. R. Rowley, 

 31 St. Stephen's Road, Highfields, Leicester. 



Wanted, bookson bees, old or modern. Will exchange 

 books of general literature, natural history and sporting, or 

 will purchase them.— W. T. Cooper, 16 Earl's Court Koad, 

 Kensington, W, 



What offers for vol. xvi. iSSo Science-Gossip ? — W. E. 

 Collinge, 68 Springfield Place, Leeds. 



Duplicates. Liiiitio'a stagnalis and P. corneals, very fine ; 

 P.^ complaiiatus, P. Spirorbis, P. carinatus, Fhysa Hyp- 

 noruin, L. palitstris, L. peregra, and Sphcerium corneuin. 

 Desiderata. — W. Hewett, 26 Clarence Street, York. 



Fossils from Greensand and a few Lias to exchange for 

 other fossils, books on scientific subjects, or fossil cabinet. — 

 J. A. Floyd, 4 Springfield Villas, Bury-St. -Edmunds. 



Filmy ferns of New Zealand for the filmy ferns of other 

 countries. — T. Rogers, 27 Oldham Road, Manchester. 



W.A.NTED, a thoroughly good two-inch objective. Will give 

 good one-inch in exchange. Also wanted Kent's Infusoria for 

 cash. — E. B. L. Erayley, 13 Burlington Road, Clifton, Bristol. 



Rare British plants sent in exchange for local and common 

 British moths — one large exchange preferred. — Wm. R. Hay- 

 ward, Wingfield House, Birdhurst Road, Croydon. 



Living specimens of freshwater shells suitable for aquariums, 

 L. stagnalis and Planorbis corncus. Would be glad for 

 ofl'ers of British birds' eggs, side blown, or land and freshwater 

 shells.— Robert Barker, n Fowend Street, Groves, York. 



Wanted, Bell's stalk-eyed, Spence Bates' sessile-eyed Crus- 

 tacea, and Baird's Entomostraca. A valuable assortment of 

 Crustacea, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Fishes, Rock specimens 

 or embryological microscopic preparations offered in exchange. 

 — Edward Lovett, 43 Clyde Road, Addiscombe, Croydon. 



Wanted, British marine algae, mosses and lichens, mo'inled. 

 Will give land and freshwater shells.— C. T. Musson, i Clinton 

 Terrace, Derby Road, Nottingham. 



Wanted, micro material for first class mounted specimen of 

 diatom insects, anatomical, pathological, and other specimens. 

 — J. Noakes, Clairville, Archway Road, Upper Holloway, N. 



Tobacco, leaf well mounted, in exchange for other slide of 

 interest. — E. C. Stedman, 115 Stepney Green, London, E. 



For sand from Mediterannean Sea containing minute sheU 

 please send stamped envelope to E. C. Stedman, 115 Stepney 

 Green, London, E. 



What offers in micro aparatus for Carpenter's "Microscope " 

 and " ^Tanual of Physiology," both as good as new?— G. E. 

 Ward, Wallwood Nursery, Leytonstone. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED.^ 



"The Pedigrees of Plants." By Grant Allen. London; 

 Longmans & Co. 



" Injurious, &c.. Insects of New York." Albanj', Weed 

 & Co. , 



"The New Principia." By Newton Crosland. London .- 

 Trubner & Co. 



"The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy." By James Macfad- 

 zean. Edinburgh : Menzies & Co. 



"Solar Physics." By A. H. Swinton. Londou : W. H. 

 Allen & Co. 



"Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society." December. 



" Perennial Plants." (Parts.) ', 



"Studies in Microscopical Science," edited by A. C. Cole. 



" The Methods of Microscopical Research," edited by A. 

 C. Cole. 



" Journal of Conchology." 



" Land and Water." 



"The Science Monthly." 



" Midland Naturalist." 



"The Inventor's Record." 



"The Truth Seeker." 



"Ben Brierley's Journal." 



"Cricket." 



" The Medical Student." (New York.) 



" Natural History Notes." 



" Science." S 



" American Naturalist." 



"The Microscope." 



"Canadian Naturalist." 



"American Monthly Microscopical Journal." 



" Popular Science News." 



"The Botanical Gazette." 



" Revue de Botaiiique." 



" La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." 



" Le Monde de la Science." 



" Ciel et Terre." 



" Cosmos : les Mondes." 

 &c. &c. &c. 



Communications rechivkd up to ioth ult. from : — 

 H. G. G.— C. H. R.— J. F. R.— E. T. D.— J. G.— A. H. B.— 

 G. B.— W. L. B.— J. D.— H. W. K.— S. A. B.— Dr. P. Q. K. 

 — W. T. H.— W. F. H.— W. L. W.— C. R— A. M. P.— A. H. 

 — C. H. W.— H. C. W.— C. E. F.— W. H. S.— E. T. B.— 

 L. M.— B. H.— H. G. S.— J. W.— A. H. W.— J. E. A.— 

 Dr. A. C. S.— H. W.— R. M.— Dr. J. F.— W. B. G.-A. N.— 

 C. S. B.— J. S.— E. L.— T. W. B.— J. J. B.— A. H. B.— 

 J. F. G.— A. N.-«-J. R. D.— J. F. B.— B. H.— A. O.-H. J. G. 

 — T. M. R.— E. L.— E. B. L. B.— W. M.— E. H.— W. R. H. 

 — R. B.— C. S.— W. H.-E. J. G.-W. M. C. P. N.— J. S. K. 

 — E. C S.— J. W.— C. T. M. &c. 



