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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



W. G. — The occurrence of four-legged chickens fs by no 

 means rare. We have seen four this summer, and the other 

 day had a four-legged duck (a year old) brought us. The 

 sagacious bird utilised its two hind but well-developed feet to 

 sit upon ! 



A. B. — Get the following separate monographs from Meiifrs. 

 Lovell Reeve & Co., 5 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. 

 They are from Curtis's " British Entomology." — Orthoptera 

 (price 5^.) ; Hymenoptera (price £(> 5^-); Neuroptera (price 

 13X.) ; Coleoptera (price £\'2 16^.). They contain figures of all 

 British species. Or get Rye's " British Beetles," price los. dd. ; 

 Shuckard's " British Bees," price loj. dd., same publisher. 



EXCHANGES. 



SpLENDiDLV-preserved and correctly-named Swiss Alpine 

 plants. Price dd. each.— Address, Dr. B., care of Editor of 

 Science-Gossip, 214 Piccadilly. 



Offered, insects from south-east of France, such as Coleop- 

 tera diptera, dry or in acetic acid, all fresh killed ; also dry 

 plants, from the same country, in exchange for good mounted 

 slides. — E. Rodier, 6i Rue Mazarin, Bordeaux, France. 



Beautiful fossil sand from Sancat's tertiary deposits, con- 

 taining well-preserved foraminifera, shells, coral spicules (any 

 quantity), in exchange for good mounted slides. — E. Rodier, 

 61 Rue Mazarin, Bordeaux, France. 



Wanted, fresh specimens of stag beetle and male cricket for 

 dissecting purposes. — John Moore, 86 Porchester Street, Bir- 

 mingham. 



Wanted, all classes of Reptilia, British and foreign, alive 

 and in spirits, in large quantities : foreign correspondents espe- 

 cially requested. Also alive, about 500 bull frogs of America, 

 and about 5000 common frogs of England. Also the following, 

 alive, in large quantities: hedgehogs, moles, common snakes, 

 tree frogs, natterjack toads, tortoises, Helix pomatia, blind- 

 worms, and lizards.— E. Wade Wilton, Fairfield, Buxton. 

 _ Springfield, Bermuda, and Cambridge, U.S.A., Polycis- 

 tinous earths, one oz. of either on receipt of six good 3X1 mounts 

 on smooth edge slips. — Tylar, 20 Geach Street, Birmingham. 



Cluster cups on Qici. rubellum, CEci. Epilobii, CEci. Tra- 

 gopogotiis, CEci. nrticiE, CEci. ratiunculare, CEci. tussilago, all 

 mounted ; offered in exchange for other slides. — C. Garrett, 

 Shirley House, 30 Palmerston Road, Ipswich. 



Wanted, the following birds' nests with eggs : dipper, ring 

 ouzel, pied flycatcher, stonechat, goldfinch, and golden-crested 

 wren ;_also eggs of red grouse and sea birds in quantity. Of- 

 fered in exchange, other natural history specimens. — W. K. 

 Mann, Wellington Terrace, Clifton, Bristol. 



Eggs (side blown), dipper, pied flycatcher,' pied and grey 

 wagtail, tree and meadow pipits, starling, red-winged starling, 

 rook, jackdaw, magpie, lapwing, golden-winged woodpecker, 

 dunlin, oystercatcher, redshank, black-headed gull, sandpiper, 

 moorhen, landrail, common tern, &c., for others not in collec- 

 tion. — H. Patrickson, jun., Warwick Road, Carlisle. 



Powerful electric machine, with dial, regulator, &c., for 

 giving shocks, by Halse ; pair electric telegraph instruments, 

 electric bell, batteries, wire, &c., in portable case. Wanted, 

 American organ, harmonium with stops, gas engine, or boiler 

 heated by gas, or offers.— E. R. Dale, Esq., F.S.Sc. Lond., 

 Sherborne, Dorset. 



Splendid double breechloader, 12 bore, central fire, rebound- 

 ing locks ; what offers, musical instruments, or mechanics, to 

 value ;Cs ? — E. R. Dale, Sherborne, Dorset. 



Wanted, Cooke's " Manual of British Fungi, 1883," 2 vols. ; 

 cflTers, other scientific books and micro slides. — W. E. Green, 

 Cleve Dune, Belvoir Road, St. Andrew's Park, Bristol. 



Well-mounted slides of British mosses, named, for other 

 good micro slides ; also micro material for exchange. Send 

 lists to W. E. Green, Cleve Dune, Belvoir Road, St. Andrew's 

 Park, Bristol. 



Silurian and Carboniferous fossils for recent British marine 

 shells. Post-Tertiary and raised beach fossils for British fresh- 

 water and land shells. Lists exchanged. — J. Smith, Kilwinning, 

 Ayrshire. 



Collins" " Mineralogy," vol. i. ; Thorp's " Inorganic Che- 

 mistry ;" "Metals:" Pennell's " Angler Naturalist." Wanted, 

 Rimmer's "British Land and Freshwater Shells." — H. E. 

 Craven, Dale Road, Matlock Bridge. 



A DOUELE-BENT nosepiece to fit English microscope, in ex- 

 change for one to fit Hartnack's, or for a turntable or other 

 micro material.— E. H.Young, i8, Stonenest Street, ToUington 

 Park, N. 



Wanted, during the summer and autumn, a few good 

 gatherings of Desmids (exclusive of Closterium), for which 

 first-class botanical slides are offered in exchange.— C. V. Smith, 

 Carmarthen. 



For exchange, Indian reptiles in spirits, and splendid speci- 

 men of death's-head hawk moth. Wanted, wing cases of 

 diamond beetle, or micro slides, &c. — J. Boggust, Alton, Hants. 



Zoniies glnber offereA in exchange for other British shells.— 

 A. H. Shepherd, 4 Cathcart Street, Kentish Town, London, 

 N.W. 



Cash or useful exchange for specimen, of English and foreign 

 ants, larvK of ant-lion (Myrmeleon), or any curios connected 

 with the above.— Particulars to " Manager," 3 Upper Parlia- 

 ment Street, Liverpool. 



Eggs of nightingale, nightjar, tree creeper, and others, taken 

 m locality, to exchange.— J. H. H. Knights, Hawthorn Cottage, 

 Norwich Road, Ipswich. 



Wanted, first volume of Darwin's " Descent of Man," or 

 will part with second volume, containing good photo, of author 

 have got " Imperial Lexicon," half calf, to part with, and other 

 works, and want Lyell's "Principles of Geology." — Danie 

 Mayor, 7 Chaddock Street, Preston. 



"English Mechanic," fourteen vols. 18-32. Vols. 18-30 

 bound half calf, two vols, in one. Vols. 30-32 unbound, all 

 clean and in first-class condition, for last edition of " Sachs' 

 Manual," or works of Darwin and Huxley. — E. Irving, 125 

 Buchanan Street, Glasgow. 



Offered, for exchange, nests and clutches of dipper, clutches 

 of hooded crow, ringed plover, swift, coot, mute swan, teal, 

 cormorant, gannet, herring-gull, and other sea-birds, and many 

 other eggs, all one-holed, with data. Send list of duplicate 

 clutches and of desiderata. 



Irish nests and eggs in clutches, side blown, of sparrow- 

 hawk, kestrel, hooded crow, land-rail, jay, ring-dove, night-jar, 

 swallow, sand-martin, long-tailed tit, gold-crest, guillemot, 

 puffin, razor-bill, kittiwake, cormorant, oyster-catcher, lesser 

 black-backed and herring-gull. Wanted, British birds' eggs 

 in clutches.— Rev. W. W. Flemyng, Clonegam Rectory, Port- 

 law, CO. Waterford. 



Dl-^plicates, Sphf^rium corneum, Sp. rivicola, Pisidium 

 amnicum, P. pusillum, Anodonla cygnea, A. anatina and 

 Unio pictonan, all fine. Desiderata, British land, freshwater, 

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

 Mayor's Walk, York. 



Media for mounting animal, vegetable, and algje slides in, 

 in exchange for slides.— S. R. Hallam, 22 High Street, Burton- 

 on-Trent, Staffs. 



Wanted, slides of parts of Muscn domesiica (common house- 

 fly) in exchange for media or slides.— S. R. Hallam, 22 High 

 Street, Burton-on-Trent, Staffs. 



Clausilia delicata, CI. scalaris, &c., only found in Malta, 

 by pairs. Desiderata, micro-shdes, side-blown British eggs. 

 Several species of European butterflies in paper, &c. — E. F. 

 Becher, Hill House, Southwell, Notts. 



Wanted, complete clutches, eggs and nests, of pied fly- 

 catcher, ring-ouzel, stonechat, rock-pipit, woodlark, twite, &c. 

 Will give other eggs and nests, British Lepidoptera, or 'glass- 

 capped boxes for preserving nests. — Thos. H. Hedworth, 

 Dunston, Gateshead. 



W.ANTED, land, freshwater and marine shells; will give books, 

 slides and micro-material in exchange. — A. Alletsee, 7 Glendall, 

 Clifton, Bristol. 



Shall be glad to exchange the exotic fungi {Pucchiia Pilo- 

 carpii) for other micro fungi. — Geo. Ward, 26 St. Saviours, 

 Mere Road, Leicester. 



Wanted, "Nature," No. 725, September 20th, 18S3, with- 

 out plate. State what exchange or money to W. F., 56 Asylum 

 Road, London, S.E. 



Microscopic slide of Ha-tnatopinus Canis in exchange for 

 other parasites. — H. F. Jolly, Stow Villa, Bath. 



BOOKS. ETC., RECEIVED. 



"A Synopsis of the Bacteria and Yeast Fungi," by W. B. 

 Grove, B.A. London: Chatto and Windus. — "Petland Re- 

 visited," by the Rev. J. G. Wood, M.A. London: Longmans 

 & Co. — "Wonders of Plant Life under the Microscope," by 

 Sophie B. Herrick. London: W. H. Allen & Co. — "Bicycles 

 of the Year 1884," by H. H. Griffin. London: L. Upcott 

 Gill. — " 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. — 

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

 of Microscopy." — "The Science Monthly." — "Midland Natu- 

 ralist." — "Ben Brierley's Journal." — "Science Record," — 

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

 nal" (New York). — "Canadian Entomologist." — "American 

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

 — "The Botanical Gazette." — "Revue de Botanique." — "La 

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

 &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to ioth ult. from : — 

 H. R.— H. D.— F. C. L.— H. M.— J. B.— H. J. W., junr.— 

 J. Y.— E. M.— S. A. B.— J. F. R.— H. P., junr.— W. K. M.— 

 H. N. P.— F. C. K.-Dr. O. N. W.-W. H.— J. A. D.— 

 E. R. D.— W. J.— S. C— W. E. G.— A. W. O.— G. S. M. F.— 

 W. P.— E. T. D.— J. S.— H. E. C— J. S.— J. H. G.— E. L— 

 J. H. D.— C. F. W. T. W.— E. A.— K. H. A.— W. G. H. T.— 

 C. C— J. M.— Dr. W. B. K.— M. L. S.— C. D. B.— W. T.— 

 J. S.-G. G.— A. S. W.— E. W. W.— H. G. D.— H. L.— 

 J. H. G., junr.— J. H. H. K.— J. W. Q.— H. L.— J. H. C. K. 

 — H. A. F.— A. P.— D. M.— M. H. R.— E. B.— H. B.— 

 W. H. H.— T. D. A. C.-A. H. S.— H. A.— E. J. H.— E. H. Y. 

 —J. B.— C V. S — T. M. R.— P. E— A. B.— R. J. U.— 

 W. W. F.— R. B. C— W. D.— J. J. S.— C. P.— S. J. H.— J. S. 

 W. E. B.— W. G.— S. R. H,— J. H.— E. A. G.— M. J. H.— 

 T. H. H.— E. F. B.— F. W. E.— G. W.— H. F. J.— E. H. S.— 

 H. J. J., &c. 



