I20 



HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP, 



For exchange, large solar microscope in mahogany case. 

 fieological collection and microscopic slides preferred. — A. E. 

 Prflmer, Tettenhall Wood, Wolverhampton. 



Microscopic slides of wood sections, animal sections of hairs 

 for exchange for other slides. — J. E. Nowers, 69 Barnstone 

 Road, Burton-on-Trent. 



"Northern Microscoi'IST," first 24 numbers in exchange 

 fir Bolton's 10 parts of Portfolio of drawings. — Robert 

 McLaughlin, Rookery, Hathern, Leicestershire. 



Vale.ntine's section knife in perfect condition, also pocket 

 microscope, for exchange ; desideratum polariscope. — John R. 

 Marten, 2 Lower Seymour Street, Portman Square, W. 



I WILL give genuine Chinese coins in exchange for plants 

 from the Holy Land, Europe, or the East, or for rare English 

 fossils. — Rev. Hilderic Friend, F.L.S., Brackley. 



Wanted, Mr. Cameron's papers on " Gaelic Names of 

 Plants," published in the " Scottish Naturalist" for 1881. Will 

 give copy of "Devonshire Plant Names," Chinese coins, or 

 cash. — Rev. H. Friend, F.L.S., Brackley. 



Portions of Roman urns, Samian ware and early English 

 pottery, also palseolithic and neolithic flakes (all from London 

 and suburban district) in exchange for ancient stone imple- 

 ments and flakes from other district or palaeo7oic or earlier 

 mesozoic fossils. — G. F. L., 49 Beech Street, E.G. 



Offered, old numbers of Science-Gossip, years 1880 and 

 1881. Also for exchange, shells (post-tertiary), from the raised 

 beach Isle of Portland, and fossils from the chalk marl, Portland 

 stone, Kimeridge clay, coral ray, Oxford clay, cornbrash, great 



00 ite, fuller's earth, inferior oolite, lias and rhsetic formations. 

 — F. Sumner, 136 Walter Street, Oxford. 



J. \V. will be glad to forward a few Lepidocyrtiis curvicoUis 

 to microscopists wishing to study scales. — Woburn House, 

 Woburn Hill, Green Lane, Liverpool. 



Marine diatoms from Pensacola, Gulf of Mexico, well 

 mounted, for crustaceans or minute marine forms in fluid. — A. W. 

 Griffin, Saville Row, Bath. 



For slide o{ Rhizsolettia S/ir7il>soh'! aend one o{ AulacoUis 

 var. Petersii, or any well-cleaned slide of diatoms from guanoes. 

 —A. W. Griffin, Saville Row, Bath. 



Science-Gossip for 1872, bound, 1873 to 1879, inclusive, and 

 1883, unbound, for exchange. Wanted microscopic slides 

 or material. — Frank Adams, High Street, Stoke-upon-Trent. 



Ansted's "Physical Geography," Milner's "Gallery of 

 Geography," " Home Naturalist," "Field Naturalists' Hand- 

 book," and well-mounted slides. Wanted, Davis's " Practical 

 Microscopy," Rimmer's "Land and Freshwater Shells," polari- 

 scope and micro apparatus. — J. C. Blackshaw, 4 Ranelagh 

 Road, Wolverhampton. 



Foraminifera from the coast of Galway, Ireland, and gold 

 sand with gem pebbles from the Ovens Diggings, Australia, 

 mounted ; for other good mounts, insect preparations preferred ; 

 objects of animal physiology or diatoms not acceptable. — C. 

 Croydon, Pato Point, Torpoint, Cornwall. 



A FEW portions of the backbone of a very large whale, which 



1 will exchange for British birds' eggs, side blown, or other 

 natural history objects.— A. Foster, Rodger Street, Anstruther. 



Wanted, Rimmer's " Land and Freshwater Shells," Rye's 

 "Beetles," and Rossiter's " Scientific Dictionary ;" or exchange. 

 — Frank Tufnall, Amity Street, Reading. 



Wanted, rare British marine shells, also land and fresh- 

 water — especially varieties of //. aspersa. Offered good ex- 

 change in other shells. — C. Jefferys, Hill House, Langharne, 

 Carmarthenshire. 



Palate of Limpet [Patella vulgata) unmounted, any quan- 

 tity. What offers? Unmounted objects not required. — C. 

 Jefferys, Hill House, Langharne, Carmarthenshire. 



Beautiful specimen ot common scoter [Qideinia nigra] in 

 case, by professional stuffier. What offers? — C. Jefferys, Hill 

 House, Langharne, Carmarthenshire. 



"Sketches of Bird Life," by Harting, in exchange for 

 birds' eggs, coins, or some good birds' eggs plates. — B. Mason, 

 8 Warwick Road, Stratford-on-Avon. 



Wanted, micro-photographs in exchange for various slides. 

 — B Berry, Dudfleet, Horbury, Wakefield. 



Volvox globator — wanted, a good gathering in exchange 

 for first class botanical slides, by C. V. Smith, Carmarthen. 



Twenty-eight sorts of micro-seeds, 24 kinds of plant hairs, 

 and 18 species of fern soil to exchange for mounted objects. — 

 Rev. H. W. Lett, Lurgan, Ireland. 



A good \ in. object glass, with adjustment ; also a 2 in., by 

 Andrew Ross, both as perfect as possible ; what ofters in ex- 

 change ? — T. B. Forty, Buckingham. 



A FEW slides of diseased human lung (pneumonia) in exchange 

 for other well-mounted slides of interest.— S. C. L. , 276 Middle- 

 ton Road, Oldham. 



Will send six living budding specimens oi Hydra viridis on 

 receipt of a good mounted object. — J. W. Lockwood, Lobley 

 Street, Heckmondwike, Yoikshire. 



Foraminifera. — Will send well-mounted slide of Tinoporus 

 baculatus, two varieties, Torres Straits, for any well-mounted 

 slide of diatoms. — W. Aldridge, Westow Street, Upper Norwood, 

 London, S.E. 



Wanted, stamps or silver coin, reign James I. England, in 

 exchange for emu s egg or books.— J. 'J'. Millar, Inverkeithing, 

 Fifeshire. 



Shells for exchange: Unio tu7nidus, L. gliitinosa, paludina, 

 vivipara, A. acicula, C. biplicata, &c. Send lists of duplicates 

 and desiderata to— S. C. Cockerel!, 51 Woodstock Road, Bed- 

 ford Park, Chiswick, London. 



Science-Gossip, vols. 1881, 18S2, and first four numbers of 

 1883, in exchange eitherfor older vo's., books on natural history,, 

 specimens, or apparatus.— S. B. Axford, 114 Ebury Street, 

 London, S W. 



Fokami.<ifera material (good) wanted in exchange for well- 

 mounted slides.— A. C Tipple, 35 Alexander Road, Upper 

 HoUoway, N. 



Swift's sea-side and clinical microscope, with i in. objective, 

 spot lens, and tripod stand, in morocco case, 61 in. X 3, equal 

 to new. What offers? — J. C. P. Brown, 31 Derby Street, Moss 

 Side, Manchester. 



A few slides of Bacillii'! iitberculos^is, the Bacilli stained red, 

 and surrounding tissue blue ; also slides of ostracoda and 

 foraminifera/ Lists in exchange. — Samuel M. Malcolmson, 

 M.D., Union Hospital, Belfast. 



Dui'LICAtes : h'isidhiin piisitlum, Planorlis nautileus, and 

 var. cristata, PI. nitidus, PL vortex, PI. carinatns, PI. C0711- 

 planatiis, PI. contortns, and Aticylus lacustris. Desiderata : 

 varieties of Biitish land and freshwater shells; also many 

 British marine shells. — Robert B. Cook, 44 St. John Street, 

 Lord Mayor's Walk, York. 



Wanted, " British Graphidese " and "British Umbilicariae." 

 by Rev. W. A. Leighton. — F. Bower, 6 Dryden Street, C.-on-M., 

 Manchester. 



Carboniferous fossils, including fishes' teeth, scales, &c., 

 from the coal, in exchange for fossils from other formations. — 

 Wm. Hal lam, Worsboro' Dale, Barnsley. 



Wanted, sea-weeds from the south coast of England. — 

 W. L. Balmara, Castle Street, Warkworth, Northumberland. 



Offered, Tcstacella inaugei, preserved in spirit for micro- 

 scopical purposes, in exchange for good tropical land shells, or 

 marine.— Jessie Hele, Fairlight, Elmgrove Road, Catham, 

 Bristol. 



Wanted, a few specimens of shells and other objects from 

 earth mounds, tumuli, &c. A liberal and varied exchange 

 offered.— Ed. Lovett, 43 Clyde Road, Croydon. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"The Student's Handbook to Physical Geology," by A. 

 Jukes-Brown, F.G.S. London: G. Bell & Sons.— " Minera- 

 logy," byj. H. Collins. London: W. Collins & Co.— " Bulletin 

 of the United States Geological Survey," No. i, " Reports of 

 Observations and Experiments under the Direction of the Ento- 

 mologist," by Dr. C. V. Riley.— " Thoughts on the Interdepen- 

 dence of Water and Electricity." London: W. Ridgway. — 

 " Report of Botanical Exchange Club for 1882.'' — "Transactions 

 of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club for 1882-83." — "Annual 

 Report of the Wellington College Natural Science Society, 1883 " 

 — " Annual Report of the Nottingham Naturalists' Society, 

 1883." — " Proceedings of the Geologists' Association," No. 4, 

 Vol. 8. "The Journal of Microscopy," Vol. 3, Part 10.— 

 " Studies in Microscopical Science," edited by A. fC. Cole. — 

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

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

 " Petrological Studies." By Messrs. J. E. Ady & H. Hensoldt. 

 —"The Gentleman's Magazine."—" Belgravia."— " Journal of 

 Conchology."— "The Journal of Microscopy."— "The Science 



Natural History and Goology," Vol. i. No. i.— "Science 

 Record." — "American Monthly Microscopical Journal." — 

 "The Microscopical Bulletin." — "Popular Science News."— 

 "The Botanical Gazette."— " The Ornithologist and Oologi.st."^ 

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

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

 "Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society," Vol. 4, Part 2. 

 — " Bulletin of the California Academy of Sciences," No. i, &c. 



Communications received up to ioth ult. from: — 

 J. F. R.— J. H. C. R.-Dr. T. S. R.— R. H.— G.T. R.— F. A. 

 -C. F. H.-F. S.— J. W.-F. T. M.— J. W.— T. »R. R.— 

 A. W. G.-W. H.— J. P.-E. H. R.-W. M.-W. R.— 

 W. J. 'S.-R. L.-J." G.-J. H. W.-J. R. M.-T. H. B.- 



F. M. H.-H. F.-J. B.-A. H. S.— C. P.-G. F. L.-B. 1.- 



G. C. D.-J. W.-E. & G. F.-T. B. R— J. M. B. T.— 

 H. C. B.— A. H. W.— W. M. C. O'N.— J. W. W.-J. B. B.- 

 A. E. P.-R. M. L.-J. E. N.-G. T. G.-J. J. O.-G. D.— 

 C. C.-W. M-T. D. A. C.-A. A.-E. T. D.-J. C. B.- 

 H. J. M.-I. H.-A. F.-J. J. M.-B. H.-F. T.-W. P. Q. 

 _H W. P -J. Y.-R. B.-H. D. G.-H. W. L.-W. H. M- 

 -B. I\I.-A. A. C. S.-C. J.-C. R.-A. H. W.-H A.— 

 W. B. & S.-C. V. S.-B. B.-W. J.-J. J. M.-S. C. L.- 

 A. W. G.— T. B. F.— W. A.— R. L— T. W. L.— S. B.A — 

 F C— A C T.— A. W. O.— A. S.— W. H.— W. A. L.— F. V,. 

 — R. B. C.-Dr. S. M. M.— T. C. P. B.-G. M.-S. C C.— 

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

 <V.B.G.-R. H. B.-T. h' M.-J. H.-E. L.-W. L. B.- 

 F. C, &c. 



