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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Offered post-tertiary and raised beach fossils. Wanted 

 recent British land, freshwater and marine shells. Lists ex- 

 changed.— J. Smith, Kilwinning, Ayrshire. 



Wanted, works on biology, or Stamton s Manual ; will 

 give in exchange any of following: Scienxe-Gossip, 1880 

 to 1883. four >ears, "Kamiliar Wild Birds," sixteen parts, 

 Buffon's "Natural History," Part i., original edition, and 

 many others.— Wm. P. Ellis, Enfield Chase, West Enfield. 



Mother-o'-Pearl shells from Tahiti, encrusted with lovely 

 forms of polyzoa, S:c., also sweepings from warehouse where 

 the shells have been in stock. Wanted mosses, zoophytes, 

 algae, insects, or anything of interest. Write first to B. B. 

 Scott, 18 Chiswell Street, Needham Road, Liverpool. 



I AM very anxious to obtain correspondents in all parts of the 

 world for exchange of plants, shells, insects, &c.— B. B. Scott, 

 18 Chiswell Street, Needham Road, Liverpool, England. 



Will send well-mounted transverse section of kidney for 

 well-mounted object. Address, E. H., 18 Salisbury Road, 

 Dalston, London. _ • , ,j 



Wanted, objectives, micro-appliances, material, slides, and 

 books on micro-subjects, in exchange for other slides (anatomi- 

 cal, pathological, botanical, micro-fungi, fern sori, diatoms, 

 odontophores, parasites, foraminifera, polycistinae, &c.). No 

 cards. Please state wants and send lists to F. L. Carter, 

 College of Medicine, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Wanted, correspondents at home and abroad to exchange 

 micro material, shells, &c.— F. L. Carter, College of Medicine, 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Wanted, the following micro-fungi : CEcidium tragopogonis, 

 (E. leiicospermiim, CE. quadrifidinit, CE. euphorbias, (E. ur- 

 ticir, and other species for mounting, for cash or exchange. — 

 George Ward, 18 Nursling Street, Leicester. 



Will give " Imperial Lexicon," 2 vols., half calf, and " Un- 

 seen Universe," for good platyscopic lens: or these supple- 

 mented with other books or cash for good a objective. — Daniel 

 Mayor, 7 Chaddock Street, Pieston, Lancashire. 



First seventy-seven numbers of " Knowledge," ninety birds' 

 eggs, not named, and small quantity foraminiferous sponge 

 sand ; exchange for well-mounted diatoms ; offers requested. — 

 Henderson, 45 Eglinton Street, Glasgow. 



Wanted, Science-Gossip, vols.i. to xiv., both inclusive, 

 also " Nature," vols. i. to viii., both inclusive. State conditions, 

 &c._W. E. Martin, C.E., The Bungalows, Birchington, Kent. 



A Quekett's dissecting microscope to be exchanged for 

 a Rutherford, Stirling, Daucer, or Cathcart microtome, the 

 latter preferred. The Q. D. M. is similar to that described and 

 figured in "Dr. Carpenter on the Microscope" but with glass 

 table top and packs all requisites in stand, three object glasses, 

 reflector, and condenser complete. — F. Derry, Upper Hockley 

 Street, Birmingham. 



Wanted, li inch objective (Baker's combination would do). 

 State particulars. — W. Hollebon, Newark House, Langney 

 Road, Eastborne. 



For exchange, eleven parts of Science-Gossip for 1882, eight 

 parts of " Entomologist," 1882, for objects of natural history. — 

 Thomas Mackie, 41 McNeil Street, Glasgow, S.S. 



J. W. will be glad to forward a few Podosoma (Lepidocyrtiis 

 ciirvicollis) to microscopists wishing to study scales. — Woburn 

 House, Woburn Hill Green Lane, Liverpool. 



Wanted, specimens of recent and fossil shells, birds' eggs, 

 freshly taken or carefully preserved specimens of Crustacea. 

 Also works (with plates) on above and British mosses. Offered, 

 recent shells, Venus galliua, with varieties alba and gibba, 

 Pholas Candida, Lucinopsis undaia, Tellinn tenuis, T. fabula, 

 Mactia stuliorurn, and variety Solen marginatus, Nassa 

 reticulata, Mytilus pellucida, \Syndos>uya alba, Utricuhis 

 ohtusus. Also Welsh Mosses (unnamed).— C. Jefferys, Lang- 

 hame, Carmarthenshire. 



Austrian wood opal, serpentine, obsidian, lapis lazuli, 

 arsenical ore, mica-schist, &c., to exchange for the following 

 fossils, Oldhamia radiata, U. antiqua, graptolites, Marsupites 

 Aiilleri, Temnechinus excavatus. — Miss Linter, Coloony 

 House, Grosvenor Road, Twickenham. 



Wanted,; specimens of Macrodon hirsonensis (Great Oolite) 

 and Tonnechinus (Crag.). Good exchanges in British shells 

 or fossils. — G. L., 8 Winchester Place, Highgate, London. 



Wanted, well-mounted slides of botanical preparation ; also 

 fruits, seeds, and other objects useful in teaching botany. Can 

 offer in exchange shells, fossils, British plants, and foreign 

 stamps. — H. L. E., Hay-Gordon, & Co., Widnes. 



Coins wanted in exchange for stamps. — F. R. E., 3s Rufford 

 Road, Liverpool. 



For exchange: osprey, peregrine, falcon, kite, black kite, 

 short-eared owl, mottled owl, nightingale, icterine warbler, 

 meadow pipit, tree sparrow, rcd-wingcd starling, hooded crow, 

 rook, magpie, golden-winged woodpecker, douny woodpecker, 

 yellow-billed woodpecker, belted kingfisher, stuck dove, rock 

 dove, red grouse, Virginian culin, Carolina quail, night heron, 

 glossy ibis, Egyptian goose, Canada goose, eider duck, puffin, 

 shag, Arctic tern, sooty tern, common gull, Rich.Trdson's skua, 

 fork-tailed petrel. — Ralph Turnbull, 8 Cemelery Road, Crewe. 



Wanted, slides of Diatomaceie, Dcsniidiacca;, Polypi, Alg,-c, 

 Foraminifera, Polycystina, Spicula, t<:c. Please send lists of 

 duplicates. Other slides and unmounicd micro-material, also 

 Lcpidoptera. — F. A. A. Skuse, 143 Stepney Green, London, E. 



A FEW freshly-dug pupae of.?, tiliir, imagoes oiS. poptdi, 

 B. perla, &c., for exchange. Wanted ova of X. dispar. Lists 

 exchanged. — Geo. Balding, Ruby Street, Wisbech. 



V . pictorum, tumidus, A. nnatiiia, and v. radiata, D. poly- 

 morfha, A. cygnea v. Zcllens'is, P. carinatus, &c., offered 

 for varieties albo-lineata, roseo-tabiata, and castanca of nciiia- 

 ralis or v. olivacca, arejiicola, lilacina of hortensis. — B. 

 Hudson, 15 Waterloo Road, Middlesbrough. 



Microscope (Wolland), five objectives, 8 in. mahogany case, 

 with various appurtenances. What offers ?-L. R.Sutherland, 

 5, Hillsboro' Square, Hillhead, Glasgow. 



Pottia aspe>-ula, Bryutn Tozeri, Tortula rccur^nfolia , 

 Trichostomujn littorale, Fissidcns serrulatiis, Eurhynchium 

 speciosuin. Sphagnum acutifolium, vars. qiiinquefariuin and 

 squarrosulum. Offered to British or American bryologists. — 

 Wm. Curnon, Pembroke Cottage, Newbyn Cliff, Penzance. 



Duplicates. LitnncEa glabra, L. peregra, Planorbis spi- 

 rorbis, P. carinatus, Physa hypnorum, and very fine L. 

 stagnalis and P. corneus. Locality, Strensall Common, near 

 York. Desiderata : very numerous British land, freshwater 

 and marine shells. — W. Hewett, 26 Clarence Street, York. 



Wanted, slides of Acti^wnium septenariutn, Asterionella 

 /ormosa, Mesocena octogona, Heiniaulus antarciicus, Hclio- 

 pclta Leeuwenhoeckii, Cliinacosphenia moniligera, Lagenct 

 vulgaris, var. setnistriaia, Achnanthes longipes, Pinnulnrin. 

 nobilis, P. viridis, P. oblonga, P. radiosa, Gyrosigma quad- 

 ratutn and other diatoms, in exchange for slides of Forami- 

 nifera, parts of insects, &c. — F. A. A. Skuse, 143 Stepney 

 Green, London, E. 



Foraminiferous sand sent to any address (to any amount) 

 on receipt of stamps to cover postage. — F. A. A. Skuse, 143 

 Stepney Green, London, E. 



For microscopical slides or material preferred, the beautiful 

 seeds of Nicotiana Tabacum, mounted or unmounted. — 

 H. F. Jolly, Stow Villa, Bath. 



"Knowledge," vols. i. and ii., clean, perfect and bound, 

 in exchange for a small herbarium collection of British Mosses. 

 — G. F. Nest, Jedburgh, N.B. 



"N,\ture," vols, i.-x., bound, and xii.-xx., clean and per- 

 fect but unbound, for any natural history collections suitable 

 for a boys' museum. — G. F. Nest, Jedburgh, N.B. 



Wanted, "Popular Science Review" for i88r, 1882, and' 

 1883. — Dr. Cunynghame, 6 Walker Street, Edinburgh. 



BOOKS. ETC., RECEIVED. 



"Flowers and Flower- Lore," by the Rev. Hilderic Friend, 

 F.L.S., &c. (with illustrations) 2 vols. London: W. Swan 

 Sonnenschein & Co. — " Proceedings of the Literary and 

 Philosophical Society of Liverpool," vols. 35, 36, and 37, for 

 1880-8T, 1881-82, 1882-83.— " New Commercial Plants and 

 Drugs," by Thos. Christy, F.L.S, &c. London: Christy & 

 Co. — " Facts Around Us." G. C. Lloyd Morgan. London : 

 Edward Stanford. — " Studies in Microscopical Science," edited 

 by A. C. Cole. — "The Methods of Microscopical Research,"' 

 edited by A. C. Cole. — " Popular Microscopical Studies." By 

 A. C. Cole. — " Portfolio of Drawings." No. 10. By Thomas 

 Bolton. — " Petrological Studies." By Messrs. J. E. Ady and 

 H. Hensoldt. — "The Gentleman's ^Iagazine." — " Belgravia." 

 — "The Antiquary." — "Journal of Conchology. " — "The 

 Journal of Microscopy." — " Land and Water.'' — "The Science 

 Monthly." — "Midland Naturalist." — "The Inventor's Re- 

 cord." — "The Naturalist's World." — "Ben Brierley's Jour- 

 nal."— '' Sunlight."-" The Medical Student." (New York.) 

 — "Natural History Notes." — "Science." — "American Natu- 

 ralist." — " Medicu-Legal Journal." (New York.) — " Canadian 

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

 " Popular Science News." — " The Botanical Gazette." — " The 

 Arcadian Scientist." — "The Ornithologist and Oologist." — 

 "The Electrician." — "Revue de Botanique." — "La Feuille 

 des Jeunes Naturalistes." — " Le Monde de la Science." — " Ciel 

 etTerre." — " Cosmos: les Mondes." &c. &c. &c. 



Communications RErEivHD up to i2Th ult. from: — 

 R. E. C— 1!. P.— J. F. R.— W. P. C— G. W. B.— A. H. B.— 

 C. T. H.— T. D. A.-R. W. M.— H. M., jun.— J. G.— E. J. G. 

 — H. M.— E. A. P.-J. S.— J. M. B. T.— Dr. J. F.— F. M. H. 

 — G. S. T.-P. F. L.-A. H. S.-G. H. K.— J. T.— C K.— 

 E. C— C. D., jun.— E. H. R.— J W. W.— E. T. D.— F. K. 

 —A. H. W.— J. C. S.-J. C. M.— A. S.-W. H. B.— A. B.— 

 E. A. S.-J. R. M.— M. E. T.— A. G. O.-S. A. B.-W. H. G. 

 — V.A. L.— E. L.— W. W. C. O'N.— R. K.— E. F. B.— S. T. 

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

 — B. B. S.— W. B. E.— E. H.— A. H. B.— F. L. C.-K. N. K. 

 W. T. C— G. W.— F. O. F.— A. L.— J. I. H.— J. H. B.— 

 J. w.— C. C— J. S.— T. H. M.— C. M. G.— R. B. C— 

 J. E. L.— W. Y.— L. C. M.-O. J. H.— J. D. A.-R. N. M. 

 — M. E. P.— G.L.-H. L. E.-W. F., jun.— D. M.— W. E. W. 

 -K. T.— H. C. B.-J. G. B.— J. A. W.— f. H.— W. E. M.— 

 H.— W. M.— C. F. G.— W. P.— F. D.— W. H— F. H. P.— 

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

 H. H.— W. C— G. D. E.— W. H.-W. J. D.— W. R. T.— 

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

 W.H. C-S. B.— Dr C— V. A. L.— G. F. N.— W. S., &c. 



