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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Land and freshwater shells offered in exchange for foreign 

 postage stamps.— E. Collier, 74 Yarburgh Street, Moss Side, 

 Manchester. 



Linincra stagnnlis and Planorhis corneus (very fine), L. 

 glabra, L. peregra, Plattorbis spirorbis, and Physa hyp7ioru7n, 

 "also eggs of dabchick, plover, teal, coot, wild duck, and water- 

 hen (side blown). Desiderata, other shells and eggs (the latter 

 side blown). — W. Hewett, 26 Clarence Street, York. 



Wanted, Cooke's " Handbook to British Fungi," 2 vols. — 

 W. Mills, I Ranheillor Place, Edinburgh. 



For pure gatherings of Volvox [Protococcus viridis) and 

 Hydrodictyon, I will give cash or first-class microscopical 

 slides. — Rev. J. E. Vize, Forden Vicarage, Welshpool. 



For exchange, nests and clutches of eggs of common bunting, 

 meadow pipit, skylark, willow wren, willow warbler, hedge 

 accentor, mistletoe thrush, song thrush, blackbird, chaffinch, 

 greenfinch, yellowhammer, robin. Would be glad for offer of 

 British birds' eggs. — Robert Barker, 11 Fowend Street, Groves, 

 York. 



Microscopic slides in great variety, well mounted, in ex- 

 change for other well-mounted slides. Lists exchanged. — C. 

 Croydon, Pato Point, Torpoint, Cornwall. 



Large variety of good micro slides to exchange for other 

 good ones. Send list. — J. E. Fawcett, Rawdon, near Leeds. 



" Knowledge," Nos. 33 to 87, minus No. 63, clean, unbound. 

 Will exchange for good modern work on botany. — A. Wright, 

 9 High Street, King's Lynn. 



Wanted, common land and freshwater shells from all parts 

 of the country ; can offer a large selection in exchange. Send 

 lists of duplicates and desiderata to Sydney C. Cockerel!, 

 51 Woodstock Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. 



Wanted a good microscope. Send particulars to S. C. C, 

 SI Woodstock Road, Bedford Park, W. 



Wanted, " Student's Elements of Geology," by Lyell. Par- 

 ticulars and price to F. C, care of Mr. Girlling, High Street, 

 Harlow, Essex. 



Leighton's " Lichen Flora of Great Britain," 3rd edition: 

 Berkeley's " British Mosses," 1863 ; and Weinhold's " Physics ;" 

 all nearly new ; what offers ? — Flos, Westbury House, Liverpool 

 Gardens, Worthing. 



The " English Entomologist," exhibiting all the coleopterous 

 insects found in England by T. Martyn, with 546 coloured 

 figures (1792) ; wanted in exchange, Newman's "British But- 

 terflies and Moths" (new) and Rye's " British Beetles " (new). 

 — C. Donovan, jun., Westview, Glandare, Leap, co. Cork. 



What offers (in micro slides preferred) for a bottle containing 

 five snakes, three lizards, and a white frog, in spirit from Africa, 

 also a fine specimen of the weaver bird's nest? — Killgour, 63 

 Dallfield Walk, Dundee, N.B. 



For exchange, "Nature," vol. viii. (bound), vols, ix.-xiii., 

 unbound. Wanted, works on botany or micro apparatus. — A. 

 Wise, Seaton Villas, Leytonstone, E. 



British birds' eggs and freshwater shells for newly-collected 

 specimens of stag beetle unset and mole cricket. For list of desi- 

 derata, apply — Robert Barker, n Fowend Street, Groves, York. 



Exotic Lepldoptera, many rare species in duplicate ; col- 

 lectors please send lists in exchange ; also for microscopic 

 purposes wings oi Papilios Buddha anipolycior, Apatura lau- 

 rentia, Agraitlis moneta, Morpho menclaus, and Urania 

 rhypheus. — J. C. Hudson, Railway Terrace, Cross Lane, 

 Manchester. 



D1AT0MACE.E : Heliopelta, Arachnoidiscus, Triceratum, and 

 other forms, selected and arranged in groups. Best finished 

 slides in exchange for good gatherings of Campylodiscus cos- 

 iatus, C. clypeus, Pleurosigma forviosum, or rich deposits. — 

 W. White, 17 York Street, Nottingham. 



For hairs of Orniikorynchus paradoxus, or Pinna shell (for 

 sections showing prisms), send stamped addressed envelope to 

 W. White, 17 York Street, Nottingham. 



Wanted, diatoms on sea-weeds and in muds from all the 

 tropic seas. Offered, a large quantity in fine selected diatoms 

 and other slides, or cash. — J. C. Rinnboek, 14 Simmering, Wien, 

 Austria. 



" Health," vols. i. and ii., clean and complete, unbound ; 

 wanted, mineralogical and zoological specimens. — Send lists to 

 J. H. W. Laing, Tay Port, N.B. 



Diatomace^ : wanted, a small quantity of Glenshira sand, 

 containing the forms described by Professor Gregory ; would 

 give in exchange mounts of good recent collections from Skye 

 and Orkney, the latter containing many of the new forms found 

 by him in the Firth of Clyde and Loch Fine. — Isaac Robinson, 

 Hertford. 



TuDES of Melicerta ringens (Rotifer), Volvox globator, 

 green hydra, and living diatoms ; also micro slides in exchange 

 for other forms, slides, and micro materials. — John J. Andrew, 

 2 Belgravia, Belfast. 



Wanted, Foraminifera, Polycistina, Spicules, and other 

 good micro material, for good mounted slides or cash. — B. 

 Wells, Dalman Road, Forest Hill. 



Wanted, blue and orange or purple and yellow stage sele- 

 nites ; would give in exchange four well-mounted slides diatoms 

 for either. — Mathie, 42 McKinlay Street, Glasgow. 



Continental plants, dried and named, to exchange for 

 British species. Correspondence invited. — E. Straker, Kenley, 

 Surrey. 



For well-cut and mounted sections of cats' or dogs' gray 

 whiskers (good polar objects), pollen of Nicotiana tabacum, 

 send any interesting or instructive slide ; list of duplicates 

 exchanged.— H. F. Jolly, Stow Villa, Bath. 



Wanted, micro apparatus and material, books or jewellery, 

 in exchange for well-mounted parasites, crystals, and wooden 

 slides of botanical, marine, and forams, recommended for d.^rk 

 objects by Dr. Carpenter. — S. Harrison, 12 Dalmain Road, 

 Forest Hill. 



Offered, Helix virgata, H. caperata, H. nipesiris, H. 

 pisana, H . sericea, Bulitnus acutus, Myttlus pellucida, Car- 

 dium echinatum, Venus gallina. Tapes pullastra, Lucinopsis 

 undata, Tellina iejiuis, T. fabula, Mactra siultoruiii, M. 

 subtnincaia, Scrobicularia piperaia, Donax villatus, Solen 

 vagina, Ceratisolen Icgujnen, Natica catena, Cerithiuin reti- 

 culatuin, Utriculus obtnsus, Acta^on tornatilis. Wanted, 

 many species of marine shells and well-mounted micro slides. — 

 C. Jefferys. Hill House, Langharne, Carmarthenshire. 



Offered, palate of limpet, spines of echinus, and twelve 

 named species of zoophytes, unmounted, in exchange for well- 

 mounted micro slides or offers. — C. Jefferys, Hill House, Lang- 

 harne, Carmarthenshire. 



Wanted, Alder & Hancock's " Nudibranchiate MoUusca," 

 parts 6 and 7, Bate & Westwood's "Sessile-eyed Crustacea," 

 Moggeridge's" Ants and Spiders," and other good naturai 

 history works in exchange for Stark's " British Mosses," Berke- 

 ley's "Cryptogamic Botany," Laishley's " Birds' Eggs," &c. — 

 C. A. Grimes, Dover. 



Wanted, a few ounces of roughly-cleaned (for frames) ch.^Ik 

 from Gravesend and other parts of Kent, also a good gathering 

 of Volvox, for good microscopic slides of desmids and other 

 algse. — W. West, 15 Horton Lane, Bradford. 



First-class anatomical and pathological microscopic slides 

 offered in exchange for good magic lantern slides. — Henry Vial, 

 Crediton, Devon. 



Collection of dried specimens of fcfreign fruits, barks, &c. ; 

 also " Human Race," by Louis Figuier. Wanted, Cambrian, 

 Lower Silurians, and Paris basin fossils, 'or offers. — Miss Linter, 

 Arragon Close, Richmond Road, Twickenham. 



A MAHOGANY cabinet to hold two gross of slides, in exchange 

 for six dozen good slides. — William Tylar, 20 Geach Street, 

 Birmingham. 



Several species of British freshwater shells, either living or 

 dead (for aquarium or collection), in exchange for British land, 

 freshwater, and marine shells. — Robert B. Cook, 44 St. John 

 Street, Lord Mayor's Walk, York. 



Offered for exchange, eggs of the pochard, capercaillie, 

 long-eared owl, red-breasted merganser, kestrel, sparrow hawk, 

 carrion crow, &c. — R. Brodie, Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby. 



Photographs of microscopic objects in exchange for slides : 

 several duplicate slides also in hand ; lists exchanged. — W. 

 Moulton, 37 Chancery Lane, London, W.C. 



BOOKS, ETC.. RECEIVED. 



"Amongst the Wild Flowers," by the Rev. H. Wood. 

 London: W. S. Sonnenschein & Co. — United States Commis- 

 sion of Fisheries, "Commissioners' Report for 1880," Washing- 

 ton. — " Transactions of the New York Academy of Science for 



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

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

 "The Asclepiad," No. i, edited by Dr. Richardson. — "The 

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

 Microscopy." — "The Science Monthly." — "Midland Natural- 

 ist." — " Ben Brierley's Journal." — " Sunlight." — " Bulletin of 

 the California 'Academy of Science," No. i, Feb. 1884. — 

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

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

 Entomologist." — "American Monthly Microscopical Journal." 

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

 "Revue de Botanique." — "La Feuille des Jeunes Natural- 

 istes." — "Le Monde de la Science." — "Cosmos: les 

 Mondes." &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to ioth ult. from : — 

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

 C. R.— A. H. S.— W. W. W.— J. T. J.— C. C. A.— Miss J. Y. 

 — W. H.— G. A. G.— W. J.— G. M.— W. M.— P. L.— W. H.— 

 S. C. L.— R. W. R.— J. H.— W. B. G.— H. D. G.-W. G. W. 

 — C. K. F.— C. B.-W. B. B.— J. M. T.— B. P.— A. E. H.— 

 H. E. C— J. E. v.— E. C— E. F. B.-R. H. N. B.-A. L.— 

 C. R.-B. M. W.-E. C— F. T. M.— M. H. R.— F. H. L.— 

 H. D.— C. B.-H. J. M.-W. C. H.— W. G. W.-W. E. H. 

 — D. F.— E. K.— R. B.— I. C. T.— A. P. W.-C. D. jun.— 

 R. A. R. B.-J. C. H.-J. A. W.-W. W.-P. K.-F. C— 

 W. R.-F. A. A. S.-A. W.-S. C C.-C. C.-B. W.-J. E. F. 

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

 F. J. G.— S. H.— W. W.— J. C. R.— Mrs. E. L. O. M.— 

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

 — H. F. J.-W. E. R.-R. B. C.-H. U.— G. S. S.-J. E. L. 

 —J. F. G.— C. A. G.— E. S.-R. B.— A. J.— A. O.— 

 C. F. W. T. W.— S. B.-H. B.— R. H. B.-&c. 



