HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



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The Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador. 

 — I am engaged in investigating the subject of the 

 flora of Newfoundland and Labrador, of which very 

 little is known, especially here in the country itself. 

 For our knowledge we are mainly indebted to those 

 few naturalists who from time to time have visited 

 Newfoundland. I am now compiling a complete 

 list of our flora, as far as it is known, and this appears 

 at intervals in our St. John's " Colonist." I am also 

 preparing for that paper, and ultimately for separate 

 publication, articles on our "Wild Fruits and 

 Berries." I should feel much obliged for help in 

 the matter, especially in following heads : — 



1. In what books or magazines (English or Ame- 

 rican) can I find information as to our flora ? 



2. To what societies or institutions (Linnrean), and 

 to what papers could I apply for help, and which 

 will feel an interest in my work ? 



3. What magazines and papers would afford me 

 most help as to botanical matters ? 



4. Where could I obtain good coloured engravings 

 of wild flowers and fruits ? 



5. What books are available on the subjects of 

 wild fruits, especially of England and North Ame- 

 rica? 



6. What are the cheapest and best books (with 

 coloured plates) on North American and British 

 ferns, mosses, lichens and seaweeds? 



I send you some local papers containing some of 

 my articles, and, if you care for a complete set, will 

 gladly send them ; they may be worth a notice in 

 your magazine. I shall be glad to send, by parcel 

 post, roots of some of our Newfoundland ferns and 

 flowers, which are unknown or rare in England, in 

 return for useful books and articles on botany. — 

 Arthur C. Waghornc. 



Prolific Pond. — Since the foregoing (Science- 

 Gossip, No. 272, Aug. 1887, page 1S5) was written, 

 I have been fortunate in finding the following, which 

 being added to the previous list brings up the number 

 of species to forty-four, and so making my pond 

 equal to the best recorded instance — I. Dinocharis 

 tctractis ; 2. Notommata aurita ; 3. Furcularia ensi- 

 fcra ; 4. F. mrfandricus ; 5. RIonostyla bulla ; 6. Di- 

 gkua graudis. Nos. 4 and 6 are Mr. Gosse's 

 identification, from a tube I sent him. No. 4 I do 

 not know, but presume it is one of the new species 

 which has to appear in the "Journal of the Royal 

 Microscopical Society." — J. E. L. 



NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



To Correspondents and Exchangers. — As we now 

 publish Science-Gossip earlier than formerly, we cannot un- 

 dertake to insert in the following number any communications 

 which reach us later than the 8th of the previous month. 



To Anonymous Querists. — We must adhere to our rule of 

 not noticing queries which do not bear the writers' names. 



To Dealers and Others. — We are always glad to treat 

 dealers in natural history objects on the same fair and general 

 ground as amateurs, in so far as the "exchanges" offered are fair 

 exchanges. But it is evident that, when their offers are simply 

 disguised advertisements, for the purpose of evading the cost of 

 advertising, an advantage is taken of ovx gratuitous insertion of 

 " exchanges " which cannot be tolerated. 



We request that all exchanges may be signed with name (or 

 initials) and full address at the end. 



R. P., jun. (Airdrie). — The flat zoophyte is Membranipora 

 tnembranacea, the other Scrtularia jalcuta. The little round 

 objects are the cases of a marine worm (Spirorbis). The 

 objects from Macassar Straits are a species of the larger 

 tropical foraminifera. 



C. C. Dallas. — Judging from your rough sketch and de- 

 scription, we believe cup-shaped object attached to a twig is 

 the empty pupa case of one of the saw-flies. 



J- H.— See Maund's " Botanic Garden." Capital illustra- 

 tions of the tea-plant may be seen and studied at Kew, where 

 all information might be obtained. 



Miss W. — There is no doubt your shell is a cowrie [Cyprea. 

 caurica or C. lynx, but it is impossible to be certain from a 

 verbal description only. 



A. R. T. Winchlev. — "Up the River from Westminster to 

 Windsor" was published by Hardwicke and Bogue in 1876. 

 Apply for information concerning it to Messrs. W. H. Allen 

 and Co., Waterloo Place, London. 



C. D. — Your lichen is Cladonia cornucoj>ioides. Get the 

 "Young Collector" series on "Lichens and Mosses," price is. 

 (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.) ; afterwards Lindsay's " British 

 Lichens," price 10s. 6d., coloured plates. 



F. Lannon. — Get Coleman's "Our Woodlands, Heaths and 

 Hedges," illustrated, price 2 s - 6d. Mount your sections of 

 woods in Canada balsam. 



I. Bowman. — We shall be very pleased to receive your 

 ornithological papers. 



T. B. G. — Your mineral is a crystal of selenite from the 

 London clay. 



X. R. — You will find a full description of fossil encrinites 

 (with illustrations) in Taylor's "Common British Fossils, and 

 where to find them," price 7s. 6.1. (Chatto and Windus). 



C. T. H. — One good method of mounting the smaller fossils 

 of the Bartar clay is on black paper within glass-topped 

 boxes. 



EXCHANGES. 



Wanted, skins of British mammals, particulirly pole-cat, 

 water-.'hrew, badger, otter, martins and chiroptera. Many 

 valuable works on natural history offered in exchange. List on 

 application. — W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, B.rmingham. 



Wanted, Star-fishes and sea-urchins ; must be in good 

 condition. Books and specimens of natural history offered in 

 exchange. — W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, Birmingham. 



Wanted, stalk-eyed Crustacea (British). Good return made. 

 — W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, Birmingham. 



Wanted, small serviceable microscope ; will give in ex- 

 change a solid silver verge hunter. — A. G. H., 10 St. John's 

 Hill, New Wandsworth, S.W. 



Will give a small collection of mounted seaweeds, 2 vols. 

 "Family Friend," several numbers of " Cassell's Popular 

 Recreator," in cover with leather backs, few fossils, &c, 

 for "Dana's Mineralogy," or Lyell's "Geology." — A. G. H., 

 10 St. John's Hill, S.W. 



Offered, British coleoptera, for insects of other orders to 

 illustrate mimicry, or pairs in which the sexes show great 

 difference of form or colour. — C. H. Goodman, 9 Dorlcote 

 Road, Wandsworth Common. 



Wanted, copies of Schuckard's "British Bees," and of 

 Newman's " Butterflies and Moths." — R. B. Postans, 14 Enys 

 Road, Eastbourne. 



Should be obliged if conchologists would send L. peregra 

 and vars. from any localities. Good exchange. — F. K. Fitz- 

 gerald, Harrogate. 



Wanted, British and foreign clausilia. Good exchange.— 

 Fitzgerald, Harrogate. 



Lyell's "Travels in North America," 2 vols., and " Second 

 Visit to the States," 2 vols. What offers? — C. L. Lord, 34 

 Burlington Crescent, Goole. 



Wanted, some common frogs (preferably in their winter 

 torpor). Good exchange in books, etc.— J. Eyre, 4 Render 

 Street, New Cross Road, London, S.E. 



Wanted, in exchange for fossils, flint or bone implements, 

 from any locality.— A. T. Tichborne, Lodge, Oakfield Park, 

 Croydon. 



Wanted, Annals and Magazine of Natural History ; books 

 on spiders, sponges, gorgonias, etc., or material. In exchange 

 I will give other books, very superior microscopical slides, etc. 

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



Full-grown frog wanted. Will give micro-slide in exchange 

 or pay postage.— J. M. Bain, n Bothwell Street, Glasgow. 



Lantern views only once used ; about 2 dozen fine Sco:ch 

 views in exchange for apparatus or books. — J. M. Bain, 11 

 Bothwell Street, Glasgow. 



