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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



I HAVE about looo beetles and other fine insects which I 

 desire to exchange in lots of 50 and upwards for good specimens 

 of minerals and fossils ; also cocoons of fine American moths 

 fur perfect English butterflies and moths.— Fletcher M. Nod, 

 130 East New York Street, Indianapolis, Ind. 



Wanted, specimens of the different species of parasite found 

 on the swallow, also those on bats. Advantageous exchange in 

 microscope slides offered. — W. A. Hyslop, 22 Falmerston Place, 

 Edinburgh. 



First three vols, of ChaUciiger Report, nearly new and 

 uncut, cost ;{^6 17.?. 6(/. ; exchange to the value of ^2. Wanted, 

 good electrical machine and apparatus.^E. Evans, Brims- 

 combe, Gloucester. 



Wanted, a mounted slide, unstained, of Trichina spiralis in 

 or out of muscle ; also head of tapeworm, mounted, or fluke. 

 Will give in exchange a recipe for writing upon glass or stamp- 

 ing name upon slides. — A. Smith, The Laboratory, Essex Road, 

 London. 



For foraminiferous sand send stamped directed envelope and 

 some other interesting object. — M., 38 Park Road, Clapham, 

 S.W. 



Pilcofisis Hungariczts in exchange for other good marine 

 shells not in collection. Send list.— E. Matthews, 20 Lenthall 

 Road, Dalston, London. 



Hawkins's " Comparative View of the Animal and Human 

 Frame" offered in exchange for Bristow's "Manual of Mine- 

 ralogy" or other works on mineralogy or geology.— J. E. 

 Westby, 83 Barber Road, Sheffield. 



Eggs of golden-winged woodpecker and red-winged starling 

 (side blown). Desiderata, other good eggs, or micro slides. — 

 James Ingleby, Eavestone, near Ripon. 



Leg oi Lytta z/i'izVrt/o^-z'i7 (Blister beetlel, &c., in exchange 

 for other well-mounted slides. — John R. Marten, Cottage 

 Hospital, Red Hill. 



Greenhouse and other plants offered in exchange for any- 

 thing interesting to an amateur microscopist and naturalist. — 

 J. M. Linden, New Brompton, Kent. 



Well-mounted slides of anchors of Synapia GaUie7i>iia, 

 selected and arranged in pattern, in exchange for good gather- 

 ing of PUitrosigina formosiun. — W. White, 7 Warden Place, 

 Nottingham. 



Wanted, Bell's " Stalk-eyed Crustacea," Gosse's " Natu- 

 ralist's Sojourn in Jamaica," Johnston's " Zoophytes," Ralfs' 

 " Desmidieae," Westwood's "Crustacea," Smith's "Diato- 

 macea Student" (s vols.), and other works on natural history 

 in exchange for Leighton's "Lichen Flora," Burmeister's 

 "Manual of Entomology," Rymer Jones's "Aquarium Natu- 

 ralist," &C. — C. A. Grimes, Dover. 



Collection of 150 named fossils to exchange for birds' eggs 

 or books, &c. James Ellison, Steeton, Leeds. 



Mounted slides and micro material, diatoms in situ, &c., 

 exchanged by list for micro slides or material illustrative of 

 geology or marine zoology. — W. Gray, Mount Charles, Belfast. 

 Wanted, British and other recent shells in good condition, 

 correctly named. Have to offer in exchange 420 good dried 

 specimen of ferns, representing as many species, and not less 

 than 38 genera, including Trichomaties hymeiiophyllum, Pteris 

 7iep]irodiuin, Angiopteris todea, &c. ; also 40 species of eocene 

 shells from the Paris basin, in good condition, named. — S. E. 

 Richie, 2 Longley Road, Tooting, London. 



Will exchange the following living plants, for good correctly- 

 named mollusca : — 0?-chis spectahilis. Orchis foliosa, Osinar- 

 rhiza Jiuda, Mimtdus ri}!ge>is, Spira-a pahnaia, Harpaliimi 

 rigidum, Aftemone Japouica alba, Primula capital a, Senecio 

 piilcJier, and others. List sent. — S. E. Richie, 2 Longley Road, 

 Tooting, London. 



Birds' eggs (side blown), spotted eagle, asprey, peregrine, 

 merlin, great bustard, phalarope, Iceland gull, avocet, bittern, 

 kite, buzzard, and hawk owl. — John Egglcston, Park Place, 

 Sunderland. 



Lei'IDOitera, duplicates, crata;gi, daplidice, napi, sinapis, 

 hyale, sibylla, callum, latharia, iris, atropos, convolvuli, fraxini, 

 hera, &c., exchange for other natural history objects. — John 

 Eggleston, Park Place, Sunderland. 



Science-Gossip for 1866, 1867, 1868, bound in one volume, 

 Quekett's " Histology," and other scientific books for offers. 

 Want vol. i. of Cassell's " Magazine of Art." — R. Smith, 

 30 Great Russell Street, Bedford Square, W. 



Stark's " British Mosses," with plates (nearly new), for 

 portal le microscopical cabinet with horizontal trays. — S., 

 63 Lcit;h Street, Warrington. 



I shall be glad to exchange specimens of plants and insects 

 peculiar to Manchester and the neighbourhood, for correspond- 

 ing specimens from other parts of the British Isles, or from 

 foreign places. — J. A. Tooner, Eltham Bank, Levenshulme, 

 Manchester. 



Wanted, microscopical pond life, or other good offers for 

 beautiful mounted slides of diatoms, spicules, crystals, pollens,&c. 

 —Edmund A. Rice, 2 Malvern Villa, The Uplands, Stroud, 

 Gloucester. 



Wanted, Splachinan vascidosnm, Dicramim virens 

 Mnium zoidulatnm in fruit, Phascum, Andrcca riipesiris. — 

 Mrs. Bishop, the Platts, Watford. 



Birds' eggs for others: mottled owl, wheatear, red-winged 

 starling, meadow starling, hooded crow, hairy woodpecker, 

 downy woodpecker, golden-winged woodpecker, yellow-billed 

 ruckoo, black-billed cuckoo, belted kingfisher, capercailzie 

 Virginian colin, spotted sandpiper, night heron, Canada goose, 

 Egyptian goose, eider-duck, puffin, guillemot, Arctic tern 

 (Shetland), sooty tern, kittiwake, herring gull, lesser and 

 greater black-backed gull, fork-tailed petrel, and sixty other 

 species. Please send list of duplicates to Ralph Turnbull 

 8 Cemetery Road, Crewe. 



Well-mounted slides of Eno's Fruit Salt and other crystals 

 for the polariscope, in exchange for other slides or unmounted 

 material. — Hazelnut, 33 Tresco Road, Nunhead, S.E. 



Nicely mounted foreign plants and " Midland Naturalist" 



complete, in exchange for microscopic slides or books. 



95 Barbury Street, Birmingham. 



Wanted, good entomological, physiological, and other'slides, 

 for slides of foraminifera from chalk, and a number of others, 

 all well mounted. Send list first to W. West, 15 Horton Lane 

 Bradford. 



What offers for monocular micYoscope in good working order, 

 with I in. 4 in. and J ? Objectives, by first makers, also con- 

 denser on stand. Double mirror, pine cabinet with drawers for 

 objects. Also sixty beautiful mounted slides of diatoms, crystals, 

 pollens, &.C., or good offers in live stock. For particulars apply 

 to Edmund Price, 2 Malvern Villa, The Uplands, Stroud, 

 Gloucester. 



Four volumes of Hardwicke's Science-Gossip not bound, 

 1878 to 188 1, would exchange for side-blown one-hole British 

 bird eggs or lepidoptera. — F. J. Rasell, 30 A.rgyle Street, 

 St. James' End, Northampton. 



Universal Fire-clay Furnace (Griffin's), for chemical opera- 

 tions, &c., complete with mufile, retort, and tube-rings, sand- 

 bath, blower, &c. &c. Will exchange for good microscopic 

 cabinet or offers to T. E. Jobling, Coxlodge Colliery, New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne. 



Wanted, in exchange for well-mounted slides of Podura, 

 Diatomaceae, &c., deposits containing diatomaceae, polycystina 

 or foraminifera. 



Wanted, natterjack, snakes, lizards (foreign or English) ; also 

 foreign frogs ; also live weasel. For hairs unmounted send 

 object of interest (not microscopical) to H. C. Brooke, Sutton 

 Valence Grammar School, Staplehurst, Kent. 



By 

 Kegan 

 Kegan 

 Feb. 



BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED. 



"The Geology of the Counties of England and Wales." 

 W. J. Harrison, F.G.S. London : Kelly & Co. 



"Myth and Science." By Tito Vignoli. London: 

 Paul & Co. 



"The Sun." By C. A. Young, Ph.D. London: 

 Paul & Co. 



".Transactions of the Roj^al Microscopical Society." » „„. 



"Annual Report of the Dulwich College Scientific Society." 



" Proceedings of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science." 



" Land and Water." 



"Animal World." 



" Journal of Applied Science." 



"Natural History Notes." 



" Northern Microscopist." 



"Midland Naturalist." 



" Ben Brierley's Journal." 



" American Naturalist." 



" Good Health." 



" Boston Journal of Chemistry." 



" La Science pour Tons." 



" Cosmos : les Mondes." 



" Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes." 



" Ciel et Terre." 



&c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to iith ult. from: — 

 C. A. G.— E. H.— R. T.— J. S.— J. F.— E. T. D.— R. C— J. A. 

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

 J. M.— J. R. M.— J. I.— M. N. F.— E. M.— H. L.— G. H.— 

 G.'S.— H. M. S.— J. G. S.— H. I. P.— J. B.— J. E.-J. E — 

 J. B.— W. G.— J. W.-N. B.— W. H. W.— M. E. W.— S. E. R. 

 _j. R.— W. J.-E. B.— F. B. J.— J. H.S.— T. B. R.— W. D.S. 

 — F. W.— J. B.— A. W. P.— A. J. N. W.-F.-J. McA.— E. L. 

 — T. W.-G. H. P.— C. D. W.— J. H.-E. L. A.— T. D.— 

 Dr. K.— W. K. M.— J. B.— A. S.— C. F. W.— G. S.-W. A. P. 

 — E. E. E.— G. H. B.— B. B. B.-W. A. H.— H. M. S.— 

 J. H. W.— E. P.— T. E. J.-J. H.— H. H. C.-T. P.D -H. B, 

 — E. P. D.-F. J. R.— F. H. P.— C. D— J. H. W.— C. G.— 

 M. E.-C. S. B.-W. W.— a. M. P.-G. J. W.-W. W. B.— 

 W^ D.— F. C.-R. S.-C. P.— E. P.-A. S.-J, A, T.— Sic. 



