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HARD WICKE ' .S S CIE NCE- G SSI P. 



Wanted, specimens of British bees; will give in exchange 

 Lepidoplera, Co'eoptera or Diptera (the latter well set on 

 cards, but unnamed). — A. E. J. Carter, 9 Argyle Crescent, 

 Portobe'.lo, N.B. 



Wanted, birds' nests and eggs from all parts of the world ; 

 British specimens offered in exchange. — J. T. T. Reed, Ryhope, 

 Sunderland. 



Science-Gossip fur Sept. 1881 to March 18S2: ditto for 

 June 1885 to Dec. 1885; "Out of Doors," by Rev. J. G. 

 Wood ; " Manual of Injurious Insects," by Miss Ormerod ; and 

 " Practical Biology," by Huxley, in exchange for Shuckard's 

 "British Bees," Darwin's "Cross- and Self-fertilization of 

 Plants," or specimens of Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. — 

 A. E. J. Carter, 9 Argyle Crescent, Portobello, N.B. 



Wanted, Rocking, Roy's or other good microtomes ; will 

 s;ive large quantity of first-class slides for them. — Fred. Lee 

 Carter, Gosforth. 



Wanted, mounted or unmounted parasites ; will give others 

 in exchange — 160 to select from. Send lists. — Fred. Lee Carter, 

 25 Lansdowne Terrace, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Wanted, a good microscope and accessories, in exchange 

 for a collection, in album, of about 1200 foreign stamps in 

 perfect condition; catalogue value, {,11. — P., 80 Leathwaite 

 Road, Clapham Common, London, S.W. 



Good object for the polariscope — horn, bone, whalebone, 

 chemical crystals, &c, also micro photographs ; good exchange 

 in slides. Write first. — J. Boggush, Alton, Hants. 



Wanted, good dissecting microscope ; offered, well-mounted 

 slides of rare objects, collection of echinoderms or other zoo- 

 logical objects. — Charlotte Sinel, Peel Villas, Jerse}'. 



Micro Slii es. — A series of fern slides and others in ex- 

 change for first-class micro and magic lantern slides. — Walter 

 Henshall, The Hollies, Bredbury, near Stockport. 



For exchange: — Science Gossip for 1884, with eleven 

 coloured plates ; what offers ? — John T. Foster, Little Driffield, 

 East Yorkshire. 



Wanted, live or dead specimens of Vitrliia pelhtcida and 

 varieties; exchange given in freshwater shells. — W. E. Co'.linge, 

 Springfield Place, Leeds. 



In exchange for well-mounted micro slides, bound or un- 

 bound vols, of Science-Gossip, a polished mahogany box to 

 hold 104 microscopic slides. — Herbert Spencer, Masboro' House, 

 Balham, S.W. 



A quantity of well-mounted and interesting slides and 

 land and freshwater shells, Desiderata, Newman's " British 

 Moths and Butterflies," Cooke's "Ponds and Ditches," and 

 books on Coleoptera, pond life and micro natural history. — 

 James C. Blackshaw, 4 Ranelagh Road, Wolverhampton. 



Wanted, foreign shells and corals, in exchange for fossils, 

 books or cash. — J. W. E., 145 Milnrow Road, Rochdale. 



British and Australian marine zoophytes wanted. — J. W. E., 

 145 Milnrow Road, Rochdale. 



Science-Gossip complete for first twenty years, bound in 

 double volumes, nearly new ; also large number of good micro- 

 scopical slides, animal and vegetable —what offers? — Micro, 

 10 Belmont, Bath. 



Mouillefarine, 46 rue Sainte-Annes, Paris, wishes to do 

 extensive changes with a botanist of the New World ; offers 

 references. — Ch. Copineau, juge, Tribunal civil de Doullens 

 (Somme). 



"Tomlinson's Cyclopaedia of useful Arts, &c. " (Virtue), 

 9 vols., cloth, numerous fine steel plates, &c. ; also "Know- 

 ledge," Nos. 1-56, in thirteen monthly parts, as published, 

 both clean and good, exchanged ; i-plate photo Iensjor magic 

 lantern preferred. — Hughes, Assistant Overseer, Bangor, N. 

 Wales. 



Wanted, named and localised English land, marine and 

 freshwater shells, or foreign ditto ; exchange fossils, coins, &c. 

 — F. Stanley, Margate. 



Wanted, named British or foreign birds' eggs, or preserved 

 skins ; exchange coins, meda's, fossils or shells. — F. Stanley, 

 Margate. 



Rotifcra. — Wanted, a few correspondents for occasional 

 exchanges. — David Bryce, 37 Brooke Road, Stoke Newington 

 Common, N. 



Wanted, continental, American and foreign plants and 

 micro-fungi, in exchange for indigenous (British) species. Cur- 

 rest ondence u'hh students of foreign micro-fungi invited. — Rev. 

 Hilderic Friend, F.L.S., Carlisle. 



Lei idoptera. — Duplicates: Sambucata, Tiliaria, Comit .ta, 

 Megacephala, Ruberata, Rhomboidaria, Phragmitidis, Iota, 

 Umbratica, S. Ligustri (1). Desiderata: numerous. — George 

 Balding, Ruby Street, WUbech. 



For exchange, Planorlis glabcr, etc., for other shells. — John 

 Clegg, 5 Derby Street, Millwood, Todmorden. 



For exchange, Plan, dilatatus and glabcr exchanged for 

 other land and freshwater shells. — S. Clough, 20 Abingdon 

 Street, Blaclqool. 



Wanted, recent editions of "Carpenter on Microscope," 

 Eeale's " How to Work with Microscope," and Lankester's 

 "Half-hour with Microscope," will exchange numbers of 

 Science-Gossip. — W. T. Porter, 19 Otley Road, Headingley, 

 Leeds. 



Good carboniferous fossils offered for other fossils, micro- 

 slides, or electrical apparatus. — J. A. Hargreaves, Charlestown, 

 Saipley, Yorkshire. 



Morpho cypris, Morpho menelaus, Morpho e?ga, the most 

 dazzlingly beautiful of exotic lepidoptera ; what offers? — 

 Joseph Anderson, jun., Aire Villa, Chichester. 



"Knowledge," in parts, 4 vols.; what offers? — Joseph 

 Anderson, jun., Aire Villa, Chichester. 



Offered, first-rate slides of marine alga;, illustrating struc- 

 ture and reproductive organs ; many species. Wanted, Kiitz- 

 ing's "Species Algarum," and other works on alga;. — T. H. 

 Buffham, Comely Bank Road, Walthamstow. 



For exchange, Helix serieea, Helix hortensis, var. olivacea. 

 W anted, Limnea glutinosa, Limned invohita, Helix lamcllat.i, 

 Helix pomatia, all vars. of Helix aspersa, except minor; all 

 vars. of Helix capcrata, Bulimus acutus and its vars., and 

 vars. albina of Pupa wnbilicata and Pupa marginata, and 

 many others. — A. Hartley, 15 Croft Street, Idle, near Bradford. 



What offers for the following ? — 6 vols, of Lardner's " Science 

 and Art;" 2 vols. "Handbook of British Fungi," by M. C. 

 Cojke, M.A. ; 2 vol-. "Food and its Adulteration,'' by Hassall; 

 1 vol. "Materia Medica;" "How to Work with the Micro- 

 scope," by Beale ; "Mounting Microscopic Object-'," by 

 Davis ; a microscope preferred. — J. H. Morgan, St. Arvans, 

 Chepstow, Mun. 



Fossils from all formations desired in exchange for other 

 fossils from li s, magnesian limestone, &c. — Juhn Hawell 

 M.A., Ingleby-Greenhow Vicarage, Northallerton. 



Ammon.tes and belemnites desired in exchange for fossils, 

 minerals, shells, &c. — John Hawell, M.A., Ingleby-Greenhow 

 Vicarage, Northallerton. 



Berg-meal, or mountain-meal, from Norway, slides, and a 

 small quantity of material, both prepared and unprepared, in 

 exchange ; good diatoms preferred. Send lists. — Rev. A. C. 

 Smith, 3 Park Crescent, Brighton. 



Offered, complete clutches, with full data, of dipper, mag- 

 pie, long-eared owl, tawny owl, black grouse, re 1 grouse, 

 snipe, curlew, kittiwake and others. Wanted, over a hundred 

 species of British eggs, in clutches, many of them not un- 

 common. — B. A., Clifton House, Uxbridge. 



A lot of land, freshwater, and marine shells to name ; would 

 any of your readers name these for me (true name required), 

 and ii\ return would send two of e:ich species, if possible, for 

 their trouble ? — John Jos. Holstead, 19 Millholme Terrace, 

 Upperby Road, Carlisle. 



Wanted, Isocardia cor and other British shells ; exchange 

 Cardium aculeatum and a variety of other kinds of marine and 

 freshwater shells. — Mrs. Heitland, The Priory, Shrewsbury. 



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BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" A Flora of Hertfordshire," by the late A. R. Pryor (London : 

 Gurney & Jackson). " Mineralogy," by Frank Rutley, third 

 ed. (London : Thos. Murby). — " Elementary Text-book of 

 Physiography," by W. Mawer (London : J. Marshall & Co.). 

 " Report of the U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries fur 

 1885" (Washington: Government Printing Offices). — "British 

 Frogs and Toads," by Linnaeus Greening. — " Butanical Record 

 Club, Rept. for 1884, 1885, 1886."— " Trans. Royal Sue. U. S. 

 Wales." — " Journal of Conchology." — " Book Chat." — " Scrib- 

 ner's Monthly." — "The Amateur Photographer." — "The 

 Garner." — "The Naturalist." — "The Botanical Gazette." — 

 "Journal of the New York Microscopical Society." — " Bal- 

 gravia." — " The Gentleman's Magazine." — "American Monthly 

 Aiicroscopical Journal." — "The Essex Naturalist." — " Tne 

 Midland Naturalist." — " Feuilles des Jeunes Naturalistes." — 

 "The American Naturalist." — "Journal of Microscopy and 

 Nat. Sci " — "Scientific News." — "Wesley Naturalist.' — 

 "Naturalists' Monthly." — "La Science Illustre'e. — "Junior 

 Review, Science, Lit. & Art." 



Communications received up to the 13TH ult. from: 

 A. G. T.— W. B. G.—W. R. W.— P. B— C. R.— I. S.— 

 J. T. T. R— T. H.— J. G.— G. K. G.— F. H. A.— A. H.— 

 T. H. B.— J. A., jun— J. A. H.— W. T. P.— J. C.-G. B.— 

 J. 11.— J. H.— A. C. S.— Rev. H. F.— B. A. C.—J. J. H.— If. 

 — S. C— H. B.— F. S.— D. B.— H. O. H.— W. W.— J. H. G. 

 J. W. E.-G. E. E., jun. -J. E. B.— J. W.— B.— F. L. C— 

 \V. H.— W. E. C.-R. T.— C. R.— W. J.— J. T. F.— P. K.— 

 C. D.— F. L.— W. E. W.— C. L.— I. B.— R. F. G.—W. E. W. 

 — C. L W.-M. A. B.— F. R. F.-Z. W.— A. G. H.— 

 G. E. E., jun.— E. W.-N. L.-&C. 



