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HARD WICKE 'S SCIENCE- G OSSIP. 



" Rapin of Gardens," a Latin poem, English'd by M. 

 •Gardiner, in exchange for British birds' eggs ; sea birds espe- 

 •cially. Oftcrs sohcitod.— \V. Wells Bladen, Stone, Staffordsh. 



For well-monnted slide of scale of Dee salmon, splendid 

 polar obiect, ^cnd other good slide ; desideratum, Polycystina. 

 —John k. Marten, Cottage Hospital, Redhill. 



Dupi.iCATE=; (Lepidoptera), V. lo, C. P/Uccas, L. Megcera, 

 If. Semele, C. Cardui, M. Artemis ; desiderata. V. Atalanta, 

 any of the Shecla genus, or what offers ?— W. E. Watkins, 32 

 Huntingdon Street, Barnibury, London, N. 



Canadian plants, insects, shells, bird-skins, skins of 

 mammals, &c., in exchange for English species.— W. G. A. 

 Birdie, 325 Parliament Street, Toronto. 



For slides, starch from Calabar bean (polar), and parasite of 

 pig [HiEinatfl/iinus Suis], send other slides or material.— Linden, 

 New Brompton, Kent. 



AnouT 140 British birds' eggs, including guillemot, lesser 

 black-backed gull, lapwing, carrion crow, jackdaw, magpie, 

 pheasant, partridge, moorhen, stockdove, and many others, in 

 • exchange for good telescope, microscope, or opera glass. — 

 Henry Porter, Goxhill, Lincolnshire. 



Offeked, about 400 fossils, chiefly carboniferous. Wanted, 

 a good second-hand microscope.— J. A. H., 70 Helena Street, 

 Burnley, Lancashire. 



A FEW duplicate slides of Holothurian (plates and skin), 

 Crantia compressa, Halichondria incfitstans. Desmacidon 

 ■ tega^rofiila, &c. Wanted, British marine shells, or mounted 

 m'olluscan palates. — Dr. Keegan, Holywood, near Belfast. 



Wanted, L. C, 7th ed., 349, 377. 388, 58°. 613, 1035, and 

 others. Can offer good specimens of 273b, 317, 556, 557, 594, 

 1635. and many others, in exchange. Send lists.— A. W. Preston, 

 St. Philip's Road, Norwich. 



Wanted, old prints, engravings (small), sketches or early 

 MSS. ; will give wrought flints.— G. Clinch, Rowe's Farm, 

 Hayes, Kent. 



Large aquarium, 2 X 2 X 4 ft., slate ends and bed ; plate 

 slass, on polished oak stand. Holds about 100 gallons. 

 .Suitable for public institution or naturalist, cost about_ ;^I4. 

 Exchange scientific or standard books, treadle lathe or offers. — 

 H. H., 8 St. Mark's Road, Wolverhampton. 



For exchange, a limited number of slides of parasite of fly 

 Ulyfioptts tnuscarinii], also other parasites. Communicate 

 before sending any slides. —W. A. Hyslop, 22 Palmerston 

 Place, Edinburgh. 



Wanted, two hawkweeds, //. calenduUJJ oruvi ^^nA floccu- 

 -losuiii. Offered, the choice of many and great rarities, British 

 and foreign. — R. Wood, Westward, Wigton. 



Wanted, in exchange for other works, Science-Gossip, Nos. 

 175-189 inclusive. — -W. Macmillan, Castle Cary, Somerset. 



Anatomical and pathological slides, material or sections ; 

 entozoa and ectozoa, diatoms ; for parasites and other slides 

 or material of interest. — F. L. Carter, 20 Trafalgar Street, 

 Neivcastle-on-Tyne. 



A polished pine cabinet, six drawers, graduating in depth 

 with 110 divisions, suitable for shells, birds' eggs, stones, &c. ; 

 will exchange for small microscopic-cabinet, or well-mounted 

 .slides, books, or apparatus. Also about eighty eggs, some rare, 

 with or without the above ; a list of the eggs sent on application. 

 — H. R. S., 10 Avenue Road, Regent's Park, London. 



Vv?M of Furcula, Vinula, Dictsea, Ziczac, Quercus, and fine 

 series of .S". fopuli. Wanted, birds' eggs or other objects. — 

 R. McAldowie, 4 Brook Street, Stoke-on-Trent. 



Two vols, of " Chronicles of Eri," by O'Connor, pub. 1822 ; 

 " Gravitation," i vol., by G. B. Airy, 1834; "Travels of Mo- 

 deen," i vol., by J. E. Alexander, 1827 ; all in good condi- 

 tion. Will exchange for works on management of the microscope, 

 and a fair collection of mounted microscopical slides, or what 

 offers? — W. J. Hooper, Hermine Cottage, East St., Chatham. 



I HAVE four years of Science-Gossip complete, unbound — 

 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881 — for exchange. — H. C. Ransome, Stoke 

 Hall, Ipswich. 



Miocene foraminifeka (named), large species, and mounted 

 sections of spongilla, &c., offered for foraminifera, polycystines, 

 diatoms, &c. (mounted or material). — Dr. Rudolf Haeusler, 

 Dedham, Essex. 



A PACKET of twelve immounted micro objects sent in ex- 

 change for a well-mounted slide. — Fairmount, 153 Breakspears 

 Road, Brockley, S.E. 



Millek's " Chemistry," 2 vols., published at 40^-., nearly new ; 

 Science-Gossip 1877, 1879, 1880, unsoiled, uniformly bound ; 

 Tyndall's " Fragments" in one vol. — W. Jacobs, 41 Macfarlane 

 Road, Shepherd's Bush, W. 



Unmounted material (echinus, &c.), offered for anatomical 

 slides. — B., 9 Royal Terrace, W. Kingstown. 



Wanted, "Popular Science Review" for 1881. — Dr. 

 Cunynghame, 6 Walker Street, Edinburgh. 



Wanted to exchange, a 50-in. bicycle. Singers' "Challenge," 

 for a microscope or works and objects on natural history. — 

 S. B. Axford, 15 Commercial Road, Bournemouth. 



Wanted, last edition of " Hogg on the Microscope," also 

 good slides. Can offer several varieties gorgonias, spicules, 

 starches, hairs, &c. — J. E. Fawcett, Rawdon, near Leeds. 



What exchange for fine copy of Prichard's "Man," 2 vols., 

 62 coloured plates, 1855 ?— B., 9 Royal Terrace, W. Kingstown. 



LoN. Cat., Nos. 275, 315, 394, 626, 653, 667, 657, 843, 862, 

 1271, 1276, also Rubi and Rosa; varieties and others, in ex- 

 change for rare or local British plants. Lists to J. R. Neve, 

 Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. 



Will exchange several good mounted slides of hairs, Indian 

 bat, spicules, photographs, &c., for others, physiological 

 injected ones preferred.— S., 3 Cobden Place, Leeds. 



Will exchange good case of dissecting instruments, also a 

 surgical instrument case, for Cole's series of physiological 

 injection slides. — S., 3 Cobden Place, Leeds. 



For exchange, lo-in. plate electrical machine, with various 

 apparatus for experiments, &c. ; wanted, micro-slides and 

 material, air-pump, or ofiers. — T. E. Jobling, Coxledge 

 Colliery, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



What offers for 1858, 1859, 1S60, of "The Proceedings of 

 the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London," 

 with illustrations, unsoiled and unbound? Also 42 numbers of 

 "The Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells," by G. B. Sowerby, 

 with original plates (coloured), unsoiled and unbound.— John 

 Boggust, jun., Alton, Hants. 



Wanted, a case of minerals and fossils to illustrate Lyell's 

 " Manual ;" will exchange a large unmounted albatross, Cas- 

 sells' "History of England" (calf); Bain's "Education;" 

 physiological slides. — W. N., 37 Flaxman Street, Liverpool. 



Good plants of AsJ>lenitiin tauceolatntn and Gymnogramme 

 leptopliylla offered for well-dried fronds of Ceterach officinalis 

 and O. regalis, or plants of the former. — J. Sinel, Bagot, 

 Jersey. 



Duplicates, Opiu-ys apifera, Potetitilla fruticflsa, Malaxis 

 paludosa, Goodycra ripens, Alchcinilla alpiiia. Shells, 

 CyprcFa aselhts, C. helvola, Neritina viridis, Strigila carnaria, 

 Oliva luteola, Cobiiiihella inercatoria, 'J'cllina radiata, Apo- 

 rhais pes-pelica)tns, Buliiniis acutus. — Rev. J. M. Hick, Stain- 

 drop, Darlington. 



'^ KiiT¥,\n, Fittpiira lapillus, freshly-killed animal as well as 

 shell. Dried specimens of ^cor^^i- Calanutt, Nigelia sativa, 

 Loliutn tevailentum, exchange. — Tunley, Albert Road, 

 Southsea. 



Swiss, Pyrenean, and Mediterranean plants (including 

 grasses, carices, &c.). A magnificent collection of the above 

 for sale at kd. each, all named and dried. The Swiss flora is 

 especially complete. — Dr. B., care of Editor, 3 St. Martin's 

 Place, Trafalgar Square, London, W.C. 



BOOKS. ETC., RECEIVED. 



"The Microscope." By G. Davies. London: D. Bogue. 



" Life, Letters, and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart." 

 2 vols. London: John Murray. 



" Easy Star Lessons." By R. A. Proctor. London : Chatto 

 & Windus. 



"Leaves from a Naturalist's Note-Book." By Andrew 

 Wilson, F.R.S.E. London : Chatto & Windus. 



"Practical Chemistry." By J. Howard. .London: W.Col- 

 lins, Sons, & Co. 



"The Home Journal." 



"Journal of Applied Science." 



" Union Jack Naturalist." 



" The Antiquary." 



"Midland Naturalist." 



" Northern Microscopist." 



" Land and Water." 



" Ben Brierley's Journal." 



"Natural History Notes." 



" American Naturalist." 



" Canadian Entomologist." 



"Goud Health." 



" Cosmos, les Mondes." 



" Science pour Tons." 



" Le Monde de la Science." 



" Les Feuilles de Jeunes Naturalistes." 

 &c. &c. &c. 



Communications received up to 9TH ult. from: — 

 G. M.— J. A. H.— W. E. W.— H. W.— E. T. S.— M. H. B.— 

 H. B. L.— E. L.— W. W. B.— E. H.— J. R. M.— A. M. McA.— 

 I. S.-R. S.— Dr. K.— R. McA.— C. F. W. T. W.— A. R. S.— 

 "W. A. G.— A. M.— X. F.-W. M.— R. W.-J. R.— C. V. R. 

 _G. F. W.— F. F.— F. L. C.-J. C.-G. D.— W. J. H.-G.— 

 W. A. H.-A. W. P.-H. H.-G. S. G.-J. A. W. O.— T. W. 

 — T. E T— P. J. S.— J. R. N.-P. M. C. K.-F. N. H.— 

 F. H. S.-W. N.-W. H. T.-A.W.-A. M.C-J. S.-T. E.J. 

 -W. J.-S. B. A.— D. B.-G. T.-M. E. P.— J. B. M.- 

 J. B., jun.-J. R.-W. T. G.-J. M. H.-H. P.-J. M. F.- 

 W. E. D.-E. H.-W. G.-P. B.— J. H.-P. B.-A. B.— 

 C E. K.— T. B.— F. F. G.— C C. A.— J. F.— A.L.-C B. M. 

 -H. B.-C. C. A.— W. S. A. B.-S. S. H.-O. W. J.— &c. 



