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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Exchange. — 3 vols, of Science-Gossip, 1875, 1876, 1887 

 4 nos. missing ; 8 nos. " Monthly Microscopical Journal," 1874 '• 

 6 nos. "The Annals and Mag. Natural History," also vol. for 

 1874, complete, with plates; vol. i. "The Naturalist ' (1851), 

 and a few others. Wanted, a youth's portable microscope, 

 microscopical mounting apparatus, photographic outfit, or offers. 

 — James B. Beckett, Trinity Place, Friars Lane, Great Yar- 

 mouth. 



What offers for a collection of British marine, land and 

 freshwater shells (named), over 70 species. — James B. Beckett, 

 Trinity Place, Friars Lane, Great Yarmouth. 



Wanted, micro material in exchange for micro slides. — 

 Ernest O. Meyers, Richmond House, Hounslow, W. 



Wanted, L. involuta, P. roseum, T. haliotidea, S. zurescens, 

 S. oblonga, 2 ' . radiabulus, H. pygmaa, H. obvoluta, B. mon- 

 tanus, Vertigoes, A. lineata, in exchange for fossils, shell-, &c. 

 — John Hawell, M.A., Ingleby Greenhow Vicarage, North- 

 allerton. 



Wanted, micro slides. Offered, air-pump with bell glass, 

 also cyclostyle apparatus for printing circulars, lists, &c, both 

 new. — Henry Ebbage, 344 Caledonian Road, London. 



Exchange, 4-plate camera, long focus, universal swing, and 

 all the latest improvements, and three double backs ; will 

 exchange for piano. — W. Shead, 2 St. Andrew's Road, Higham 

 Hill, W althamttow. 



Slugs wanted (living) from all parts of the country, in 

 exchange for land and freshwater shells. — F. G. Fenn, Syon 

 Lodge, Isleworth. 



British shells. — Duplicates of over 100 species of land, 

 freshwater and marine for exchange, many uncommon. Lists 

 exchanged. — J. W. Cundall, Carrville, Redland, Bristol. 



Wanted, well-mounted botanical and histological micro 

 slides; will give in exchange excellent named specimens of the 

 rarer musci and hepaticae. — William Smith, 6 Addison Place, 

 Arbroath, N.B. 



Foreign lepidoptera wanted ; British lepidoptera, shells, 

 minerals and fossils offered in exchange. Correspondence 

 invited. — A. H. Shepherd, 70 Brecknock Road, London, N. 



Wanted, rock and stock doves (C. livia and anas'), skins or 

 in flesh. Offered, "Naturalist's World" for 1884-5, two bound 

 vols., nearly new.— J. H. K., 18 Church Street, Commercial 

 Street, E. 



Wanted, a good histological microscope, with or without 

 objectives. Give particulars. — Frank L. Tanner, Waterloo 

 Place, Oxford Road, Manchester. 



Offered, British zoophytes and marine shells. Wanted, 

 zoophytes, land, freshwater and marine shells. — J. Simpson, 

 51 Lock Street, Aberdeen, N.B. 



Leiidopteka, well set and in good condition, also about 

 1000 duplicate stamps, in exchange for other stamps, in order 

 to increase a collection of 4000 varieties. — H. C. Lilley, Lincoln 

 Road East, Peterborough. 



Wanted, Grant Allen " On the Colour of Flowers," second- 

 hand, in fair condition. — Chas. A. Whatmore, Much Marcle, 

 Gloster. 



Wanted, pups or imagos of American silk-producing bom- 

 byces, and other lepidoptera. I shall be pleased to hear from 

 any American entomologist who would be willing to exchange 

 American insects for British. — Robt. Laddiman, Upper Hel- 

 lesdon, Norwich. 



What offers in micro apparatus for any of the following, all 

 quite new: Weismann's " Studies in the Theory of Descent," 

 2 vols., Martin's " Microscopic Objects Figured and Described," 

 McAlpine's "Life Histories of Plants," Dr. Hamilton's " His- 

 tory of British Fishes," 2 vols., coloured plates, Bowditch's 

 "Suffolk Surnames," Badcock's "Vignettes from Invisible 

 Life." — D. Adamson, 172 Watson Street, Motherwell. 



Wanted, a cabinet for micro slides. State requirements. 

 A collection of foraminifera, consisting of over 100 species, 

 selected and named, offered. — A. Earland, 3 Eton Grove, 

 Lee, S.E. 



Wanted, any dredgings or shore sands containing foramin- 

 ifera. Exchange offered in similar material, or in named and 

 mounted specimens. Duplicates offered : Clavulina parisiensis, 

 var. humilis, Spiroplccta annectens, Lagena lagenoides, var. 

 iennistriata (British specimens), and many other rarities. 

 Send lists. — A. Earland, 3 Eton Grove, Dacre Park, Lee, S.E. 



For exchange, micro slides, various objects. Wanted, Hob- 

 kirk's " Synopsis of British Mosses," Lowe's " British Grasses," 

 and all books relating to grasses and mosses. Also John's 

 " Forest Trees of Britain;" micro slides in exchange. — Ernest 

 O. Meyers, Richmond House, Hounslow, W. 



Wanted, gramineae, mu?ci, and micro fungi from all parts of 

 Britain, in exchange for micro slides. — Ernest O. Meyers, 

 Richmond House, Hounslow, W. 



For exchange, a small collection of British land and fresh- 

 water shells, many rare, also British and foreign marine shells. 

 Wanted, natural history books, micro slides, material and 

 plants. — Ernest O. Meyers, Richmond House, Hounslow, W. 



Science-Gossii', vols. 4-ri, inclusive, wanted; will give 

 liberal exchange in slides, illustrating most branches of micro- 

 scopy.— Fred. Lee Carter, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Mounted or unmounted parasites wanted, in exchange for 

 others, or general slides.— Fred. Lee Carter, Gosforth, New- 

 castle-on-Tyne. 



Foreign correspondents wanted to exchange mic o slides or 

 material. — Fred. Lee Carter, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Will harden and cut the tissues, and send well-mounted 

 slides in return, for physicians' and surgeons' own pathological 

 material. Correspondence invited. — Fred. Lee Carter, Gos- 

 forth, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Offered, "The British Herbal," by Rich. Culpepper, and 

 "Gen. Student in Physic and Astrology," 2 vols., with many 

 coloured plates of plants. Wanted, Woodward's "Geology of 

 England and Wule>," 2nd edition. — J. Smith, Monkredding, 

 Kilwinning. 



Offered, carboniferous limestone fossils for others, or for 

 marine shells. — F. C. King, Bank Villa, Fulwood, Preston. 



Wanted, good British and foreign zoophytes ; must be 

 correctly named, also marine alga? ; good exchange in mounted 

 or unmounted material, micro material, or micro apparatus. 

 State wants and list of above, also what quantity can be 

 supplied. — R. M., 24 Park Road, Clapham, S.W. 



Wanted, ith or ith object glass for microscope, good defini- 

 tion and universal screw, in exchange for sixty-seven species of 

 dried plants collected by the owner on the steppes of Russia, 

 south of Moscow. — G. E. Gavey, 7 Westbourne Villas, West 

 Brighton, Sussex. 



Rare butterflies and moths wanted in exchange for good 

 opera-glass. — John J. Holstead, 19 Millholme Terrace, Upperby 

 Road, Carlisle. 



What offers for the following books? P. H. Gosse's "Year 

 at the Shore" (a leaf replaced by a sheet of note-paper), 

 Lindley's ''School Botany," and "Notes on Collecting and 

 Preserving Natural History Objects," by J. E. Taylor and 

 others, slightly soiled. — J. W. B. Rodgers, c.o. Green and 

 Lloyd's, Cadman Lane, Norfolk Street, Sheffield. 



A good duplicate (nearly complete) of British mosses offered 

 in exchange for foreign mosses, hepaticae or algae especially 

 wanted. Marine alga:, named or not, from any part of the 

 world, or exchange of specimens of these plants. Collectors 

 having any of these to dispose of are requested to write for 

 particulars to — J. Miles, Sudely Place, Kemp Town, Brighton. 



CI. laminata, C. itala, C. lineolata, C. parvu'a, C. plicatula, 

 Cyc. elegans, H. caperata, CI. Rolphii, D. polymorplia, and 

 L. peregra, L. stagnalis, and Auodonta cygnea, and Anatina, 

 from numerous localities, in exchange for Spli. ovale, L. involuta, 

 L. glutiuosa, U. tumidus, T. haliotidea, or Vertigoes. — F. R. 

 Fitzgerald. 



helix aspcrsa, nemoralis and hortensis, in exchange for the 

 same species from other localities. — F. R. Fitzgerald. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



" Fossils of the British Islands," vol. 1, Palaeozoic, by Robt- 

 Etheridge, F.R.S., &c. (Oxford : Clarendon Press). — " Invisible 

 Powers in Nature," byE. M. Caillard (London: John Murray). 

 — "Planetary and Stellar Studies," by J. E. Gore (London: 

 Roper & Drowley). — " Entomology for Beginners," by Dr. 

 A. S. Packard (New York: Holt & Co.).— " Primer of Micro- 

 Petrology," by W. Mawer I London: 4 Essex Street, Strand). 

 — "Class-Book of Elementary Chemistry," by W. W. Fisher 

 (Oxford: CLrendon Press). — "Practical Geometry," by John 

 Carroll (London: Burns & Oates). — "Illustrated Manual of 

 British Birds," Parts 4-7.— " Book Chat."— "The Amateur 

 Photographer." — "The Garner." — "The Naturalist." — "The 

 Botanical Gazette." — "Journal of the New York Microscopical 

 Society." — " Belgravia." — "The Gentleman's Magazine." — 

 "American Monthly Microscopical Journal." — "The Essex 

 Naturalist." — "The Midland Naturalist." — "Feuilles des 

 Jeunes Naturalistes." — " The American Naturalist." — " Journal 

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

 " Scientific News." — " Wesley Naturalist." — " Report of 

 Botanical Exchange Club for 1887." — " Tyneside Review." — 

 "Proceedings of Norwich Science-Gossip Club." — "Address 

 by Dr. C. C. Abbott on Anthropology." — "Trans. Dumfriesshire 

 Nat. Hist, and Antiquarian Soc," &c. &c. 



Communications received up to the 13TH ult. from : 

 G. F.— F. C. L.— C. P.— A. E. W.— J. T. T. R.— J. K.— J. S. 

 — M. L. S.— W. T.— W. A. G.— D. W. B.— J. W.— T. S. M.— 

 L. W. L.— J. H.- W. J. F.— W. H.— A. R. O. S. G.— J. W. 0. 

 — T. D. A. C— J. A. vV.— F. G. F.— S. H.— G. D.— J. W.— 

 W. H. H.— B. T— J. C— W. P.— J. M. H.— H. McB.— J. S. 

 —A. J. O.-F. A. N. B.— J. E.-W. P. H— A. S.— G. T. R. 

 -F. P. P.— A. J. H. C— F. W— F. C. L— Dr. J. W. W.— 

 R. W.— H. W. M— C. J. S. B.— W. E. C— J. W. W.— 

 J. B. B.-E. C— R. S.— R. F.— J. T. T. R.— E. R. F.— 

 W. H. B.— H. F.— F. W. P.— W. H. T.— A. J. R. S.— 

 A. E. M. J. M. C— H. W. H.— D. B.— K. E. S. -W. G. W. 

 _j. s.— J. R. B. M.— E. B.— J. R. F.— N. L— J. W. O.— 

 T. O. A. C— F. G. F.-J. A. W.— A. N. O. S. G.-W. T. B.— 

 N. H.— F. G.— VV. I. F.— R. C— J. G.— F. L. C-W. S. J. S. 

 —J. H. K.— C. A. W.— D. A.— A. E.— A. H. S.— J. H. A. V. 

 — W. M.— R. L.— F. L. T.— H. C. L.— J. G. D.-J. T. M.— 

 H. E.— F. M. H.— E. C. D.— T. H. H.-J. B. B.— J. H.— 

 E. 0. M.— R. W. H.— G. K. G.— W. S— F. G. F.-C. J. S.— 

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

 J. W. B. R.-F. C. K.-W. H.— W. J. S., &c. &c. 



