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HARD WICKE'S SCIENCE- G OSSJP. 



EXCHANGES. 



Offered, small air-pump, Valentine's knife, Lawson's dis- 

 secting microscope without instruments, for i inch objective, 

 Gosse's works, or good micro mounts. Write first. — H. A. 

 Francis, 12 Aberdeen Terrace, Clifton, Bristol. 



For skin of chameleon and ditto of blue shark, send address 

 to J. Sinel, Davitt Place, Jersey. 



Wanted, some good micro-slides in exchange for Science- 

 Gossip (unbound) for 18S0, 18S1, and 1882 : January to June, 

 1883; May to December, 1879; and April to October, 1878; 

 or any portion of them. — H. Thomson, 22 Brooke Road, Stoke 

 Newington, N. 



Wanted, well-mounted micro slides of mosses, hepaticae, 

 ferns, and grasses. State lowest price, or exchange required. 

 — J. R. Murdoch, 24 Blenheim Place, Leeds. 



Good and well-dried specimens of British plants and grasses. 

 Mosses and grasses wanted. Will give in exchange scientific 

 books or cash. — J. R. Murdoch, 24 Blenheim Place, Leeds. 



Stow's microscope lamp with pine case in first-rate condition. 

 What ofters in micro apparatus ?— Geo. Ward, Wallwood 

 Nursery, Leytonstone, E. 



Helix pisaiia and var. alba. Helix ericetorum, &c. For 

 other land and freshwater or marine shells, &c. — F. W. 

 Adamsdown, Cardiff. 



Offered the following hairs: ourang-outang [Siiiiiasatynis, 

 Borneo) ; chimpanzee (Sierra Leone) ; platypus (New South 

 Wales) ; echidna (under side) ; lemur {Propithecus Iwlojnetas, 

 Madagascar). Desiderata, mounted or unmounted ; animal 

 objects. — H. Thrupp, Murbury, Axminster, Devon. 



Crustacea, echinoderms, moUusca, &c. Also microscopic 

 preparations of the embryo forms of the same — parasites and 

 spiders. Desiderata numerous. — Edward Lovett, 43 Clyde 

 Road, Croydon. 



Wanted, one or two tree frogs. — A. Pittis, Carisbrooke 

 Road, Newport, Isle of Wight. 



Foraminifera (selected) from Scilly Isles, Pothcurno Cove, 

 and Penzance ; quartz sand and very thin sections of potassic 

 ferricyanide, in exchange for well-mounted slides of other 

 foraminifera, soundings, &c., or parasites (the latter preferred). 

 — F. E. Hillman, i Harcourt Road, Wallington, Surrey. 



Collection of plants (about 150), also a few eggs for micro- 

 scopical slides. — C. H. Goodman, Lesnes Heath, Kent. 



Wanted Neritina znridis ; will give N. zebra, N. ■ustillata, 

 Kerita tesselata, Oliva finra, pyg7iicea or reticulata. Also 

 wanted species of Cypra:a and Oliva. — J. Harvey Bloom, 

 Westbury House School, Worthing. 



Wanted tropical land shells ; also fossils from the eocene, 

 miocene, and pliocene from France and Italy. Offered, British 

 marine shells and British land and freshwater shells, also fossils. 

 — Miss F. Hele, Fairlight, Elmgrove Road, Cotham, Bristol. 



DlJPLlCiTES. — Sphcerium cornenm, and var. 7iucleiis, Sp. 

 rivicola, Pisidiuvi amtiicmn, Neritina JJuviatilis, Bythinin 

 tentaculata, B. Leachii, Physa hy/»iorinn, P. fontitialis, and 

 Lintnaa glabra. Desiderata : British land and freshwater shells, 

 especially varieties, also British marine shells. — Robert B. Cook, 

 44 St. John Street, Lord Mayor's Walk, York. 



Six well-mounted slides for good stage micrometer, or ex- 

 change for other slides. Lists to T. Turnell, 19 Park Terrace, 

 Regent's Park. N.W. 



Rare British birds' eggs offered for a well-mounted specimen 

 of stormy petrel ; also for various British land and freshwater 

 shells, and fossils — ammonites, belemnites, fruits, and shark's 

 teeth, specially wanted.— R. Standen, Goosnargh, Preston, 

 Lancashire. 



Wanted, back volumes of "Zoologist," also of "Ibis."— 

 Rev. H. A. Macpherson, 3 St. James's Road, Carlisle. 



Very superior anatomical and pathological microscopic slides 

 in exchange for good magic lantern slides or offers. — Henry 

 Vial, Crediton, Devon. 



Exotic lepidoptera. Numerous fresh duplicates, particularly 

 in Papilio, Catagramma, Cybdelis, and Romalaeosoma ; great 

 atlas moths, bred ; wings of all the most brilliant species for 

 microscopic purposes. — J. C. Hudson, Railway Terrace, Cross 

 Lane, near Manchester. 



For exchange, 13 Nos. of "Zoologist," 21 Nos. of "Journal 

 of the Linnean Society — Botany;" 24 Nos. of "Journal of 

 the Linnean Society — Zoology." Wanted, botanical slides and 

 Davis's " Practical Microscopy." — W. Rose, Abergavenny. 



"The Day after Death," " The World before the Deluge," 

 "Primitive Man," by Louis Figuicr, "Punch" (unbound), 

 Nos. 13 to 22 inclusive: odd numbers of "Popular Science 

 Review," containing excellent plates. Wanted, foreign marine, 

 land and freshwater shells, British fossils, mammalian skulls. — 

 Miss Lintcr, Arragon Close, Twickenham. 



Offered, during the forthcoming season, fresh or dried, 

 Lond. Cat., 7th edit. — 2, 45, 115*, 121, 130, 147, 164, 218, 275, 

 366, 367, 406, 453, 457, 495, 519, 521, 534, 538, 539, 631, 772, 

 829, 859, 906, 924, 1040, 1124, 1275, 1330, 1349, 1361, 1401, 1412, 

 1422, 1438, 1447, 1458, 1473, 1501, 1506. 1659, 1665, with many 

 others. Exchange by special arrangement. — H. Ibbotson 

 2 Grape Lane, York. 



A LARGE number of bi-pendulograph writings, ratios of the 

 musical system, and various others, in exchange for other 

 drawing or objects of interest chiefly microscopic. — J. J. 

 Andrew, 2 Belgravia, Belfast, Ireland. 



Wanted, photographic apparatus in exchange for micro- 

 scopic slides. — S. Wells, Gladstone Terrace, Goole. 



Will send four specimens of living budding Hydra viridis 

 on the receipt of a good mounted object (physiological or 

 botanical preferred, or for nine stamps. Wanted, Balfour's, 

 and Balfour & Foster's " Embryology," and Schafer's " Prac- 

 tical Histology."— T. .W. Lockwood, Lobley Street, Heck- 

 mondwike, Yorkshire. 



A few slides 'of Pleurosigma atteiiuatwn in exchange for 

 .slides of other diatoms or micro-material. Also a number of 

 slides of spicules, diatoms, and sections and a few tubes of 

 cleaned diatoms. Send for list, sending list at same time.^ 

 J. J. Andrew, 2 Belgravia, Belfast, Ireland. 



Will send well-mounted slide of (dry or in balsam) diatoms, 

 Gojnphonctna geittiiiatitm, in exchange for any interesting 

 or instructive slide.— H. F. Jollys, Stow Villa, Bath. 



Shells for exchange: L. glutinosa, A. acicula, H. Car- 

 tiisiana, Vnio tumidus ; Assiminea Erayana, Tellinafabula, 

 T. Balthica, is^c. Wanted, British or foreign land and fresh- 

 water species or British maiiLf. — S. C. Cockerell, Glen Druid, 

 Chislehurst, Kent. 



Shells for exchange: land and freshwater. Helix netnoralis, 

 var. Hybrida, &c., H. arbiistorwn, H. virgata, H. caprata, 

 &'c. : marine — Pecten opercularis, Cyprcus EurofitEus, &'c. 

 Wants very numerous. — Charles Moxley, Beaumont Park 

 Museum, Huddersfield. 



Duplicates: 100 species of West American marine shells 

 (named), and about the same number of North American land 

 and freshwater shells. Desiderata : British land, freshwater, 

 and marine shells (recent or fossil), or back numbers of the 

 British natural history journals. Send lists to — Z., Box 209, 

 Post Office, Victoria, British Columbia. 



Duplicates; Litnna'a stagnalis and Planorbis corneus 

 (very fine) ; Limncea glabra and L. Peregra, and var. Fragilis 

 of L. stagnalis\ Physa kypnornjn, Planorbis spirorbis, from 

 Strensall Common, near York, which is about to be drained for 

 Government purposes. Desiderata: very numerous. — W. 

 Hewett, 26 Clarence Street, York. 



Eocene and a few upper cretaceous fossils. Will exchange 

 for lower secondary and primary fossils. — F. C. Phillips, 34 

 Carlton Road, Fitzhughs, Southampton. 



Wanted to exchange a collection of marbles and of fossils 

 (all formations) for scientific book, micro-slides, or offers.— 

 Dr. Thresh, Buxton, Derbyshire. 



"My Schools and Schoolmasters," by Hugh Miller; "The 

 Beauties of Swift," published 1782 (clean copies) ; Culpeper's 

 " British Herbal," 120 plates, in exchange for a standard illus- 

 trated work on the British land, marine and freshwater shells. 

 —Frederic Corkett, High Street, Winslow, Bucks. 



BOOKS, ETC.. RECEIVED 



"The Seven Sagas of Pre-historic Man," by J. H. Stoddart. 

 London : Chatto & Windus. — " Flowers and Flower Lore," by 

 the Rev. Hilderic Friend. London : W. S. Sonnenschein & Co. 

 —"The Watch and Clockmaker's Handbook," by F. J. Britten. 

 London: W. Kent & Co. — "Universal Attraction: Its Rela- 

 tion to the Chemical Elements," by W. H. Sharp. Edinburgh: 



E. & S. Livingstone. — "Nuisery Hints," by N. E. Davies. 

 London: Chatto & Windus. — " Atlas of the Tertiary History of 

 the Great Canon District," by Capt. Dutton. — "Second Annual 

 Report of the United States Geological Survey,_i88i." — "Geo- 

 logical and Geographical Survey of the Territories of Wyoming 

 and Idaho," Parts I, and II., by Dr. Hayden. — "Tertiary His- 

 tory of the Great Caiion District," by Capt. Dutton ; Washing- 

 ton : Government Printing Office — " Studies in Microscopical 

 Science," edited by A. C. Cole.— " The Methods of Micro- 

 scopical Research,'' edited by A. C. Cole. — " Popular Micro- 

 scopical Studies." By A. C. Cole. — " Petrological Studies." By 

 Messrs. J. E. Ady and H. Hensoldt. — " The Gentleman's Maga- 

 zine." — "Belgravia." — "Journal of Conchology." — "The 

 Journal of Microscopy." — "The Science Monthly." — " Midland 

 Naturalist." — "The Inventor's Record." — "The Naturalist's 

 World." — "Ben Brierley's Journal." — " Sunlight." — " The 

 Medical Student." (New York.)— " Natural History Notes." 

 — " Science." — " American Naturalist." — ' ' Medico - Legal 

 Journal." (New York.) — "Canadian Naturalist." — "American 

 Monthly Microscopical Journal."' — " Popular Science News." — 

 "The Botanical Gazette." — "The Ornithologist and Oologist." 

 — "The Electrician." — " Horological Journal." — "Revue de 

 Botanique." — "La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." — " Le 

 Monde de la Science." — " Ciel et Terre."—" Cosmos: les 

 Mondes." &c. &c. 



Communications received up to iith ult. from :— 



F. K.— C. A. B.— T. N. H. S.— B. B. S.— W. M.— E. H. R.— 

 J. H. B.— H. C. C— R. H. T.— E. J. E.— D. B.— W. D. R.— 

 J. J. M.— C. J.— W. H. R.— L. L. B.— H. B. R.— F. J. F.— 

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

 A. P.-E. L.— A. W. O.— H. A. F.— F. W. A.— G. W.— 

 C. F. G.— W. J. N.— J. R. M.— F. C— C. B. M.— H. T.— 

 J. S.— J. T- A.-F. H.-W. H. P.— H. I.— J. E. L.— T. W. L. 

 — W. R.— W. C— J. C. H.— R. S.-H. v.— H. A. M.— W. R. 

 — E. H. R.— H. A. S — J. H. B.— .\. J. D.-H. F. J.— E. T.— 

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

 — G. W. T.— B. S. D.— W. S.— W. G. H. T.-R. S. H.— W. S- 

 —A. S. E.-R. B. C— M. H.-T. T.-W. G., &c. 



