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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



three objectives and other accessories, in mahogany case, all 

 in good preservation. Would like to exchange for a modern 

 serviceable microscope. — Ed. Lee, Havelock Cottage, Beach 

 Road, Jersey. 



Good exchange given for well-blown (side-blown) eggs. For 

 further particulars apply to — W. M. Roberts, F.Sc.S., Aber- 

 gynolwyn, R. S. O., Merionethshire, N.W. 



Wanted, "Entomologist," Nos. 102-190, 133, 194, 196, 197, 

 220-223 ; " Entomologist's Magazine," Nos. 49-55, inclusive. — 

 F. W. Frohawk, Balham, S.W. 



To Egg Collectors. — I have a few coloured plates'of egg of 

 great auk. — F. W. Frohawk, Balham, S.W. 



Wanted, British and foreign land and marine shells ; good 

 foreign stamps offered in exchange. — Thos. W. Reader, 171 

 Hemingford Road, London, N. 



Wanted, a number of glass-capped boxes suitable for 

 mounting delicate and small shells, &c. — Thos. W. Reader, 

 171 Hemingford Road, London, N. 



Science-Gossip for 1886 in publisher's covers; ditto 1887 in 

 half-calf, in perfect condition. What offers in photographic 

 apparatus? — Geo. Fell, jun., Aylesbury. 



Offered. — A good one-sixth objective, no° aperture, shows 

 beaded striae on Surirella gemma. Wanted. — Kiitzing's 

 "Species Algarum," and other works on algae. — T. H. Buff- 

 ham, Comely Bank Road. Walthamstow. 



Unmounted objects in exchange for other unmounted or 

 mounted objects. — Geo. T. Read, 87 Lordship Road, Stoke 

 Newington, N. 



Wanted, I-?, edition of J. G. Wood's " British Beetles." 

 Good exchange in micro-slides or unmounted objects. — Geo. T. 

 Read, 87 Lordship Road, Stoke Newington, N. 



Wanted, a good and strong hand magnifying glass, also a 

 flat micro aquarium ; will give well-mounted slides in exchange. 

 — A. E. Colman, 50 Elgin Crescent, Notting Hill, W. 



Sponge spicules (mounted) from carboniferous limestone, in 

 exchange for spicules or other fossils from other formations. — 

 E. Carrick, Sharon Street, Dairy, Ayrshire, N.B. 



Offered, "Universal Instructor," complete in 43 parts. 

 Wanted, Horace B. Woodward's "Geology of England and 

 Wales," 2nd edition. — J. Smith, Monkredding, Kilwinning. 



Quantity of books (miscellaneous) in exchange for natural 

 history books or specimens, or in part exchange for good 

 microscope. Lists sent. — D. Lea, Dragon House, Farnworth, 

 Widnes. 



Helix cartusiana wanted in exchange for good British land 

 and freshwater shells. — John R. B. Masefield, Rosehill, 

 Cheadle, Staffordshire. 



What offers for a duplicate volume of Science-Gossip for 

 1870, bound in the red paper (publisher's) binding? — E. H. 

 Wagstaff, 3 Waterworks Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. 



Offered, really good telescope (cost 10s. 6d.), in exchange 

 for good books. — Joe Bates, 20 Lord Street, Burnley. 



Wanted, "Mounting and Preparing Objects" (Davies) ; 

 "Pond Life" (Slack): "Hogg on the Microscope;" Huxley's 

 " Biology." Will exchange scientific and educational works and 

 fossils. — Jno. Eyre, 4 Render Street, New Cross, S.E. 

 2 Genuine worked flints from Thames valley gravels; skull, 

 dress, &c, of New Guinea native ; skull of fallow deer ; vols. 

 of Science-Gossip, " Entomologist," and other good books, in 

 exchange for micro-section cuttings, mounting apparatus, and 

 dissecting instruments. — H. E. Quilter, 4 Cedar Road, Leicester. 



Vol. I. of "Comparative Embryology," by F. M. Balfour, 

 wanted. — H. E. Quilter, 4 Cedar Road, Leicester. 



Advertiser, going to Australia, wishes to dispose of his 

 collection of micro-slides. What offers? — Arthur Downes, 

 5 Royal Park Road, Clifton, Bristol. 



Six dozen micro objects, well mounted on ground-edge slides, 

 some professionally. Entomological books or apparatus re- 

 quired, or offers.— A. Draper, 179 Cemetery Road, Sheffield. 



I will give two polished sections of unnamed and unlocalised 

 Devonian fossil corals, for one specimen of any unpolished 

 named and localised corals, except Fenestella rett/ormis, carb. 

 and Lithostrotion junceum, carb. — Ernest O. Meyers, Rich- 

 mond House, Hounslow, W. 



Hawkins, "Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri," folio, 30 plates, 

 1840. What offers in books?— P. Payne, Free Library, Hinckley. 



H. cantiana and H. virgata in exchange for species of 

 Vertigo and Pupa.— Chas. A. Whatmore, Ranelagh Road, 

 Wolverhampton. 



For exchange, a collection of about 1500 to 2000 fossils; 

 also Science-Gossip (unbound), 1882-18S5, inclusive. — J. A. 

 Floyd, 15 Hospital Road, Bury St. Edmunds. 



Offered, Science-Gossip from 1880 to 1887 (March parts 

 for 1880 and 1885, and one coloured plate for 1884 wanting). 

 Wanted, M 'Coy's " Prodromus of the Palaeontology of Victoria," 

 decades I. VII. — J. Smith, Monkredding, Kilwinning. 



Offered, Brachiopods and other carboniferous fossils. 

 Wanted, fossils from other formations.— J. A. Hargreaves, 

 Charlestown, Shipley, Yorkshire. 



Wanted, all or any of Darwin's works ; other books in 

 exchange. List sent on application.— Miss C. Leigh, Stone- 

 leigh Abbey, Kenilworth. 



Specimens of minerals (40) in exchange for Darwin's 

 ' Descent of Man," and the "Origin of Species." Also 

 minerals and fossils (chalk and coal measures) in exchange for 



mounted micro objects. — A. Richardson, 39 Edithna Street, 

 Stockwell, London, S.W. 



Duplicates. — U. pictorum, D. polymorplia, B. leachii, 

 P. corneus, P. vortex, P. spirorbis, L. stagnalis, L. peregra, 

 var. ovata, H. pisatia. Wanted, P. roseum, U. tumidus, P. 

 carinatus, V. pellucida, Z. ful-jus, H. lapicida, H. obvoluta. 

 — Henry C. Langdon, 4 Castle Down, Hastings, Sussex. 



P. glaber for any other land and freshwater shells. — T. Ing- 

 ham, 3 Railway Street, Darwen Terrace, Blackpool. 



British land, freshwater, and marine shells, in exchange for 

 any book or pamphlet by John Ruskin. — S. C. Cockerel!, 

 5 Priory Road, Bedford Park, Chiswick, W. 



Wanted, Helix hortensis and H. nemoralis from all parts 

 of the British Isles.— Rev. J. W. Horsley, The Avenue, Bed- 

 ford Park, Chiswick. 



Wanted, exotic Lepidoptera and other insects ; brilliant 

 ones preferred. Microscopic objects offered in exchange. — 

 J. W. Neville, Wellington Road, Handsworth, Birmingham. 



Dragon-flies wanted from all parts of the British Isles, for 

 purpose of working up geographical distribution ; Lepidoptera 

 offered in return. — \V. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, Birmingham. 



Dragon-flies wanted. Offered, A. adippe, G. rhamni, 

 I. bat is, L. argiohts, L. irretata, A. nebulosa, and many 

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



Wanted, micro-slides (especially botanical) in exchange for 

 back numbers of "Popular Science Monthly," "Science Re- 

 view," Science-Gossip, &c. ; also D or C eye-piece wanted in 

 exchange for A — difference arranged. — P., 80 Leathwaite Road, 

 Clapham Common, London, S.W. 



Botanist (young) desires a fellow one to accompany him on 

 a collecting tour in beginning of July. — H. J., 69 Ramsden 

 Road, Balham, London, S.W. 



Wanted, numbers of Science-Gossip for 1883,- except those 

 of October and December. State desiderata. — A. G. H., 10 

 St. John's Hill, S.W. 



What offers in old volumes of Science-Gossip, micro-slides 

 of pond life or rock sections, for volumes of " Great Thoughts," 

 " Cassell's Saturday Journal," a quantity of old " Graphics," 

 and other magazines ? — A. G. H., 10 St. John's Hill, S.W. 



For exchange. — Science-Gossip, 1S75-8, blue cloth, and 

 thirty odd numbers; "British Butterflies," " Moths," "Ento- 

 mology" (Kirby Spence), calf, gilt letters and edges, new; 

 " Life of an Insect," 2 vols. ; "Alphabet of Insects" (J. Rennie) ; 

 "Insects" vol. of "Jardine's Naturalist's Library," coloured 

 plates. — R. J. Warner, 80 Netherwood Road, Hammersmith. 



"Illustrations of the Linnsan Orders of Insects" (W. 

 Wood), 1821, 2 vols., 35 coloured plates, valued by "Bazaar" 

 at 21s. Exchange for books on chess or singing, or anything 

 useful. — R. J. Warner, 80 Netherwood Road, Hammersmith. 



Offered, two years of "Knowledge," 1885-6, unbound; 

 Muspratt's "Chemistry," unbound (incomplete). Wanted, 

 works on dyeing. — Sellers, Deepdale, Davenport Park, Stock- 

 port. 



For exchange, a number of Cambrian, Silurian, Devonian, 

 and Oligocene fossils; also M'Alpine's "Zoological Atlas of" 

 Vertebrates" (249 figures), -and "Zoological Atlas of Inverte- 

 brates" (231 figures). Wanted, Wood's or Duncan's "Natural 

 History ;" also fossils from formations other than the above, 

 land and freshwater shells or micro-slides. — Theo. T. Groom, 

 St. John's College, Cambridge. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 

 "Illustrated Manual of British Birds," Part I., by Howard 

 Saunders. — " Trans. Leeds Geol. Association." — " Practical 

 Geography for Schools," by Alfred Hughes (Oxford : Clarendon 

 Press).—" The Story of Creation," by Ed. Clodd (London : 

 Longmans). — Cassell's "Technical Educator," Part II. — "The 

 Microscope." — "Journal of Conchology." — "Book Chat." — 

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

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

 "The West American Scientist."— " Belgravia." — " The 

 Gentleman's Magazine."— "American Monthly Microscopical 

 Journal." — "The Essex Naturalist." — "The Midland Natu- 

 ralist."—" Feuilles des Jeunes Naturalistes." — " The American 

 Naturalist." — " Journal of Microscopy and Nat. Science."— 

 "Scientific News." — " Wesley Naturalist." — " Naturalists' 

 Monthly." — " La Science Ulustree," &c, &c. 



Communications received up to the 14TH ult. from ■ 

 F. G. A. B.— W. H. H.— R. F.— A. G. H.— M. G. S.T.— S. H. 

 —A. P.— J. H. H.— R.— H. F. R.— J. L. S.— J. E. N. B.— 



F. C— A. T.— W— R. G— H. E. V.— G. T. P.— C. S. L — 



G. H. W.— A. C. C— A. H. S.— G. P. S.— S.-S. S. A.— 

 G. L. A.— H. W.— G. J. -J. B.— G. R.— P.-W. H. L.— 

 G. W.— J. A., jun.— R. H. N. B.— J. C.— J. L.— W. S.— 

 W. E. C— E. L.— W. M.— A. G. T. G. T, jun.— J. S. 

 — E. C— A E. C— E. S.— I. H. B.— G. W. D.— G. T. R.— 

 D. L — I. W. R— J. W. F.— J. R. B. M.— E. H. W.— 

 W. M. R.— J. R.— E. O. M.— P. F. G.— A. D.— H. G.— 

 J. W. N.— W. H. B.— H. C. L.— R. C H.— P. P.— C- A. W. 

 —J. A. F.— J. W. H.-S. C. C.—J. A. H.— A. R— 

 C. L.— A. D.— H. E. Q.— P. K.— H. T.— I. I. G— J. C. E.— 

 W. G.— I. S.— A. B.-S.-T. D. A. C— M. E. S.— R. J. W. 

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