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Mr. Henry Waring Kidd, who wrote the article on 

 Fasciated Stems in Science-Gossip (vol. xix. pp. 196- 

 19S), these perfections never appeared at all. The 

 article was written by the nurse from dictation, and as 

 for his personal appearance, as his own relatives said, 

 it would frighten any lady. He was a confirmed 

 paralytic, hopped like the kangaroo and gesticulated 

 like the baboon, and had no acuteness of either sight 

 or hearing, I think ; and yet had he been alive, I am 

 almost sure he would have answered the query in 

 Science-Gossip in respect to the cherry-galls on 

 ground ivy, which are possibly those of Cecidomyia 

 bursaria (Entomologist's Annual for 1872). He 

 came however of a talented family. — A. H. Swinton. 



Field Vole. — This animal occasionally nests "in 

 crannies and holes of tree roots, and about hedge - 

 bottoms, but the most common locality in my 

 experience is a few inches below the surface in corn- 

 fields, &c. The occurrence described by Mr. Head 

 can scarcely be called unusual. — J. A. Wheldon. 



Galls on Ground Ivy. — If not too late, I should 

 like to see some of the galls mentioned by F. H. W. 

 (p. 213) ; I am forming a collection of galls for my 

 museum, and shall always be glad to have galls of 

 any kind. — S. L. Mosley, Beaumont Park Museum, 

 Huddersjield. 



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 ow: 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. 



F. W. H.— Get Staveley's *' British Insects." We know of 

 no popular elementary treatise on " Acari." See Mr. George's 

 papers on the subject in past vols, of Science-Gossip (illus- 

 trated). For Diptera, consult the British Museum Catalogues, 

 a'so numerous papers (illustrated) in past vols, of Science- 

 Gossip. 



Wm. R. — "The Naturalist" is the accredited monthly 

 journal of natural history for the north of England, and is 

 published monthly at Sunny Bank, Leeds, price (with 

 postage) jd. 



W. A. L. — We are open to accept good papers on the subject 

 you mention. 



A. Bates. — Your specimen is the female of the great saw- 

 fly {Sirex gigas). 



E. C. R- — You cannot do better than procure Sowerby's 

 "Grasses," with coloured plate of every species. Stark's 

 " British Mosses" would be the best for you. 



H. Smith. — See papers by the late Mr. J. F. Robinson on 

 "Notes for Science Classes," as to cutting and mounting 

 botanical objects, in Science-Gossip for 1883. 



T. Millie. — You can learn very much of astronomy indeed 

 without a teacher. Get " Planetary and Stellar Studies," by 

 J. E. Gore (London : Roper and Drowley), just published ; or 

 any of Mr. Proctor's works, star maps, &c. 



J. A. Hcgg.— The growth you enclosed is the gall of species 

 of Cecidomyia. 



C. Harris.— You cannot do better than take in the shilling 

 parts of the work now being issued by Messrs. Gurney and 

 Jackson (successors to Mr. Van Voorst), written by Mr. 

 Howard Saunders. It contains illustrations of nearly every 

 British species, with all the details you require. 



L. Kitching. — The fungus sent us is a species of the 

 " Birds' Nest fungus" (Nidularia). 



L. Allen.— We received your letter, but there was no plant 

 enclosed. 



G. O. Day. — Stainton's "Manual of the Sineina," 2 vols., 

 is the best yet out. Weare not aware that Newman ever 

 published on the micro-lepidoptera, beyond what you find in his 

 " Moths." 



T. F. Hall.— Mr. J. Sinel, St. Helier's, Jersey, would 

 doubtless be able to help you to the special kind of knowledge 

 you require. 



EXCHANGES. 



Dragonflies wanted, fresh and unset preferred. Lepid- 

 optera given in exchange.— W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, 

 Birmingham. 



European butterflies wanted. British Iepidoptera in return. 

 — W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, Birmingham. 



Offered. — Chalk and Thanet sand fossils. Wanted. 



Micro apparatus or material, slips preferred. — Chas. L. Neil, 

 Hamilton House, Goldsmith Gardens, Acton. 



Devonian corals (polished sections), unnamed. What offers 

 in micro apparatus ?— Chas. L. Neil, Hamilton House, Acton. 



For exchange. — Micro slides and botanical objects. Wanted, 

 natural history books, micro slides, or apparatus. — Ernest 0. 

 Meyers, Richmond House, Hounslow, W. 



Wanted, " Carpenter on the Microscope." Exchange 

 micro slides, land and freshwater shells, &c. — Ernest O. 

 Meyers, Richmond House, Hounslow, W. 



Exchange. — Bicycle, rear-driving safety, Premier pattern, 

 plated parts, balls, only once ridden. Offers, or would ex- 

 change for good double tricycle. — Chas. L. Neil, Hamilton 

 House, Acton, W. 



Offered. — "British Association Handbook," Manchester 

 (Nat. Hist. Antiquities and Industries), pp. 108. Exchange 

 for books, journals, or first-class slides (animal). — G. H. Bryan, 

 Chaucer Road, Cambridge. 



Will exchange " British Medical Journal," 5 vols, unbound, 

 from June 1883 to Dec. 1885, for books or periodicals, micro or 

 nat. hist, apparatus, or offers. — G. H. Bryan, Chaucer Road, 

 Cambridge. 



Marine algae from the N.E. coast of Scotland, and N.W. 

 coast of Ireland, in exchange for other marine algae, English or 

 foreign, mosses, lichens, or flowering plants. — E. M. Holmes, 

 Bradbourne Dene, Sevenoaks. 



Duplicates. — A. adippe, A. euphrosyne, A. selene, G. 

 rhaiuni, L. sinapis, H. thalassina, L. argiolus, T. rubi, 

 &c Desiderata, dragonflies. — W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, 

 Birmingham. 



Duplicates. — Helix virgata and H. caperata from Llan- 

 dudno, Calopteryx splendens, C. virgo, and other dragonflies. 

 Desiderata, dragonflies. — W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, Bir- 

 mingham. 



Dragonflies wanted from all parts of the British Isles, 

 fresh and unset preferred. Natural history books and speci- 

 mens offered in exchange. — W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, 

 Birmingham. 



Offered, gratis, to first applicant requiring same for school 

 museum, or similar object, a box of fossils and minerals (about 

 i cwt.), a few hundred British, and a few dozen foreign shells. 

 Recipient to pay carriage. — J. Sinel, Cleveland Road, Jersey. 



Wanted, to exchange British plants for herbarium. Offered, 

 rare duplicates, and a small collection of British lichens named 

 and collected by the late Wm. Gardiner, of Dundee. Lists 

 exchanged. — F. B. Webb, Church Terrace, Cheadle, Stafford- 

 shire. 



Will exchange Liassic fossils for British birds' eggs.— 

 W. D. Carr, Lincoln. 



Trigonia pulcliella from upper lias, in exchange for other 

 British trigonias. — W. D. Carr, Lincoln. 



Wanted, plants from the west and south of India. Send 

 lists to — E. de C. Crowcombe, Be;kenham, Kent. 



Lantern slides (photo micrographs) of insect, botanical, 

 and geological subjects, diatoms, &c., in exchange for micro 

 slides, &c. — W. D. Stewart, 2 Gilmore Terrace, Edinburgh. 



Will exchange vol. i. of "Science for All," bound, good as 

 new, for any of Darwin's works, or other science books. — 

 W. E. Rider, Parker Street, Cambridge. 



Shells: H. virgata and var. subinaritima, H. pisana; 

 desiderata very numerous. Land, freshwater, and marine 

 shells duplicates the following. Eggs: partridge, magpie, rook, 

 robin, willow warbler, whitethroat, missel thrush ; desiderata 

 very numerous. Insects : duplicates, amongst which are as 

 follows, lonicem bred, segetum, /estiva, Brunniz, and many 

 others ; desiderata very numerous, especially butterflies and 

 bombyces. — N. Hewett, 26 Clarence Street, York. 



For exchange. — Foreign marine, land and freshwater shells, 

 British birds' skins and eggs. Wanted.— -Eggs and nests, 

 foreign shells, British beetles, natural history books and 

 pamphlets. — J. T. T. Reed, Ryhope, Sunderland. 



North American land shells in exchange for any British 

 land and marine shells not in my collection. — Thos. W. Reader, 

 171 Hemingford Road, London, N. 



Good foreign stamps offered for shells, fossils, or micro 

 slides. — Thos. W. Reader, 171 Hemingford Road, London, N. 



To egg collectors. — Will exchange a few puffins' eggs, with 

 full data and side-blown, for others similarly blown. — D. 

 Dennett, 13 Fernbank Road, Bradford, Yorks. 



