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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Duplicates.—/!, adippe, A. fiaphia, A. eup/irosyne, A. 

 selaie, G. rhamni, V. atalanta, V. urttca, P. fhlaus, H. 

 sylvams, H. lined, H. alveolus, &c. Desiderata dragonflies 

 from all parts of the British Isles.-W. Harcourt Bath, Lady- 

 wood, Birmingham. ... <■„, 



Natural history specimens and books given in return !or 

 dragonflies, set or unset.-W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, 



Wanted at once, mounted microscopic sides, longitudinal 

 and transverse sections of Ruscus aculeatus (butcher s broom). 

 Send particulars, &C, to-Miss Cates, 17 Budock Terrace, 



West Indian and West African specimens, about sixty 

 kinds, mostly in glass-top boxes, including various seeds, shell-, 

 sugar cane, &c. ; also snake in spirits suitable lor e*h.b,t.on or 

 private collection. What offers? Safety bicycle wanted, good 

 ma ke.-W. Pix, 167 St. Thomas' Road, i insbury Park, London. 



Natural history books in exchange for microscopic slides 

 or cabinet. Microscopic slides for exchange.— S. Harrison, 

 Dalmain Road, Forest Hill. -sri,-, 



Wanted, dentalium and entale. Will exchange for either 

 marine or land and fre-hwater shells; also curios and memorial 

 brass rubbings in exchange for eggs, other than birds.— 

 Archibald Hy. McBean. S. Denys, Southampton. 



Offered, cone in cone. Wanted, shells, recent and fossil. 

 c end lists.— J. Smith, Monkredding, Kilwinning. 



PI dilatatus and Sp/i. ovale from new Lancashire locality, 

 and other land and freshwater shells to exchange Desiderata 

 numerous. -T. M. Harvard, 41 Union Street, Leyland, near 



^Ve°riigo pusilla, Zon. fulvus, H. fusca, and H. aculeata, 

 offered in exchange for H. camellata, S. oblonga, V.tumtda, 

 alpestris, substriata, or angustior.—R. Standen, bwinton, 

 Manchester. . ., ., 



Wanted.— Living and mature specimens of Zon. nitiaus, 

 Zon. excavatus, and H. pisana-a. quantity required for 

 direction. Good British land and freshwater shells offered in 

 return.— R. Standen, Sainton, Manchester. 



Wanted, Huxley on " Crayfish," Lubbock on Ants, Bees, 

 and Wasps," Cooke on "Fungi," all in the International 

 Science Series— must be cheap and in fair condition.— Cnas. 

 A. Whatmore, Much Marcle, Gloster. 



Will exchange Newman's edition of Montagu s Ornitho- 

 logical Dictionary" for Rye's " British Beetles, m good 

 condition.— William Jeffery, Ratham, Chichester. 



Exotic butterflies. Duplicates: Pap. Sinon, Agestor, 

 Efiycides, Paris, vernalis (new species), M. adorns, lVc. ; also 

 wings of morphos and urania<=. Special desiderata: Pap. 

 ascanius (Rio), Montrouzieri, Dadalus, Crino Arjuna, 6cc. 

 —Hudson, Railway Terrace, Cross Lane, Manchester. 



Choice Wenlock limestone, and other good fossils, in ex- 

 change for scientific books, chalk fossils, or offer-.— A. Y. 

 Ovant, " Cottesville," St. Oswald's Road, Small Heath, 

 Birmingham. , . , 



For exchange, eggs of cuckoo, kingfisher, ptarmigan wood- 

 cock, goldfinch, dunlon, hawfinch, and many others in clutches 

 or separate. Wanted, one-holed eggs of the common British 

 birds.— las. Ellison, Steeton, Leeds. 



Back numbers of the "Entomologist;' also a variety of 

 moths, ova of aneularia, in exchange for roots of orchis or sea 

 anemones, &C-H. Sharp, 23 Union Street, Langham Place, 

 London, W. . . , c 



Fossils from all British formations wanted, in exchange for 

 fossils, minerals, shells, &C— John Hawell, M.A., Ingleby 

 Greenhow Vicarage, Northallerton. _ 



For exchange, scientific and philosophical books ; also a 

 small collection of minerals and rocks. Offers solicited in 

 recent shells.— Miss Linter, Arragon Clo-e, Twickenham. _ 



Offered, the following micro slides, Watson s mounts, viz. 

 "anchors and plates of synapta" (arranged), group ot 

 diatomaceae, actinocyclus, ralfsii," "foram.n.fera from Adriatic 

 Sea," and " Selenite, blue and yellow ;" also a Malt wood s 

 finder in case. Wanted, orieinal Jubilee sixpences.— W. Mathie, 

 10 Queen Mary Avenue, Crosshill, Glasgow. • • r 



A few natural history specimens preserved in spirit, from 

 South Africa, including chameleon, lizard, locust, caterpillar, 

 &c. Exchange as above, or offers. -W. Mathie, 10 Queen 

 Mary Avenue, Crosshill, Glasgow. ««■•, 



Cassell's " Popular Educator," 3 vols. ; Cassell's Miniature 

 Poets," 16 vols.; Cassell's "Franco-Prussian War," a vols.; 

 Dr. Karl Russ on "The Speaking Parrots;" McKendrick s 

 "Outlines of Physiology;" album containing eighty-eight 

 portraits of actors, actresses, &C, and lot of miscellaneous 

 music fur violin, piano, harmonium, &C. What offers ?-W. 

 Mathie, 10 Queen Mary Avenue, Crosshill, Glasgow. 



Micro slides for exchange. Wanted, fossil- minerals, or 

 books on natural history.— ErnestO. Mejers, Richmond House, 



Hounslow, W. . . . „ r>i 1 



Wanted, Hobkirk's "Synopsis of British Mosses, _' Plues 

 " British Grasses," " Outlines of British Fungoloey, Leightons 

 "Lichen Flora of Great Britain, Ireland, ai d Channel Isles, 

 Tripp's "British Mosses," and others. Also Lolium temu- 

 lentunt, Linn., and all other grammes from all parts of the 

 British Isles. Micro slides in exchange.— Ernest O. Meyers, 

 Richmond House, Hounslow, W. 



For exchange, Hamblin Smith's "Study of Heat" and 

 Gill's " Chemistry for Schools."— Ernest 0. Meyers, Richmond 

 House, Hounslow, W. 



T. captd-serpentis (attached), Cr. anomala (on stones), f. 

 ■j-radiatus, Lima elliptica and subaurkulata, A uc. mtida and 

 tenuis, Leda pygmaa and minuta. Luc. spimfera, Ax.Jerru- 

 ginosus, Ast. sulcata and triangularis, S. siltqua, V. arcuata 

 ,61 inches), Th. prat amis. Dent, cutahs (live;, fr. mille- 

 granus [smzU), Trick, borealis, in exchange for other British 

 marine species not in collection.— A. Somerville, 34 Oranby 

 Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow. . 



Helix Minoricensis, Helix lactea, Helix argia. Clausilia. 

 bidens, var. virgata, Clausilia dubia, var. Suttoui, Bulimus 

 decollatus, Vertigo minutissima, and some other species, in 

 exchange for Testacella, the pink African var. of Helix pisana, 

 and other interesting variations of British species, or shall be 

 glad to send specimens to any requiring them, as long as the 

 stock holds out.-Jno. W. Taylor, Outwood Lane, Horsforth, 



near Leed-. . . _ . . , _ ., ,, u- v,.,',. 



Wanted, Baily's " Characteristic British Fossils, Bigsby s 

 "Thesaurus Devonico-Carboniferus, and Nicholsons Pale- 

 ontology," new ed.-F. C. King, Bank Villa, Fulwood, Preston. 



Wanted, Science-Gossip, Nos. 52, 59, 60, 68-70, 89, 97- 

 108.- F. C. King, Bank Villa, Fulwood, Preston. 



Offered, Science-Gossip for 1867, 1876-79, and several 

 odd numbers, in exchange for British marine shells, fossils, 

 minerals, &C.-F. C. King, Bank Villa Fulwood Preston. 



Wanted Helix nemoralis and H. hortensis from all parts 

 of the country. Offered, H. Carthusiana, H. Cantiana, 

 H. cricetorum, H. lapkida, H. arbustorum H caperata, 

 Bui. obscurus, and var. alba, &c— Rev. J. W. Horsley, The 

 Avenue, Bedford Park, Chiswick. 



A complete set of reagents and apparatus for qualitative 

 analysis, and Valentin's" Qualitative Analysis" (latest edition). 

 Particulars on application. A good microscope wanted — 

 Casteel, i5 K.nnington Grove, Upper Kennington Lane, b.*,. 



Darts of several species of helix offered for British and 

 foreign land and freshwater shells.— W. H. Heathcote, M.C.b., 

 East View, Preston. . . 



Offered, darts of Helix aspersa, nemoralis nortensis 



caperata, &c. Desiderata L -J^ uia ^ e% '^\ sp ^' e r %° f 

 vertigos' Acme lineata, &C.-W. Hy. Heathcote, M.C.S., 



East View, Preston. . 



Marine shells.-r Pecten tignnus, Mya armaria, Tectura 



testudinalis, Trophon truncatus, Fusus gracilis. Wanted, 

 other duplicates in exchange, or birds' eggs.— A. Kelly, 5 Canal 

 Lane, Aberdeen, N.B. . , 



A NUMBER of well-mounted and interesting botanical and 

 entomological slides in exchange for any of the recent bio- 

 logical and botanical works, Huxley and Martin, &c. ; a violm 

 also wanted.-J. C. Blackshaw, 4 Ranelagh Road, Wolver- 



Wa™ed, ' inch objective to fit Crouch's educational micro- 

 scrope; also Peter Gray's " Fungi and Lichens Swan Son- 

 nenschein).-Chas. A. Whatmore, Much Marcle, Gloster. 



Wanted, books on botany, or volumes of Science-LiOSSIp 

 prior to 1886 ; good microscopic slides in exchange.— J. Collins, 

 23 Roland Road, Lozells, Birmingham. 



Wanted, two or three gross of unmounted micro photos, 

 also superior microscopic slides.— R. Suter, 5 Highweek Road, 



Tottenham. ... n -j 



Wanted, pupae or imagos of the larger species of lepidoptera, 

 also some suitable for a beginner; will give in exchange a 

 book-pattern store-box 14 in. by 10 in., corked and papered, 

 quite new.-R. Laddiman. Upper Hellesdon, Norwich. 



Wanted, diurnal lepidoptera from all parts_ of the world. 

 Foreign shells and British birds' skins offered in exchange.— 

 J. T. T. Reed, Ryhope, Sunderland. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" The Senses of Animals," by Sir John Lubbock (London : 

 Kezan Paul & Co.)— " The Star Atlas," translated from the 

 German of Dr. H. ]. Klein, by Rev. E. McClure (London: 

 S. P. C. K) — "Quarterly Journal Royal Microscopical 

 Society," &c. &.c. 



Communications received up to the 13TH ult. from : 

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 T h'f -R-A S -M S P.-L. I. G.-R. D. P.-W. P. W. 

 J 'R'S -^'T R -C W-B. B. L. T.-G. C-H. W. M.- 

 C A W -T C B.-A. K.-W. H. H.-R. J. H.-W. A. F.- 

 F W C-H E-H. G. D.-J. B. B. M.-C.-R. M. A.- 

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 a a B -W P-G. V. C—S. H.-A. H. Mc. B.-I. S.- 

 T. M. H.-1 S.-C. A. W.-W J-.H -A T. O -U M. 

 T r _w T — T H. A. H.— J. E.— F. N.— L.— H. b.— J. H. 

 Z E O M-j W. T.-J. H.-F. C. K.-F. A. P.-W. I. S. 

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F. P.' P.-T. D. A C.-G. F. R.-G. D.-W. P. H.-J. H. W., 



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