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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



"Phonetic Journal," 204 weekly parts, 1876, 1880, 1881, 

 and 1882, in good condition, unbound ; will exchange for geo- 

 logical works.— W. L. Atkinson, 205 Humberstone Road, 

 Leicester. 



Wanted, snakes, lizards, &c. : exchange " Knowledge," 

 vol.i., unbound (50 numbers), one number missing ; or money ; 

 or birds' eggs, side blown, and poisoned agamst mildew, &c. ; 

 state wants. — G. Simmons, 102 Ladbroke Grove Road, Notting 

 Hill, London. 



Pup^E of Menyanthidis, >S". fo/mli, and images of Davus ; 

 desiderata jiumerous.^John Mearns, 48 Jasamine Terrace, 

 Aberdeen. 



A COLLECTION of Over 700 foreign stamps, many rare and 

 unused, in Stafford Smith's Permanent Album (6^-. dd.), all dif- 

 ferent, catalogue, value over ;f 3. What offers? Wanted, ento- 

 mological cabinet and apparatus, also dissecting implements ; 

 no reasonable offer refused. — H. H., 4 Albert Terrace, Old 

 Trafford, Manchester. 



Duplicate micro slides for exchange, including many good 

 fish scales ; insect preparations specially wanted, also small flat 

 air pump. Lists exchanged. — H. Moulton, 37 Chancery Lane, 

 London, W.C. 



Wanted, Rimmer's "Land and Freshwater Shells" in ex- 

 change for books on natural history, vols, i.-iii of Science- 

 Gossip, &c.— A. Alletsee, 7 Glendale, Clifton, Bristol. 



On receipt of specimen of any unmounted material, I will 

 send unmounted specimen of Penicilliutii ^laiicum fungi on 

 germinating grain.— J. W. Horton. Brayford Wharf, Lincoln. 



Wanted, British and foreign Hepaticse. Offered, mounted 

 slides of the same or other species in return, or micro slides, 

 various. Address, with lists— W. E. Green, 24 Triangle, Bristol. 

 Wanted, cryptogamic micro slides ; will exchange books or 

 well-mounted slides of cocoon of silkworm for polariscope. — 

 W. S. P., Birstall, near I-eeds. 



Valentine's section knife, in case, never been used ; will 

 exchange for well-mounted slides, or what offers? — H. J. Parry, 

 10 Windsor Terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Lindsay's "Lichens," good copy, what offers? — W. P. 

 Quelch, 8 Kccleston Road, Ealing Dean, London, W. 



Duplicates : remarkably fine L. stagnalis and P. cot-nens ; 

 also L. glabra, jteregra, var. fragilis of stagnalis, L.falnstris, 

 H . arbiistorum , and var. JJavesceiis, H. riijesccns, Lapicida 

 ericet07-jivt, \ars. alba and snbinariti/na of 7nrgaia, C. ru- 

 gosa, &c. &c. Desiderata very numerous. — W. Hewett, 26 

 Clarence Street, York. 



MicKOScopic slides ; a number of good miscellaneous mounts 

 in exchange for others recently mounted ; also 12 tubes cleaned 

 diatoms, and some miscellaneous unmounted objects for dis- 

 posal.— Mathie, 42 McKinlay Street, Glasgow. 



Wanted, well-mounted slides, and a slide cabinet ; have a 

 large assortment of British shelU in duplicate. — S. C. Cockerell, 

 51 Woodstock Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. 



Starches, duplicates of eighteen kinds, dry, mounted, 

 offered for like number of good sections of British trees on type 

 forms of native desmids. — J. H. Morgan, St. Arvan's Lodge, 

 Chepstow, Monmouthshire. 



Oi'FERED, 150, 940, 1142, 1212, and many others, for 830 (if 

 Irish), 1042, 1347. Lists exchanged ; note change of address. 

 — C. A. Uakestiott, Marlborough Avenue, Torquay. 



Three hundred dried plants, including many rare species, 

 all British, for shells. — C. A. Oakeshott, Marlborough Avenue, 

 Torquay. 



For exchange, about four or five hundred Portuguese wild 

 flowers and plants, dried and named, for mosses or fresh or salt 

 water alga;, duly cla>sified. — Isaac Newton, Oporto. 



Micro slides and material, or a large number of herbarium 

 examples of British and foreign phanerogams for named and 

 localised rocks, minerals, fossils, or what offers? — J. H. Lewis, 

 145 Windsor Street, Liverpool. 



Fifty varieties of micro-fungi, also diatoms, histological and 

 entomological, and other we!l-moiuited micro slides to exchange 

 for other good preparations. For lists apply to — Dr. Moorhead, 

 Errigle, Cootchill, Ireland. 



Duilicatks: Amidon cygitea, Planorbis cornciis, Pahiditia 

 Listcri, Jiytliinia tentaculatci, and Limnea stag>ialis. Deside- 

 rata : Unio f>ictoruin, Unio inarnaritifcra, Cyclostoma cUgatis, 

 Succima chloiiga, helix lapicida, and Helix arbustoruiit. — 

 C. O., Syrian House, Sa'e, near Manchester. 



Wanted, Pisidium vitidnm, P. roseimt, P. f-'aisloiiiauiiiii, 

 P. piilchelluin, P. cincrouin, Vertigo Lilljeborgi (Westerhuig), 

 v. moulitisiami}!! (dup), /''. iuittida, V. alpestris, V. pusilla, 

 V. n?tgiisiior, I', minntissiiiia, Platioi'bis glaber. Will ex- 

 change for either of the above a 4^ inch specimen of Unio pic- 

 torinii from my recent find of these large shells in Ossington 

 Lake, or other Unios, Anodons, &c. ; state wants. — W. Gain, 

 Tuxford, Newark. 



Wanted, Scott's " Weather Charts and Storm Warnings " in 

 exchange for other book or micro slides, if cheap. — B., 36 Windsor 

 Terrace, Glasgow. 



For exchange, Lon. Cat. 7, 125, 130b, 147, 286, 361, 368, 593, 

 739. 913. '382, and very many other plants. Send lists to — 

 J. R. Neve, Campden, S.O., Gloucestershire. 



For exch2nge, " European I'utterflies and Moths," by W. F. 

 Kirby, neatly bound in half morocco, gilt edges; What offers? — 

 J. C. Mackay, 15 Gort'on Street, Aberdeen. 



Wanted, geological specimens for books, Cornish specimens 

 preferred. — John T. Millie, Clarence House, Inverkeithing. 



Wanted, Devonian corals or Silurian trilobites for Cooke's 

 " Ru^t, Smut, Mildew, and Mould '' (coloured illustrations) and 

 Cooke's "British Fungi" (coloured illustrations). — Cairns, 1 11 

 Princess Street, Hurst, Ashton-under-Lyne 



W.\nted, geological specimens and minerals, Cornish pre- 

 ferred, in exchange for books, foreign coins, and eggs. — John B. 

 Douglas, High Street, Inverkeithing. 



Offered, L.C., 7th edit., 180, 273c, 317, 490, 584, 715, 1130, 

 1210, 1422, and others. Wanted, loi, 119, 377, 665, 762, 997, 

 1035, 1240, 1302, and others. Send lists. — A. W. Preston, 

 Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich. 



First-class anatomical and pathological sections from the 

 human subject, and carmine injected sections from kitten and 

 rabbit, in exchange for well-mounted slides. Desiderata, insect 

 preparations, grouped diatoms, and botanical objects. — H. Vial, 

 Crediton, Devon. 



Micro slides : fifty varieties of micro fungi, diatoms, histo- 

 logical sections (animal and vegetable), to exchange for other 

 well-mounted slides. Apply for lists to — Dr. Moorhead, Errigle, 

 Cootehill, Ireland. 



Macgillivray's " Conchologists' Text-book," 21 coloured 

 plates, 9th edition, offered for micro slides. — F. Adams, 92 Upper 

 Alma Street, Newport, Monmouth. 



Wanted, a few good specimens of Dytiscus viarginalis, 

 fresh (this season's), either living or dead ; also specimens of 

 rhinoceros horn, whalebone, and various hoofs for section- 

 cutting. Good exchange in well-mounted objects or material.^ 

 R. M., 59 Hind Street, Stanisby Road, Poplar, London, E. 



L. stagnalis, P. corneus, from Strensell Common ; Paludina 

 vivipara, Unio iumidus, from Riverfoss ; in exchange for 

 land and freshwater shells or marine — Robert Barker, ii Tow- 

 end Street, Groves, York. 



Wanted, Science-Gossip for 1869, 71, 73, 74, and 75, un- 

 bound or bound in recent blue covers, in exchange for coins, 

 fossils, loose geological papers, or books. — C. Beale, Lime Tree 

 House, Rowley Regis, Dudley. 



Science-Gossip for 1865, 1874, 1875, bound in cloth case, for 

 1876 in numbers with case, and for 1877, 1878, in numbers ; a 

 micro lamp by Home and Thornth waite, with porcelain shade, in 

 polished pine- wood case ; a powerful home made induction coil 

 of good workmanship, made of over three miles of wire, with 

 carbon-zinc bichromate battery ; also a £^2 qs. Carter's reading 

 and writing desk, quite new, adjustable to any angle, and can 

 be used as a small table for invalids in bed. Micro slide 

 cabinet or micro accessories to value. — B. B. W., 23 Batoum 

 Gardens, West Kensington Park, W. 



W.\NTED, to exchange living specimens of rare and cutical 

 species of Ijritish plants. List of duplicates will be sent. — 

 Arthur Bennett, High Street, Croydon. 



Wanted, .Science-Gossip, Nos. 229, 230, 231 ; also botanical 

 slides for vols. iv. and v. " Oracle," first vol. " Knowledge," 

 and Balfour's "Outlines" (1862). — F. Marshall, Benwick, 

 March. 



Will send tube of fine budding specimens of Hydra viridis 

 for good mounted object or unmounted physiological sections. — 

 T. W. Lockwood, Lobley Street, Heckmondvvike, Yorkshire. 

 Offered, L. C, 7th ed., 148, 197, 406, 859, 924, 1008, 1319, 



1333. 1349- 1412, 1422, 1446, 1447. 1458, 1494. 1497. 1501, 1504, 

 1577. Send lists. — H. J. Wilkinson, 6 Alexandra Terrace, York. 



BOOKS. ETC., RECEIVED. 



" Smithsonian Report, 1882." — " Diseases of Farm and Garden 

 Crops," by Worthington G. Smith. London : Macmillan & Co. 

 — "The Honey Bee," by W. H. Harris. London: Religious 

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"Ben Brierley's Journal." — "Science . ^. .,^. 



— "American Naturalist." — "The Electrician and Flectrical 

 Engineer." — "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." — 

 " Cosmos, les Mondes." — " Revista," &c. &c. &c. 



Communications receive 

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