HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



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jV. pictorum (4I inches), and many other land and freshwater 

 shells. — W. A. Gain, Tuxford, Newark. 



Science-Gossip, from 1868-87, inclusive, handsomely bound, 

 ten vols, perfect. What offers in microscopic accessories, a 

 good objective preferred?— G. Horn, 57 Bell Street, Calton, 

 Glasgow. 



For exchange, V. piscinalis, P. albus, P. eorneus, P. 

 spirorbis, P. glabcr, L. truncatula, H. sericca, &c. Wanted, 

 H '. hortcnsis, var. incarnata, and varieties of H. virgata and 

 ericetorum. — F. C. Long, 8 Cog Lane, Burnley, Lanes. 



Wanted, Isocardia cor, and Cardium norvegicum. Land 

 and freshwater shells given in exchange, many rare. — F. C. 

 Long, 8 Cog Lane, Burnley, Lanes. 



Wanted, a few dozen Argulus foliaccus (parasite of pike, 

 trout, &c), in exchange for good slides, and marine specimens 

 in any section. — J. Sinel, Cleveland Road, Jersey. 



Duplicates. — L. icarus, P. chi, P. gamma, L. dispar. 

 Desiderata numerous. — W. Turnbull, 1 Horm Terrace, View- 

 fourth, Fdinburgh. 



Fine specimens of foreign shells — helix, mya, clausilia, 

 tellina, venus, cardium, anodon, pecten, bulla, pupa, cyclo- 

 stoma, haliotis, turbo, nerita, ampullaria, harpa, fusus, cyprasa, 

 conus and others, offered for others not in collection ; Aus- 

 tralian shells wanted. Foreign and Colonial correspondence 

 invited. — Dr. Reed, jun., Ryhupe, Sunderland. 



Wanted, leaf stick and moss insects, pterochroza, kallima, 

 phyllium, phasmidae, &c. ; trap-door spiders and nests, ant 

 lion (myrmeleon) larvae. State desiderata. — Mark L. Sykes, 

 New Lane, Winton, near Manchester. 



PL dila'atus and Sph. ovale, from new Lancashire locality, 

 and other land and freshwater shells to exchange. Desiderata 

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

 Preston. 



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

 Send lists. — J. Smith, Monkredding, Kilwinning. 



Wanted, a polished pine tray cabinet, for micro slide. Will 

 give twenty-four well-mounted slides in exchange, including 

 foraminifera, spicules, plant seeds, scales of fish, plants, &c. 

 — George T. Reed, 87 Lordship Road, Stoke Newington, 

 London, N. 



Exotic butterflies, duplicates : Pap. sinon, agestor, epycides, 

 Paris, vernalis (.new species), M. adonis, &c. ; also wings of 

 inorphos and uranias. Special desiderata, Pap. ascanius (Rio), 

 tuontrouzieri, dwdalus, criuo, arjnna, &c. — Hudson, Railway 

 Terrace, Cross Lane, Manche-ter. 



Wanted, dentalium and entale ; will exchange for either 

 marine or land and Ireshwater shells, also curios and memorial 

 brass rubbings. Will send list. Other eggs than birds' wanted. 

 — Archibald Hy. McBean, S. Denys, Southampton. 



Helix arbustorum and H. hortensis in exchange for marine 

 shells. — Robert Walton, 44 Canning Street, Burnley. 



Micro mounts in exchange for crystalline rocks or minerals. 

 — J. H. Lewis, F.L.S., 145 Windsor Street, Liverpool. 



Conchologv. — About 400 specimens of Unto tumidus, U. 

 J>ictorum, and Anodonta cygnea, and numerous varieties of 

 helices, offered in exchange for antiquarian books or pamphlets 

 relating to Yorkshire, or old Yorkshire newspapers published 

 before 1820. — Geo. Roberts, Lofthouse, Wakefield. 



Wanted, Bythinia leachii, Helix Cantiana, and H. car- 

 tusiana, for other land and freshwater shells. — John Radcliffe, 

 11 Oxford Street, Ashton-under-Lync, Lancashire. 



Ordkal bark of New Guinea, ordeal beans ot Calabar, kava 

 kava, mate, tappa cloth, and henna, in exchange for lepid- 

 optera in any stage. — Tunley, Powerscourt Road, Landport. 



Exchange. — Withering's " British Plants," 14th ed., 1877, 

 for any similar work or flora. — B. Prosser, 7 Coronation Road, 

 Bristol. 



Wanted, British and foreign ova and pupae, also foreign 

 correspondence. — H. W. Head, Norwood Street, Scarborough. 



Upwards of 400 numbers of "Band of Hope Review," in 

 fair condition ; would make a good volume, if bound together, 

 of interesting reading. Will exchange for rare foreign stamps : 

 list preferred. — A. J. R. Sclater, M.C.S., Bank Street, Teign- 

 mouth. 



Solecurtus a?itiquattts, Thracia pubescens, Solen vagina, 

 Saxicava Xorvegica, Phola Candida, P. crispata, Pholadidea 

 papyracea, Xylophaga dorsnlis, Mya arenaria, Diplodonta 

 rotnndata, Pecten glabcr ( Tigrinus), Pinna rudis, P.pectinata, 

 Pandora ina>quivalvis, P. v. obtusa, Lima loscombii, L. 

 subauriculata, Venus chione, V. casina, Donax vittatus, 

 and Isocardia cor, wanted in exchange for fossils, minerals, 

 polished specimens of Devonian corals and sponges, and other 

 British shells.— A. J. R. Sclater, M.C.S., Bank Street, Teign- 

 mouth. 



Specimens of rocks (150), mostly metamorphic, from eastern 

 Perthshire, collection of nodules from post-glacial clay, and a 

 few old red sandstone fossils, in exchange lor modern works on 

 geology. — John Smith, Kirtrench, Meigte, Peithshire. 



Offered. — "Longman's Magazine" for 1887-8, "English 

 Illustrated Magazine" for 1888, "Welcome" for 1888, all 

 complete; "Walden," "Leaves from a Naturalist's Note- 

 book," by Dr. A. Wilson; "Half-Hours in Green Lanes," by 

 Dr. Taylor; "Electricity and its Uses," by C. E. Munroe ; 

 Liassic and other fossils offered for exchange.— John Hawell, 

 Ingleby Greenhow Vicarage, Northallerton. 



The first six parts of " Naturalist's Monthly." Wanted. — 

 Briti-h birds' nests and eggs, and British and foreign species of 

 unionidx. — J. R. Fitzgerald, Clifford House, Harrogate. 



Wanted, grasshoppers, locusts, earwigs, cockroaches and 

 crickets (British and European). Offered, lepidoptera, marine, 

 land and freshwater shells, star-fishes, sea-urchins, algas dragon- 

 flier, natural history books and pamphlets, &c. — W. Harcourt 

 Bath, Ladywood, Birmingham. 



Wanted, Biitishand European dragonflies, European butter- 

 flies, and land shells. Offered, same as above. — W. Harcourt 

 Bath, Ladywood, Birmingham. 



Cabinet to dispose of, twelve cases, each 24 X 16 X 2 in., 

 with glass, varnished, black knobs, quite new ; what offers? — 

 W. Harcourt Bath, Ladywood, Birmingham. 



Wanted, a well-set specimen of a hornet [Vespa crabro), in 

 good condition, in exchange for good specimens of British 

 land and freshwater shells, or unmounted specimens for micro- 

 scope, &c. — J. R. P. Masefield, Rosehill, Chcadle, Stafford- 

 shire. 



Books wanted. — Kingsley's "Town Geology," any of Rus- 

 kin's works, " Grevillea," Nos. 2, 4 and 6, or vol. i., 1872, 

 and "Journal of Botany" for April 1888. Will give good 

 exchange in mounted diatoms. — J. B. Bessell, 8 Elmgrove 

 Road, Bristol. 



Wanted, to exchange good micro slides for others. Lists 

 exchanged. — Suter, 5 Highweek Road, Tottenham. 



Wanted, rare British shells ; foreign specimens offered in 

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



Land and marine shells from Gibraltar and Tangier, and 

 freshwater shells from the Engadine, wanted to exchange for 

 British marine, or any foreign shells not in collection. Lists 

 exchanged.— F. W., Drapers' College, Tottenham. 



Engadine butterflies offered in exchange for any shells not 

 in collection. — F. W., Drapers' College, Tottenham. 



Offered. — Howitt's "Book of the Seasons," Ordoyno's 

 "Nottinghamshire Flora," parts 1-33, and Cassell's "Familiar 

 Wild Flowers." Having duplicates of these, I should like to 

 exchange for other natural history works or specimens, espe- 

 cially entomological, or works on angling. — H. Fisher, 26 Stod- 

 man Street, Newark, Notts. 



Wanted, to exchange British dried plants for North or 

 South American, or Australian. Printed list sent on receipt of 

 address. — H. Fisher, 26 Stodman Street, Newark, Notts. 



Science-Gossip for 1885-6 (unbound), complete, in exchange 

 for Wallace's "Canary Book," Green's "Birds I have Kept," 

 aid Arnold's "Bird Life in England," or offers. — R. Finn, 

 2 Archcliffe Road, Dover. 



Wanted, perfect and in fair condition, Aaron Penley's 

 " English School of Painting in., Water Colours," published by 

 Leighton Brothers, in exchange for good British land and 

 freshwater shells, fossils or plants. — E. R. F., 82 Abbey Street, 

 Faversham. 



Wan 1 ed, good dissections, well displayed, in either glycerine 

 or spirit, of the reproductive organs, of Helix pulcltclla, his- 

 pida, fusca and reve/ata. State desiderata. — W. E. Collinge, 

 20 Blenheim Place, Leeds. 



Wanted, any literature (American, German, &c), having 

 reference to the dans of the helicidx : can offer in exchange 

 Flower's "Osteology of the Mammalia," Lyell's "Students' 

 Elements of Geology," Juke's "Geology," "Observations on 

 the genus Unio," by Isaac Lea, with 28 coloured plates, Klein's 

 " Elements of Histology," and eight bound vols, of Science- 

 Gossip, &c. — W. E. Collinge, 20 Blenheim Place, Leeds. 



Helix ritpcstris, showing that this species is ovo-viviparous, 

 with young in situ, offered for Testacellas, S. oblonga, H. ob- 

 voluta, V. Moulinsiana, tumida, augustior or Acme lineata.— 

 Edward Collier, 74 Yurburgh Street, Moss Side, Manchester. 



Zonitcs glabcr, fulvus, H. aculeata, aspersa, rufescens, 

 sericca, ericetorum, var. minor, rupestris, lapicida. B. acutus, 

 var. bizona, B. perversa, C. rugosa, var. dubia, C. tridens, 

 S. vivicola, P. amnicum, A. anatina, P. dilatatus, &c. &c, 

 offered for S. ovale, P. roseum, U. margaritifer, B. leachii, 

 L. glutinosa, glabra, Z. radiatulus, nitidus, H. revelata, 

 fusca, pygmcea, B. monianus, P. rtngens, &c. &c, or any 

 named vars. of the commoner species. Send list to — Edward 

 Collier, 74 Yurburgh Street, Moss Side, Manchester. 



Wanted, works on geology; palaeontology, and mineralogy, 

 also magazines and proceedings, any date, in exchange for 

 micro-rock and mineral sections, &c. — J. G. Dufty, 140 Devon- 

 shire Street, Sheffield. 



Duplicate rock sections. What offers in rocks, fossils or 

 minerals? — J. G. Dufty, 146 Devonshire Street, Sheffield. 



Offered, fine collections of clausilia and foreign mironidae ; 

 unacceptable offers of exchange not replied. — Miss F. M. Hele, 

 Fairlight, Elmgrove Road, Cotham, Bristol. 



A gentleman returning to America has a most perfect black 

 flint arrow-head, found by himself in Utah, U.S.A.; very 

 valuable. Also some beautiful specimens of rich silver ore. 

 What offers or exchange? — E. Cavan-Dance, Glencora, Lome 

 Park, Bournemouth. 



Wantkd, H. hortensis, and vars. lilicina and subalbida, 

 also vars. of H. ncmoralis and clausilia. Offered, Z. alharius, 

 H. pisana, cartusiaua, lapicida, virgata, capcrata, and 

 "Journal of Conchology " for 1878. — Thos. H. Hedworth, 

 Dunston, Gateshead. 



